GP:EXTRA - Engaging Community College Students in Undergraduate Research

GP:EXTRA - 让社区学院的学生参与本科研究

• 批准号: 1801658
• 负责人: Ardi Kveven
• 金额: $ 33.37万
• 依托单位: Everett Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801658&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; EXTRA; Engaging; Community; College

The primary goal of this GP-EXTRA project is to increase the number of dually enrolled high school students at Everett Community College's Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) who identify an interest in pursuing a geosciences baccalaureate degree upon earning their high school diploma. Through targeted, oceanographic research experiences with private and governmental collaborators during the summer that continues into the academic year, this project will increase the number of high school seniors professing an interest in pursuing a geoscience major in university. Research experiences are effective in attracting and retaining students in STEM fields, and this project seeks to embed collaboration and mentoring. Mentoring for and by women increases the likelihood of changing the longstanding culture in STEM, where competition is valued over cooperation and collaboration. This approach enhances access for underserved students in STEM: women, students of color and low income students.Through the deployment of remote monitoring CTD instrumentation and deliberate mentoring by the ORCA faculty/staff and practicing geoscientists from three different employment sectors during the summer, ten students annually will experience field work, monitoring instrumentation and management of the data stream. This experience will form the basis for students to generate further testable questions while receiving research support by the project team and scientific collaborators during the academic year along with financial support. Students will demonstrate their transition to independent researchers through showcasing their research at geoscience conferences, and regional events. Summer research experiences represent an effective mechanism to retain undergraduate students once they are in the STEM pipeline, but less understood is the impact a summer research experience has on high school seniors as a motivator for declaration of a specific STEM major. By providing exposure to all aspects of a geoscience career, with special attention given to the influence of collaboration, relationship building and mentoring, this project will contribute to an understanding of how to embed research into dual enrollment coursework and which aspects are the most impactful. This project also advances knowledge specific to the Puget Sound which remains an understudied estuary. Local understanding of complex systems is a result of in-situ deployments, which rarely provide the long-term data stream that this project will create. Recent, drastic temperature spikes in the area require year round monitoring. Engaging high school students underrepresented in geosciences in the hands-on deployment of real-time instruments, giving them access to utilize and distill the complicated data stream and share these data with others represents powerful, confidence building opportunities for students as they increase community connections. The broader impacts of this project will provide further opportunities for students to showcase their work, both locally, nationally, and internationally, building their confidence and the opportunity view themselves as scientists. Engaging dually enrolled students in authentic research optimizes the intent to maximize the personal involvement in creating new knowledge. Since data is telemetered live online, anyone has access to it. This provides pride of ownership by the students, who will then further engage in problems that require innovative solutions to benefit society as a whole.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个GP-Extra项目的主要目标是增加埃弗雷特社区学院海洋研究学院(ORCA)双重招生的高中生数量，这些高中生在获得高中文凭后有兴趣攻读地球科学学士学位。通过在夏季期间与私人和政府合作者进行有针对性的海洋研究体验，该项目将持续到学年，将增加声称有兴趣在大学攻读地球科学专业的高三学生人数。研究经验在吸引和留住STEM领域的学生方面是有效的，该项目寻求嵌入协作和指导。对妇女的指导和由妇女提供的指导增加了改变STEM长期文化的可能性，在STEM中，竞争比合作更重要。这种方法增加了STEM中服务不足的学生的机会：女性、有色人种学生和低收入学生。通过部署远程监测CTD仪器，以及ORCA教职员工和来自三个不同就业部门的执业地球科学家在夏季进行有意的指导，每年将有10名学生体验实地工作、监测仪器和数据流管理。这一经历将为学生生成进一步的可测试问题奠定基础，同时在学年期间获得项目团队和科学合作者的研究支持以及财政支持。学生将通过在地球科学会议和地区性活动中展示他们的研究来展示他们向独立研究人员的过渡。暑期研究经验代表了一种有效的机制，可以在本科生进入STEM专业后留住他们，但人们较少了解暑期研究经验对高三学生的影响，因为暑期研究经验是一种激励因素，促使他们选择特定的STEM专业。通过接触地球科学事业的所有方面，特别注意协作、关系建设和指导的影响，该项目将有助于理解如何将研究纳入双重招生课程以及哪些方面影响最大。该项目还促进了关于普吉特湾的专门知识，普吉特湾仍然是一个研究不足的河口。对复杂系统的本地理解是现场部署的结果，现场部署很少提供该项目将创建的长期数据流。最近，该地区的气温急剧上升，需要进行全年监测。让地球科学领域中代表性不足的高中生参与实时仪器的实际部署，使他们能够利用和提取复杂的数据流并与他人共享这些数据，这对学生来说是一个强大的、建立信任的机会，因为他们增加了社区联系。这个项目的更广泛的影响将为学生提供更多的机会来展示他们的工作，无论是在当地、国家还是国际上，建立他们的信心，并有机会将自己视为科学家。让双重注册的学生参与真实的研究，最大限度地发挥个人参与创造新知识的意图。由于数据是在线实时遥测的，任何人都可以访问它。这为学生提供了所有权的自豪感，他们将进一步参与到需要创新解决方案来造福整个社会的问题中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。