A proposal to Support the Talent Development and Innovation in Sciences (TDIS) Internship Program

少数民族优质教育网络是一个非营利性组织，在促进改善代表不足群体的教育方面发挥了重要作用，特别是在科学、技术、工程和数学方面。该项目支持QEM人才培养和科学创新(TDIS)实习计划，提供以研究为重点的专业发展计划，将学生安置在国家科学基金会，作为一种机制，通过为未被充分代表的寻求STEM学位的本科生和研究生提供职业接触和指导/指导，来刺激和支持下一代STEM劳动力的发展。实习生代表不同的机构，他们接触到一系列专业发展活动，这些活动对他们的职业生涯有直接好处，对他们所在的机构和校园同行也有间接好处。该实习计划提供个人和专业技能发展，以促进实习生成功追求以STEM为重点的高级学位和职业。这一人力能力建设努力将有助于培养一支多样化、参与度高、具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力队伍，为通过发现和创新应对未来挑战做好准备。TDIS实习机会利用并扩大实习生先前在学校学习的机会，从NSF培训和指导以及QEM专业发展活动中获得新的经验。实习生进一步发展他们的研究技能；加强他们对影响STEM教育质量的计划、政策和问题的认识和知识，特别是在低收入社区；并提高他们对以STEM为重点的一般政策、立法和计划的认识。实习生受益于从事研究和数据分析的机会；扩大他们在研究生院和STEM职业生涯准备方面的知识；以及获得有效的网络和沟通(写作、公开演讲和计算机)技能。该计划建立在30多年的成功基础上，采用了使该计划具有价值的战略，包括使用技术和利用与关键利益相关者的关系，使暑期体验与21世纪学生的职业成长更相关。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a non-profit organization, has been instrumental in serving as a catalyst to improve the education of under-represented groups, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This project supports the QEM Talent Development and Innovation in Sciences (TDIS) Internship Program in providing a research-focused professional development initiative that places students at the National Science Foundation as a mechanism to stimulate and support the development of the next-generation STEM workforce through career exposure and mentoring/guidance for underrepresented STEM degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students. Interns, representing diverse institutions, are exposed to a range of professional development activities that have direct benefits to them professionally, as well as indirect benefits to their home institutions and campus-based peers. The internship program provides personal and professional skills development to facilitate the interns’ successful pursuit of STEM-focused advanced degrees and careers. This human capacity building endeavor will help train a diverse, engaged, and globally competitive STEM workforce prepared to meet future challenges through discovery and innovation.The TDIS internship opportunity leverages and expands the interns' prior learning from school with new experiences from NSF training and mentoring, as well as QEM professional development engagements. Interns further develop their research skills; strengthen their awareness and knowledge of programs, policies, and issues that affect the quality of STEM education, particularly in low-income communities; and sharpen their awareness of general STEM-focused policies, legislation, and programs. Interns benefit from opportunities to engage in research and data analysis; expand their knowledge of graduate school and STEM career preparation; and gain effective networking as well as communications (writing, public speaking, and computer) skills. The program builds on over 30 years of success employing strategies that make the program valuable including the use of technology and leveraging relationships with key stakeholders that make the summer experience more relevant to 21st Century students' professional growth.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.