A Proposal to Provide Technical Assistance to Increase the Participation and Competitiveness of Minority Institutions in the Major Research Instrumentation Program

少数民族优质教育网络（QEM）是一个非营利性组织，在改善代表性不足的群体的教育方面发挥了重要作用，这些群体在历史上一直得不到国家教育系统的充分服务。作为麻省理工学院少数民族素质教育项目的继承者，QEM继续为代表性不足的人群制定有效的STEM教育战略，并关注阻碍少数民族接受高质量教育的问题和障碍。为了在STEM领域提供有竞争力的研究和研究培训项目，所有参与研究企业的美国教师和学生都必须能够使用最先进的仪器，使他们能够进行高质量的研究。该奖项将继续为服务少数族裔的院校提供技术援助；为教师提供必要的工具，以便为NSF的设备计划（包括主要研究仪器计划）开发有竞争力的仪器建议。因此，所有美国机构都将有机会获得所需的资金，以促进他们在探索宇宙所带来的挑战方面的努力。

McBay OIA-0351139Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a non-profit organization, has been instrumental in improving the education of under-represented groups that have been historically underserved by the nation's educational system. A successor to the Quality Education for Minorities Project based at MIT, QEM continues to develop effective strategies of STEM education for under-represented populations, and focuses on issues and barriers that prevent minorities from receiving a high quality education. In order to offer competitive research and research training programs in STEM, it is imperative that all US faculty and students participating in the research enterprise have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation enabling them to perform high quality research. This award to QEM will continue previous efforts in providing technical assistance to minority -serving institutions; equipping faculty with the essential tools needed to develop competitive instrumentation proposals to NSF's equipment programs, including the Major Research Instrumentation Program. As a result all US institutions will have opportunity to secure funds needed to facilitate their efforts in the quest to unravel the challenges presented by the universe.