BPINNOVATE: Intersectionality in Building STEM Entrepreneurship Capacity: Rurality, Indigeneity, and Technology

新墨西哥州中部地区是大量美国原住民和拉美裔人口的家园，传统上在STEM领域的代表性不足。该州还拥有大量以stem为重点的教育和研究，包括向清洁能源的过渡，这将为该地区提供新的就业机会和三个国家实验室。然而，没有任何联盟通过技术转让和与其遗产相关的创业培训，将新墨西哥州的STEM专业学生与创新直接联系起来。拟议的活动具有积极影响社会相关成果的巨大潜力，包括妇女和来自美洲原住民、西班牙裔和低收入人群的代表性不足的少数群体更广泛地参与STEM创新和创业。通过增加服务不足群体在技术创新和创业方面的代表性来扩大参与，对于保持全球竞争力和促进经济发展至关重要，特别是在历史上深受地方性贫困和农村边缘化困扰的社区。本项目提出的设想技术职业道路具有巨大的潜力，可以增加STEM中代表性不足的人群的成功，在高等教育和研究商业化的交叉点创造新的职业管道。该项目还将使拟议的研究团队能够创建一个共同的愿景和必要的知识库，以应对STEM领域日益扩大的参与挑战，特别是对美国原住民和拉美裔农村人而言。该项目将促进STEM教育领域的知识和理解，重点是技术创新和创业，为现有的大量工作增加一个新的方面，以扩大STEM学术课程和职业的代表性。该项目将侧重于在新墨西哥州服务不足的人口中建立农村数字身份概况。对土著相对于其他身份类别所起作用的调查已变得日益紧迫。在这个世界历史上非常复杂的时刻，身份的作用需要使用交叉性作为一种手段，激发对人们属于社区的方式的更深层次的理解，并在这些社区中充当变革的推动者。这一概况将有助于为教育和经济发展计划提供急需的背景，这些计划旨在利用技术创新作为经济繁荣新模式的机制，将服务欠缺的社区与全球市场联系起来。本项目由“科学之科学：发现、传播和影响”和“促进竞争性研究的既定计划”（EPSCoR）共同资助。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 Central New Mexico region is home to large populations of Native Americans and Hispanics traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The state also contains an abundance of STEM-focused education and research, including a transition to clean energy that will provide new jobs and three national laboratories in the region. However, no alliance directly connects New Mexico STEM majors to innovation through training in technology transfer and entrepreneurship relevant to their heritage. The proposed activities offer great potential to positively impact societally relevant outcomes, including the broader participation of women and underrepresented minorities from Native American, Hispanic and low-income populations in STEM innovation and entrepreneurship. Broadening participation by increasing the representation of underserved groups in technology innovation and entrepreneurship is critical for maintaining global competitiveness and for promoting economic development, especially in communities historically plagued by endemic poverty and rural marginality.The conceived technology career pathway proposed in this project has significant potential to spawn an increase in the success of underrepresented populations in STEM, creating a new career pipeline at the intersection of higher education and research commercialization. This project will also enable the proposed research team to create a Shared Vision and the necessary knowledge-base to address the broadening participation challenges in STEM, especially for Native Americans and rural Hispanics.This program will advance knowledge and understanding in the field of STEM education that focuses on technology innovation and entrepreneurship by adding a novel aspect to the existing large body of work seeking to broaden representation in STEM academic programs and careers. This program will focus on the development of a profile of the rural digital identity that operates within New Mexico’s underserved populations. An investigation of the role that indigeneity plays in relation to other identity categories has become increasingly urgent. The role of identity at this very complex moment in world history requires the use of intersectionality as a means of provoking a deeper understanding of the way people belong to communities and serve as change-agents within those communities. This profile will be instrumental in providing much needed context for educational and economic development programs aimed at connecting underserved communities to global markets using technological innovation as the mechanism for new models of economic prosperity.This project is jointly funded by Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact, and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.