GP:EXTRA - Engaging Community College Students in Undergraduate Research

这个GP-EXTRA项目的主要目标是增加在埃弗雷特社区学院海洋研究学院（ORCA）双录取高中学生的数量，这些学生在获得高中文凭后，确定有兴趣攻读地球科学学士学位。通过在夏季与私人和政府合作伙伴进行有针对性的海洋学研究，该项目将持续到学年，这将增加对在大学攻读地球科学专业感兴趣的高中毕业生的数量。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。为女性提供指导和由女性提供指导增加了改变STEM领域长期文化的可能性，在这种文化中，竞争比合作和协作更重要。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的精心指导，每年有10名学生将体验现场工作，监测仪器和数据流管理。这一经历将为学生提供进一步测试问题的基础，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经济支持。学生们将通过在地球科学会议和区域活动上展示他们的研究成果，展示他们向独立研究人员的转变。暑期研究经历是一种有效的机制，一旦他们进入STEM管道，就可以留住本科生，但很少有人了解暑期研究经历对高中毕业生宣布特定STEM专业的影响。通过提供地球科学职业生涯的各个方面，特别关注合作、关系建立和指导的影响，该项目将有助于理解如何将研究嵌入双招生课程，以及哪些方面最有影响力。该项目还推进了对普吉特海湾的特定知识，该海湾仍然是一个研究不足的河口。对复杂系统的局部理解是原位部署的结果，它很少提供该项目将创建的长期数据流。最近，该地区气温急剧上升，需要全年监测。让在地球科学领域代表性不足的高中生参与实时仪器的实际部署，让他们能够利用和提炼复杂的数据流，并与他人分享这些数据，这对学生来说是一个强大的、建立信心的机会，因为他们增加了社区联系。这个项目的广泛影响将为学生提供更多的机会来展示他们在当地、全国和国际上的工作，建立他们的信心，并有机会将自己视为科学家。让双录取的学生参与真实的研究，可以最大限度地提高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，然后他们将进一步参与需要创新解决方案的问题，以造福整个社会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.