The Impact of Making and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科生计划（HBCU-UP）支持旨在提高HBCU科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学生和教师的研究能力的会议。美国科学促进会（AAAS）将组织两次创新展示，为HBCU的学生和教师提供实施和展示技术原型的机会。此外，AAAS还将进行一项评估研究，探索与制造商相关的活动对学生、教师和机构的影响。该展示会将于2018年2月和2019年2月在华盛顿，DC. HBCU使创新展示的目标是鼓励和支持更多的有色人种学生参与STEM相关的创新和创业活动。 为了实现这一目标，AAAS将支持至少15个学生团队参加HBCU创新展示，为学生提供以创新为重点的展示培训，并记录和传播机构创新活动的实施情况。通过这个项目，学生将使用硬件和软件创建原型，以解决联合国17个可持续发展目标之一。制作和创新展示将使AAAS能够促进HBCU校园的创新和制作，并提供一个平台来调查这些机构支持和维持制作和创新的方式。将使用定量和定性研究方法研究这些活动的影响。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) supports conferences that seek to increase the research capacity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and faculty at HBCUs. The American Association For Advancement Science (AAAS) will organize two Making & Innovation Showcases to provide students and faculty from HBCUs with an opportunity to implement and present technology prototypes. Additionally, AAAS will conduct an evaluation research study exploring the impact of maker-related activities on students, faculty, and institutions. The showcases will be held in February 2018 and February 2019 jointly with the Emerging Researchers National Conference in Washington, DC.The goal of the HBCU Making & Innovation Showcases is to encourage and support increased participation in STEM-related innovation and entrepreneurship activities by students of color. To meet this goal, AAAS will support at least fifteen student teams to participate in the HBCU Making & Innovation Showcases, provide students with innovation-focused training at the showcases, and document and disseminate the implementation of innovation activities at the institutions. Through this project, students will create prototypes using hardware and software to address one of the seventeen sustainable development goals of the United Nations. The Making and Innovation Showcases will enable AAAS to promote innovation and making on HBCU campuses and provide a platform to investigate the ways in which making and innovation are supported and sustained at these institutions. The impact of the activities will be studied using quantitative and qualitative research methods.