Achieving the Dream Scholarships (ADS) Project

该项目为有学术天赋和经济困难的副学士学位的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)专业学生提供奖学金和其他支持，包括那些准备成为数学和科学教师的学生。它建立在与这一努力相关的五个NSF项目的基础上，包括计算机科学、工程和数学奖学金(NSF-CSEMS)项目和与德克萨斯农工大学金斯维尔分校(TAMUK)合作的科学、技术、工程和数学人才扩展计划(STEP)赠款。每年秋天，都会有30名学生从申报的专业和一个名为College Connections的独特的高中招生计划中被招募。该项目的学术价值在于，它通过在南得克萨斯州德尔玛学院服务区的高中积极招聘，提高了人们对STEM职业的认识。现有的支持计划与这些奖学金基金和化学、物理和微积分的补充指导相结合，以增加学生成功的可能性。德克萨斯农工大学提供的支持包括工程和科学领域的研究机会和实习机会，以及为转学学生提供的奖学金。这一群体得到了每周教师指导、强化咨询、个人咨询和学术成功研讨会的支持。这一计划的更广泛影响包括，它正在增加在国家需要的领域中接受当地教育和技术熟练的员工数量，从而帮助学生和当地经济。

This project is suppling scholarships and other support for academically talented and financially needy science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors at the associate degree level and includes those preparing to be mathematics and science teachers. It builds upon five NSF projects related to this effort including a Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarships (NSF-CSEMS) project and a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) grant with Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK). Each fall a 30 student cohort are being recruited from declared majors and a unique high school recruitment program entitled College Connections. The intellectual merit of this program is that it increases awareness of STEM careers through active recruitment in high schools throughout the south Texas Del Mar College service area. Support programs currently in place are coupled with these scholarship funds and supplemental instruction for chemistry, physics and calculus to increase the likelihood of student success. Support from Texas A&M includes research opportunities and internships in engineering and science and scholarships for transfer students. The cohort is being supported by weekly faculty mentoring, intensive advising, personal counseling, and academic success workshops. The broader impacts of this program include the fact it is increasing the number of locally educated and technically skilled employees in areas of national need, thus helping both the students and the local economy.