Geoscience PrEP (Precollege Enterprise Program): Seeding Diverse Interest in Geoscience Using Apprentice Enterprises for Watershed Protection

这笔赠款支持密歇根理工大学的一个为期两年的OEDG项目，为少数民族大学预科学生及其教育工作者提供现成的地球科学教育单元，使其融入中学教育课堂。这个项目，“地球科学PrEP（预科企业计划）”将针对人口在地球科学事业以及他们的教育工作者代表不足。地球科学PrEP将建立在校园前，大学课程，来自三所学校的36名学生和6名教师将练习并熟悉地质学和地质工程，最终目标是参与者返回学校继续传播和复制本计划的目标是：1。2.通过在环境原始的地点以及在学校和非正式教育环境中开展大学预科暑期课程，提高代表性不足的人口对地球科学教育的兴趣和参与;提高中等教育工作者提供地球科学教育的能力，方法是在夏季学前班计划中创建实践性的学术地球科学活动模块，并由教育工作者通过专业发展、课程模块、校内支持和继续教育进行复制;提高对地球科学职业的认识，并增加传统上在这一领域代表性不足的群体在地球科学本科学位课程中的学生入学人数。智力优势：该项目促进了对大学预科地球科学课程的效率和有效性的认识，包括在中学内复制本科地球科学课程。更广泛的影响：该项目扩大了地球科学中代表性不足的群体的参与。

This grant supports a two-year OEDG project at Michigan Technological University for minority pre-college students and their educators to infuse readily available geoscience education units into the secondary education classroom. This project, "Geoscience PrEP (Precollege Enterprise Program)" will target populations underrepresented in geoscience careers as well as their educators.The Geoscience PrEP will establish on campus pre-college programming where 36 students and six teachers from three schools will practice and become familiar with geology and geological engineering with the end goal of participants returning to their schools for continued dissemination and replication of the subject and activities with their peers.The project goals are to:1. Increase interest and participation of underrepresented populations in geoscience education through summer pre-college programming in an environmentally pristine location as well as in-school and informal education environments; 2. Enhance the ability of secondary educators to readily provide geoscience education through the creation of hands-on academic geoscience activity modules delivered at the summer precollege program and replicated by educators with professional development, curriculum modules, in-school support, and continuing education; and3. Increase awareness of geoscience careers and increased student enrollment in geoscience undergraduate degree programs by groups traditionally underrepresented in this area. Intellectual Merit: This project advances knowledge about the efficiency and effectiveness of pre-college geoscience programs, including replicating undergraduate geoscience curriculum within secondary schools.Broader Impact: This project broadens participation by underrepresented groups in geoscience.