Frederick Community College STEM Scholars

NSF科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划支持弗雷德里克社区学院表现出经济需求的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业。在整个5年中，该项目将资助30个奖学金，分为3组，每组10名正在攻读STEM学科副学士学位的学生。该计划将为这些学者提供所需的资源和支持，以确定适当的STEM相关的学术和职业途径，并全职致力于实现与他们选择的途径相关的目标。该项目将满足培养更多学生成为STEM专业人员的需求。 通过财政支持，教师指导，接触研究，行业经验以及与STEM相关的社区服务机会，学生将不仅成为STEM学生，而且成为进入一门学科的专业人士和强大的STEM社区的成员。该项目将寻求为如何提高学生入学率和成功提供新的理解（保留，完成和/或转移）使用STEM奖学金基金和学生干预。该项目的研究将建立在并扩展之前的研究，围绕使用奖学金和跨学科研讨会增加STEM入学率，STEM专业的保留模式以及完整的美国大学确定的学生干预的最佳实践。 沿着这些活动，演讲系列，实地考察，服务学习机会和其他课外活动将由STEM学者计划创建，以帮助创建一个队列身份。通过访谈和调查，该计划，以确定该计划的哪些部分吸引了学生，如何以及为什么这些组件影响他们的学术和社会，以及这些经验如何使他们未来的成功持久的变化。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program supports the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Frederick Community College. Throughout its 5 years, this project will fund 30 scholarships in 3 groups of 10 students who are pursuing associate's degrees in STEM disciplines. The program will offer these scholars the resources and support needed to identify appropriate STEM-related academic and career pathways and make a full-time commitment to achieving their goals related to their chosen pathways. The project will answer the need to train more students to become STEM professionals. With financial support, faculty mentoring, exposure to research, industry experiences, and opportunities for STEM-related community service, students will develop an identity not only as STEM students, but as professionals entering a discipline and members of a robust STEM community.This project will seek to provide new understandings of how to improve student enrollment and success (retention, completion, and/or transfer) using STEM scholarship funds and student interventions. The research in the project will build upon and extend prior studies around increasing STEM enrollment using scholarships and interdisciplinary seminars, retention models for STEM majors, and best practices for student intervention identified by Complete College America. Along with these activities, a speaker series, field trips, service learning opportunities, and other co-curricular events will be created by the STEM Scholars program to aid in the creation of a cohort identity. Through interviews and surveys, the program plans to determine which parts of the program attracted students, how and why these components affected them academically and socially, and how these experiences made lasting changes to their future success. It will also examine the impact of the scholarships covering the entire cost of attendance on students' employment.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.