Twenty-First Century Technology Scholars

该项目每年向计算机科学和工程科学转学专业以及数字/计算机和机械技术专业的学生颁发30份奖学金，为期4年。为这些学者提供了各种强调社区建设的优质支持结构。包括每周的学习课程，以增加学生与教师的联系，早餐指导，聊天室，学生指导，特定学科的一小时复习课程，以及课程的共同注册。学生们记日记，并与他们的顾问和/或学习指导老师分享信息，他们提供有关学生需求和学生支持活动有效性的信息。这些学生通过一个类似于WebCT或Blackboard的课程管理软件包Angel帐户获得支持，该软件包促进小组间交流、小组项目工作以及与学生导师的交流。学生们正在通过与当地工业（主要是制造业）的紧密联系建立专业联系。该项目针对的是女性和代表性不足的学生阶层。物理学、数学和计算机科学领域的女教师正在发挥榜样作用。正在采用的支持和留住女性的技术包括在物理课程中采用动手主动的学习方式，根据性别需求组建实验室和学习小组，以及在开放实验室中提供家庭友好的氛围，让学生聚集在一起解决问题、吃午饭或听音乐。目前正在开设概念物理课程，以招收女学生将技术或科学作为研究领域。

The project is awarding thirty scholarships per year for four years to students enrolled in a computer science and engineering science transfer programs, and digital/computer and mechanical technology programs. The scholars are being provided with a variety of quality support structures that emphasizes community building. Included are weekly study sessions to increase student connections with instructors, breakfast orientations, chat rooms, student mentoring, discipline specific one-hour refresher courses, and common enrollment in classes. Students are keeping journals and sharing the information with their advisors and/or the study session instructor, which is providing information about students' needs and the effectiveness of student support activities. The scholars are being supported through an Angel account, a course management software package similar to WebCT or Blackboard, which is fostering inter-group communication, group project work, and communication with the students' mentors. The students are making professional connections through strong connections with local industries, which lie mainly within the manufacturing sector. The program is targeting women and underrepresented classes of students. Female faculty members in physics, math and computer science are serving as role models. Techniques that are being employed to support and retain women includes hands-on active learning styles in the physics curriculum, forming lab and study groups that respond to gender needs, and providing a family friendly atmosphere in an open lab where students gather to work on problems, eat lunch, or listen to music. A conceptual physics course is being offered to recruit female students to pursue technology or science as a field of study.