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）证明经济需要的全日制STEM学生提供120个奖学金。该计划的具体目标是为那些表现出经济需求的学术天才学生提供奖学金，以便他们能够成功毕业和/或转入STEM领域的4年制院校。 中央新泽西社区将受益于提高质量和STEM劳动力的毕业生人数。SAMS计划的目标将是：1）保留至少75%的学者的补助金期间; 2）有50%的学者是代表性不足的少数民族（URM）或STEM学科的妇女; 3）让学者全职入学，作为一个队列参加干预和咨询计划，并鼓励他们参加本科研究或在计划的第二年接受同行导师的培训; 4）75%的学者成功地从MCCC毕业或转入STEM领域。其他招聘和保留活动的亮点是：高中夏桥计划，每周一次的队列会议，重点是大学的成功和转移策略，一对一的指导，STEM网关课程的每周审查会议，STEM研讨会，之后有重点的讨论，本科研究与演示和同行辅导与认证。该计划将被设计为一个为期两年的选择性计划，为一批学生提供国家认可的战略，以促进STEM的成功。在更广泛的影响方面，为有经济需要的学生提供奖学金机会将提高STEM课程的留存率以及转学率和毕业率。低收入少数族裔学生和退伍军人将成为STEM奖学金计划的重点。 拟议的项目将帮助学生准备就业和/或转入STEM领域的四年制课程。

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.