GP-IN: BUILDING A PATHWAY TO GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION USING DRONES

迪拉德大学和新奥尔良的HBCU是唯一准备从事以地方为基础的方法，以了解和培训大学预科学生在关键的区域地球科学环境挑战。预新生地球科学暑期课程将是地球科学教育这一令人兴奋的类别的基础和实践经验。这个想法是，学生将成为地理空间科学家的夏天。学生将接触到经验丰富的榜样，并作为一个核心活动，将探索无人机技术在他们的社区地球科学的应用。主要目标是揭露，激励，刺激和鼓励，从而增加从结构上被排斥的群体获得学位，攻读地球科学学位和进入地球科学劳动力的学生人数。 鉴于最近的气候事件，新奥尔良是一个模型试验台，让学生参与和兴趣不断增长，正在进行的地球科学相关的环境问题。 利用墨西哥湾沿岸作为背景，该项目将集中在环境教学和研究的经验方法，注入GIS制图，几何/微积分，地球科学和无人机分析，以改善和推进本科STEM教育途径进入地球科学。从新奥尔良大都市高中毕业的学生和周边地区以及来自州外的学生将被选中参加为期8周的新生前地球科学暑期课程。这些学生将参加四门课程，每门课程都包含多个实践活动。该计划的顶峰或亮点将是无人机技术课程介绍，该课程将有助于将所有课程主题（GIS，几何/微积分，地球科学）整合到跨学科活动中。拟议的活动旨在：1）培养学生参与以地球科学为重点的STEM职业道路的兴趣和能力; 2）介绍无人机技术及其与理解地球和地球科学的相关性; 3）激励和增加来自结构性排斥群体的学生的参与，这些学生主修地球科学/地球科学;和4）赋予来自不同背景的学生在地球科学的科学知识和技能。这个项目是由NSF的地球科学机会领导多样性计划（GOLD-EN）共同资助，历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU-UP），该项目提供奖励，以加强HBCUs的STEM本科教育和研究，和历史上的黑人学院和大学的卓越研究计划。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的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，

Dillard University, and HBCU in New Orleans, is uniquely poised to engage in a place-based approach to understand and train pre-college students in key regional geoscience environmental challenges. The Pre-Freshman Earth Science Summer program will be a foundational and hands-on experience in this exciting category of geoscience education. The idea is that students will become geospatial scientists for the summer. Students will be exposed to experienced role models, and as a centerpiece activity, will explore applications of drone technology to the geosciences within their community. The primary goal is to expose, motivate, stimulate, and encourage thus increasing the number of students from structurally excluded groups receiving degrees, and pursuing a geosciences degree and entering the geoscience workforce. In light of recent climate events, New Orleans is a model testbed to engage and interest students in growing, ongoing geoscience related environmental issues. Utilizing the Gulf Coast as a backdrop, this project will center on experiential approaches to environmental teaching and research, infusing GIS mapping, geometry/calculus, earth science and drone analysis, to improve and advance undergraduate STEM education pathways into the geosciences. Students who have graduated from high school in metropolitan New Orleans and the surrounding areas as well as students from out of state will be selected to participate in an 8-week Pre-Freshman Earth Science Summer Program. These students will engage in four courses with multiple hands-on activities embedded within each. A capstone or highlight of the program will be the Introduction to Drone Technology Course which will serve to integrate all course topics (GIS, geometry/calculus, earth science) within an interdisciplinary activity-based format. The proposed activities are designed to: 1) build students' interest and capacity to engage in a geoscience-focused STEM career pathways; 2) introduce drone technology and their relevance to understanding earth and geosciences; 3) motivate and increase the participation of students from structurally excluded groups who major in earth science/geoscience; and 4) empower students from diverse backgrounds with scientific knowledge and skills in the geosciences.This project is co-funded by NSF's Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity Program (GOLD-EN), the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), which provides awards to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs, and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Excellence in Research Program.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.