GP-IN: Graduate soft skills development through mentoring pre-university students through diverse geoscience experiences

GP-IN：通过多样化的地球科学经验指导大学预科生，培养研究生软技能

• 批准号: 2023263
• 负责人: Suzan van der Lee
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2023263&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; Graduate; soft; skills; development

The Geosciences are particularly suited for nurturing and diversifying a STEM workforce and promoting STEM literacy on account of the diverse applications to real-world problems related to humanity’s only home: the Earth. This interdisciplinary field prepares geoscience students for successful STEM careers within and beyond geoscience. Yet, the geosciences are faced with a talent gap and suffer from a serious underrepresentation of minoritized groups. Recruiting more and more diverse students into undergraduate geoscience programs of study is a necessity for future prosperity. By exposing rising high school seniors to the importance of a particular science before they enter college could have long-term benefits in favor of STEM career choices. Recruiting and training diverse students into the field will help to ensure that sustainable and inclusive future geoscience workers will be representative of America’s multicultural society.PIs propose a two-pronged approach that targets students at distinct critical junctures in the geoscience talent pipeline: 1) high-school students deciding on colleges and majors, and 2) graduate students working towards academic and non-academic careers in geoscience. The two main goals of this program are 1) to increase the number and diversity of college-bound high-school students who intentionally choose geoscience as a major, and 2) to solidify graduate students’ attitudes, skills, and identities as geoscience leaders and lifelong mentors. High-school students are preferentially recruited from three partner high schools with large populations of students from traditionally minoritized groups. Each high-school summer intern completes an individual project under supervision and mentorship from a graduate student in conjunction with organized and cohort-based exposure to and mini-training in computing and data science, field work and instrumentation, and communication. The graduate student mentors are formally trained and advised in the practice of mentoring via a series of workshops and individual feedback sessions. They also help design and deliver authentic exposure to and mini-training in geoscience to the interns. The interns’ projects are guided by project proposals written by the graduate students and revised with coaching from the PI.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.

地球科学特别适合培养和多样化的干劳动力和促进干识字的各种应用程序，以有关人类唯一的家园现实世界的问题：地球。这个跨学科领域为地球科学学生在地球科学内外的成功STEM职业做好准备。然而，地球科学面临着人才缺口，少数群体的代表性严重不足。招收越来越多的不同学生进入本科地球科学课程的研究是未来繁荣的必要条件。通过让即将升入高中的高年级学生在进入大学之前了解特定科学的重要性，可能会对STEM职业选择产生长期的好处。招募和培训不同的学生进入该领域将有助于确保可持续和包容性的未来地球科学工作者将代表美国的多元文化society. PI提出了一个双管齐下的方法，针对学生在地球科学人才管道不同的关键时刻：1）高中生决定大学和专业，2）研究生工作的学术和非学术职业的地球科学。该计划的两个主要目标是：1）增加有意选择地球科学作为专业的大学生的数量和多样性; 2）巩固研究生作为地球科学领导者和终身导师的态度，技能和身份。高中生优先从三所伙伴高中招收，这些学校有大量传统上属于少数群体的学生。每个高中暑期实习生在研究生的监督和指导下完成一个单独的项目，并结合有组织的和基于队列的接触和计算和数据科学，实地工作和仪器仪表以及通信方面的小型培训。研究生导师通过一系列研讨会和个人反馈会议进行正式培训和指导实践。他们还帮助设计和提供真正的接触和微型培训地球科学的实习生。实习生的项目由研究生撰写的项目建议书指导，并在PI的指导下进行修订。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。