Scholarships Advancing Mercer STEM Students (SAMS)

推进美世STEM学生奖学金（SAMS）将为在美世县社区学院（MCCC）表现出经济需求的全日制STEM学生提供120个奖学金。该计划的具体目标是为表现出经济需求的学术天赋学生提供奖学金，以便他们能够成功毕业和/或转学到STEM领域的四年制机构。新泽西州中部社区将受益于STEM劳动力毕业生质量和数量的提高。SAMS计划的目标是：1)在资助期间保留至少75%的学者；2) 50%的学者是STEM学科中代表性不足的少数民族或女性；3)招收全日制学生，以队列形式参与干预和咨询项目，并鼓励其在项目的第二年参与本科研究或作为同伴导师进行培训；4) 75%的学生成功地从mcc毕业或转到STEM领域。额外的招聘和留校活动的亮点是：高中暑期桥梁项目，每周一次的关注大学成功和转学策略的队列会议，一对一的指导，每周一次的STEM入门课程复习会议，STEM研讨会之后的重点讨论，本科研究报告和同行辅导认证。该项目将被设计为一个为期两年的选择性项目，为一群学生提供国家认可的战略，以促进STEM的成功。就更广泛的影响而言，为有经济需求的学生提供奖学金机会将提高STEM项目的保留率、转学率和毕业率。低收入少数族裔学生和退伍军人将成为STEM奖学金项目的重点。拟议中的项目将帮助学生为就业和/或转入STEM领域的四年制课程做好准备。

Scholarships for Advancing Mercer STEM Students (SAMS) will provide 120 scholarships for full-time STEM students who have demonstrated financial need at Mercer County Community College (MCCC). The specific goal of this program will be to provide scholarships for academically talented students who have demonstrated financial need so that they can successfully graduate and/or transfer to a 4-year institution in a STEM field. The central New Jersey community will benefit from the increased quality and numbers of graduates for the STEM workforce.The objectives of the SAMS program will be to: 1) retain at least 75% of the scholars for the duration of the grant; 2) have 50% of the scholars be underrepresented minorities (URMs) or women in STEM disciplines; 3) have the scholars be enrolled full-time, participate in intervention and advising programs as a cohort, and be encouraged to participate in undergraduate research or be trained as a peer-tutor in their second year of the program; and 4) have 75% of the scholars successfully graduate or transfer from MCCC in the field of STEM. Highlights of additional recruitment and retention activities are: a high school summer bridge program, weekly cohort meetings focusing on college success and transfer strategies, one-on-one mentoring, weekly review sessions in STEM gateway courses, STEM seminars with focused discussion afterwards, undergraduate research with a presentation and peer-tutoring with certification. The program will be designed as a two-year selective program for a cohort of students featuring nationally recognized strategies to promote STEM success.In terms of the broader impacts, providing scholarship opportunities to students who have demonstrated financial need will increase the retention rate as well as transfer and graduation rates in STEM programs. Low-income minority students and veterans will be a focus for the STEM scholarship program. The proposed project will help students prepare for employment and/or transfer to four-year programs in the STEM fields.