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

INCLUDES 倡议（会议）：以多样性、公平和包容性为中心重新构想 STEM 创新和创业精神

• 批准号: 2317317
• 负责人: Terik Tidwell
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317317&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: INCLUDES; Initiative; Conference; Reimagining; STEM

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.

该会议奖由NSF的Eddie伯尼采约翰逊INCLUDES倡议资助，正在为扩大科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）创新创业（IE）的参与创造一个可行的愿景。在会议研讨会期间使用迭代设计和构思，然后由工作组集中历史上被排除在STEM之外的个人的观点和经验，来自不同背景和身份的参与者将为重新想象的包容性IE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 E的方法，开辟多种新途径来推进包容性创新，并产生创业，破坏和成功的新定义，从而有意义地推进该领域。预计此次会议还将为整个工业电子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。会议将汇集一个由参与STEM I E专家组成的多元化核心网络，并扩大合作伙伴关系，这将有助于推进重新构想和系统性变革工作。STEM I E迫切需要吸引不同的人群，为所有美国人的能量，创造力和贡献创造机会。该会议奖集中在边缘化人群的生活经验，帮助该领域了解差距和障碍最持久的地方，以及代表性不足的人群如何经历这些差距和障碍，并创造机会通过研究以不同的方式思考系统性限制。将探讨的问题包括：需要在生态系统内外制定哪些价值观？需要进行哪些结构性改革？实现这一愿景需要哪些资源？小型工作组将在会议研讨会后的几个月内召开会议，以确定和进一步制定五项可付诸行动的建议，推动愿景向前发展。预期成果是确定包容性STEM I E部门属性的初始框架，制定一系列共同创建的战略建议，发布描述每个建议的理由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，并被认为值得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来支持。