Travel Grant: MESA USA National Engineering Competition

旅费补助：MESA 美国国家工程竞赛

• 批准号: 1737748
• 负责人: Jamie Bracey
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737748&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Grant; MESA; USA; National

Diversifying STEM is a national priority in which the United States' government has devoted immense resources. Because of this priority, many coalitions and consortia have been developed, involving major foundations, companies, universities, and organizations, to increase student access, engagement, and success in engineering and other STEM-related fields. Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) USA is a national consortium, founded to focus on increasing diversity in STEM careers by providing underrepresented, secondary students with high-quality engineering and science education experiences. For nearly 50 years, this consortium has been recognized as a national model for promoting inclusion and equity in STEM. One of MESA's signature activities is its annual National Engineering Design Challenge. The main objective of this grant proposal is to create a Travel Grant Program for MESA USA, high school participants to attend the annual challenge in 2018 and 2019. The national competition is the culminating event, held annually in June and attended by many state delegations: a middle school team (4 students/1 teacher), a high school team (4 students/1 teacher), state MESA director and members of the national Engineering Design Challenge planning committee.More than 50 percent of MESA USA students come from disadvantaged, first-generation or English as a second language backgrounds, where there are few immediate family members or key adults to foster, support, and/or transmit their engineering career outlook. The proposed travel grant will presents an opportunity for MESA USA students to share and present their passion for engineering by attending and competing in the National Engineering Design challenge and without the struggle and difficulty of finding the needed financial resources to attend such a meeting.

STEM多元化是美国政府投入大量资源的国家优先事项。由于这一优先事项，许多联盟和财团已经发展，涉及主要基金会，公司，大学和组织，以增加学生的机会，参与和工程和其他STEM相关领域的成功。数学，工程和科学成就（梅萨）美国是一个全国性的财团，成立的重点是通过提供高质量的工程和科学教育经验的代表性不足，中学生增加STEM职业的多样性。近50年来，该联盟一直被公认为促进STEM包容和公平的国家典范。梅萨的标志性活动之一是其年度国家工程设计挑战赛。这项赠款提案的主要目标是为梅萨USA创建一个旅行赠款计划，高中参与者参加2018年和2019年的年度挑战。全国比赛是最高级别的活动，每年6月举行，许多州代表团参加：中学校队（4名学生/1名教师），高中团队（4名学生/1名教师），国家梅萨主任和国家工程设计挑战计划委员会成员。超过50%的梅萨美国学生来自弱势群体，第一代或英语作为第二语言背景，几乎没有直系亲属或关键成年人来培养、支持和/或传播他们的工程职业前景。拟议的旅行补助金将为梅萨USA学生提供一个机会，通过参加和参加国家工程设计挑战赛来分享和展示他们对工程的热情，而无需寻找参加此类会议所需的财务资源的斗争和困难。