Montana Minds

Montana Minds为蒙大拿理工大学化学、生物、数学、计算机科学和软件工程专业的18名学生提供四年可再生奖学金。与联邦政府资助和州政府管理的项目Gear Up合作，Montana Minds正在从蒙大拿州的高中招募学生（包括美洲原住民高中），学生在大学的传统代表性不足，特别是在STEM学科代表性不足。旨在帮助确保蒙大拿州思想学生学者的成功和毅力的特殊功能包括在有针对性的学习社区入学，以培养凝聚力，在大学成功课程入学，以提高学习技能，由一个单一的教师在一个学科内的建议，使用学生导师/导师建立学者之间的社区，并鼓励在学科为基础的学生俱乐部的参与。 扩大和丰富的经验，扩大和刺激蒙大拿州思想学生学者的学科视野，包括前往参观国家科学和工程实验室，指导出席全国会议，并通过本科研究，学生与教师和其他学生在团队中攻击真实的问题和问题的方法，社区价值观和学术活动的道德接触。 学生学者被鼓励回到他们的家乡社区讲述他们的故事，并激励其他高中学生跟随他们的道路。蒙大拿州的思想是分享模式和最佳做法，全国通过介绍专业协会会议和出版物。 除了持续的非正式和年度正式评估外，来自这种传播的反馈确保该项目达到其目标，即为学生未来在科学，技术，工程和数学方面的成功职业做好准备和教育。

Montana Minds provides four-year renewable scholarships for 18 students majoring in chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, and software engineering at Montana Tech. Working with the federally funded and state administered program Gear Up, Montana Minds is recruiting students from Montana high schools (including Native American high schools) where students have been traditionally underrepresented in college and particularly underrepresented in the STEM disciplines.Special features designed to help insure the success and perseverance of Montana Minds student scholars include enrollment in targeted Learning Communities to foster cohesiveness, enrollment in a College Success course to sharpen study skills, advising within a discipline by a single faculty member, the use of student mentor/tutors to build community among the scholars, and encouraged participation in disciplinary based student clubs. Broadening and enriching experiences that expand and stimulate the disciplinary horizons of Montana Minds student scholars include travel to visit national science and engineering laboratories, mentored attendance at a national meeting, and exposure to the methods, community values, and ethics of scholarly activity through undergraduate research where students work with faculty and other students in teams attacking authentic questions and problems. Student scholars are encouraged to return to their home communities to tell their stories and stimulate other high school students to follow in their paths. Montana Minds is sharing the model and best practices nationally through presentations at professional association meetings and publications. Feedback from this dissemination, in addition to continuous informal and annual formal assessment, assures that the project is meeting its goals of preparing and educating students for future successful careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.