RCN-UBE Incubator: The STEM Career Exploration Laboratory Network

RCN-UBE 孵化器：STEM 职业探索实验室网络

• 批准号: 2120588
• 负责人: Anjana Saxena
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: CUNY Brooklyn College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-15 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120588&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Incubator; STEM; Career

Students in STEM majors nationwide frequently fail to translate course learning experiences into career aspirations. Course content often lacks connections to societal issues or fail to address public problems using skills students developed in their majors. The STEM Career Exploration Laboratory Network (STEMCEL) is designed to develop and implement a “course to community and career skillset” approach to enhance students’ civic engagement and encourage them to explore a variety of STEM careers that can bring socioeconomic advancement.The Network will build a bridge between community problems and educational institutions by having students apply their classroom curricula to develop solutions to societal and social justice needs. An example is development of rapid environmental testing tools that contribute to identifying and monitoring contaminated local sites. The overarching goals of the STEMCEL incubator are to: connect biology students to civic-engagement by identifying communal needs, develop a multimodal approach to the problem through hands-on research exploration in early laboratory courses that will train students in state-of-the art techniques, participate in building a network with peers and experts in the fields of STEM careers, and advance scientific critical thinking to provide practical solutions to real-life problems with deliverables. This work will establish and improve connections that will result in positive environmental impact in local regions, by developing a rapid contaminant detection test. STEMCEL partners from 2-year community colleges, 4-year colleges, research institutes, industrial liaisons as well as New York city civil offices, will work together to enrich the students’ research and networking experiences in the curricula and in real-life implementation processes. The STEMCEL network will bring career exploration into early undergraduate curricula to expand students’ view of other rewarding and important career paths outside of the healthcare-related fields that they are familiar with when they enter college. The project will be scalable nationwide, as environmental contaminants are a major issue for the whole country. The STEMCEL philosophy is to create courses incorporating authentic research that contribute to large data sets nationwide while educating our students to the variety of STEM careers available. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).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.

全国STEM专业的学生经常无法将课程学习经验转化为职业抱负。课程内容往往缺乏与社会问题的联系，或未能利用学生在专业中培养的技能解决公共问题。 STEM职业探索实验室网络（STEMCEL）旨在开发和实施“社区和职业技能课程”该网络将在社区问题和教育机构之间架起一座桥梁，让学生应用课堂课程，为社会和经济发展制定解决方案。正义需要。一个例子是开发快速环境测试工具，以帮助查明和监测受污染的当地场地。STEMCEL孵化器的总体目标是：通过识别社区需求将生物学学生与公民参与联系起来，通过早期实验室课程中的实践研究探索来开发解决问题的多模式方法，这些课程将培养学生掌握最先进的技术，参与与STEM职业领域的同行和专家建立网络，推进科学批判性思维，为现实生活中的问题提供实用的解决方案。这项工作将建立和改善连接，通过开发快速污染物检测测试，对当地地区产生积极的环境影响。STEMCEL的合作伙伴来自2年制社区学院，4年制学院，研究机构，工业联络以及纽约市民政局，将共同努力，丰富学生的研究和网络经验的课程，并在现实生活中的实施过程。STEMCEL网络将把职业探索纳入早期的本科课程，以扩大学生对他们进入大学时熟悉的医疗保健相关领域之外的其他有益和重要职业道路的看法。该项目将在全国范围内推广，因为环境污染物是全国的一个主要问题。 STEMCEL的理念是创建包含真实研究的课程，这些研究有助于全国范围内的大型数据集，同时教育我们的学生掌握各种STEM职业。该项目由生物基础设施部生物科学理事会和本科教育部教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，作为应对本科生物学教育中的愿景和变革所带来的挑战的努力的一部分：行动呼吁（http：//visionandchange/finalreport/）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进行评估，更广泛的影响审查标准。