STEM Community Outreach Research Engagement Project

这个为期五年的项目将为20名低收入，高成就的STEM本科生提供奖学金，并证明他们有经济需求。 该奖学金将支持正在攻读生物学、化学、生物化学、数学、物理学、信息系统、计算机科学或环境科学系统学士学位的学生。 该项目的目标是为学者提供基于证据的支持，这将提高他们的STEM学位毕业和追求STEM职业或研究生学位。为了实现这一目标，该项目将开发一个服务学习课程，为学者提供机会，利用他们的科学知识，以改善当地社区。 它还将为学者提供基于证据的支持，包括指导，职业准备和研究经验。 帮助学者获得学位将有助于国家对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求。 该项目有三个具体目标：（1）加强对学者的学术和课外支持，使至少90%的学者保留到第二年，85%的学者毕业于STEM学位;（2）在毕业后六个月内将90%的学者安置到研究生课程或专业STEM职位;以及（3）生成和传播关于STEM专业学生服务学习和坚持之间关系的知识。具体而言，项目组计划调查，如果服务学习课程嵌入到科学课程和为期三周的强化服务学习项目提高学生的自我效能感，感知学术价值感，和同伴的连通性。 他们还计划调查这些因素是否有助于提高学生毕业和进入STEM职业的进展。 这项研究的结果应该进一步阐明服务学习对学生保留和毕业的影响，有助于理解STEM本科教育中有效的教育方法。 该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入，学术成就高的学生的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来科学家、工程师和技术人员的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。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。

This five-year project will provide scholarships to twenty low-income, high-achieving STEM undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need. The scholarships will support students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, mathematics, physics, information systems, computer science, or environmental science systems. The goal of the project is to provide Scholars with evidence-based supports that will improve their graduation with a STEM degree and pursuit of STEM careers or graduate degrees. To accomplish this goal, the project will develop a service-learning curriculum that provides Scholars with opportunities to use their scientific knowledge to improve local communities. It will also provide Scholars with evidence-based supports, including mentoring, career preparation, and research experiences. Helping the Scholars attain their degrees will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. The project has three specific objectives: (1) to enhance academic and co-curricular supports for Scholars so that at least 90% are retained through year two and 85% graduate with a STEM degree; (2) place 90% of Scholars into graduate programs or professional STEM positions within six months of graduation; and (3) generate and disseminate knowledge about the relationship between student service learning and persistence in a STEM major. Specifically, the project team plans to investigate if a service learning curriculum embedded into science courses and a three-week intensive service learning project improve student self-efficacy, sense of perceived academic value, and peer connectedness. They also plan to investigate if these factors contribute to improved student graduation and progression into STEM careers. Findings from this research should further illuminate the effects of service learning on student retention and graduation, contributing to understanding the spectrum of effective educational methods available in STEM undergraduate education. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income, academically high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future scientists, engineers, and technicians, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.