INCLUDES Initiative (Conference): Reimagining STEM Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Centering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

这一会议奖项由美国国家科学基金会的埃迪·伯尼斯·约翰逊包括倡议资助，旨在为扩大科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)创新与创业(I&Amp；E)的参与创造一个可行的愿景。来自不同背景和身份的与会者将在会议研讨会期间使用迭代设计和构思，随后由工作组集中关注历史上被排除在STEM之外的个人的观点和经验，将为重新想象的、包容的I&A；E生态系统创建核心愿景和路线图。该项目预计将通过重新定义STEM I&A；E的方法、开辟多条推进包容性创新的新途径以及产生创业、颠覆和成功的新定义，从而有意义地推动该领域的发展。预计此次会议还将为整个I&A；E生态系统中那些被剥夺这些机会的人创造经济机会和利益。这次会议将汇聚由参加STEM I&amp；E专家组成的不同核心网络和扩大的伙伴关系，这将有助于推进重新设想和系统性变革工作。STEM I&Amp；E迫切需要让不同的人群参与进来，并为所有美国人的能量、创造力和贡献创造机会。这个会议奖项集中了边缘人群的生活经历，帮助该领域了解差距和障碍最持久的地方，以及来自代表性不足人群的人是如何经历这些差距和障碍的，并通过研究创造机会以不同的方式思考系统性限制。将探讨的问题包括：在生态系统内部/外部需要制定什么价值观？需要进行哪些结构性改革？需要哪些资源来实现这一愿景？小型工作组将在会议讲习班之后的几个月内召开会议，以确定并进一步拟订推动远景构想的五项可行建议。预期成果是一个初步框架，它确定了包容性STEM进出口部门的属性，制定了一系列共同创建的战略建议，公布了描述每个建议的基本原理和实施步骤的行动议程，以及进一步探索和实施其他战略的工作计划。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。

This conference award, funded by NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative, is creating an actionable vision for broadening participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) innovation & entrepreneurship (I&E). Using iterative design and ideation during a conference workshop, followed by working groups that center the perspectives and experiences of individuals historically excluded from STEM, participants from different backgrounds and identities will create a core vision and roadmap for a reimagined, inclusive I&E ecosystem. This project is expected to meaningfully advance the field by redefining approaches to STEM I&E, opening multiple new pathways to advance inclusive innovation, and generating new definitions of entrepreneurship, disruption, and success. The conference is also expected to create economic opportunities and benefits to those across the I&E ecosystem who have been denied these opportunities. The conference will bring together a diverse core network of participating STEM I&E experts and expanded partnerships that will help to carry the re-envisioning and systemic change work forward. There is an urgent and critical need for STEM I&E to engage diverse populations and create opportunity for the energy, creativity, and contributions of all Americans. This conference award centers the lived experiences of marginalized populations, helps the field learn where gaps and barriers are most persistent and how they are experienced by people from underrepresented populations, and creates opportunities to think differently about systemic constraints through research. Questions that will be explored include: What values need to be enacted within/outside of the ecosystem? What structural changes are needed? What resources are needed to enact the vision? Small working groups will convene in the months following the conference workshop to identify and further develop five actionable recommendations for moving the vision forward. Anticipated outcomes are an initial framework that identifies attributes of an inclusive STEM I&E sector, development of a series of co-created strategic recommendations, published action agendas describing a rationale and implementation steps for each recommendation, and a workplan for further exploration and implementation of additional strategies.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.