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

迪拉德大学和新奥尔良的HBCU是唯一准备从事基于地点的方法，以了解和培训大学预科学生在关键的地学环境挑战。大一新生地球科学暑期计划将是这一令人兴奋的地球科学教育类别的基础和实践经验。他们的想法是，学生们将在夏季成为地理空间科学家。学生们将接触到经验丰富的榜样，作为核心活动，将探索无人机技术在他们社区内的地球科学中的应用。主要目标是揭露、激励、激励和鼓励，从而增加来自结构上被排斥群体的学生获得学位、攻读地球科学学位和进入地球科学工作队伍的人数。鉴于最近的气候事件，新奥尔良是一个模型试验台，让学生参与并感兴趣不断增长的与地球科学相关的环境问题。以墨西哥湾沿岸为背景，该项目将以环境教学和研究的体验式方法为中心，将地理信息系统制图、几何/微积分、地球科学和无人机分析融入其中，以改进和推进本科STEM教育途径进入地球科学。从新奥尔良及周边地区高中毕业的学生以及来自其他州的学生将被选中参加为期8周的大一新生地球科学暑期计划。这些学生将参加四门课程，每门课程中都嵌入了多项实践活动。该计划的顶峰或亮点将是无人机技术入门课程，该课程将把所有课程主题(地理信息系统、几何/微积分、地球科学)整合到以跨学科活动为基础的形式中。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)激励和增加地球科学/地球科学专业的结构排斥群体的学生的参与；和4)赋予不同背景的学生在地球科学方面的科学知识和技能。该项目由NSF的地球科学多样性领导机会计划(GOLD-EN)、历史黑人学院和大学本科项目(HBCU-UP)共同资助，HBCU-UP提供奖项以加强HBCU的STEM本科教育和研究，以及历史黑人学院和大学卓越研究项目。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。

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.