Montana Minds

Montana Minds为蒙大拿州理工学院化学、生物、数学、计算机科学和软件工程专业的18名学生提供为期四年的可再生奖学金。与联邦资助和州管理的Gear Up项目合作，Montana Minds正在从蒙大拿州高中（包括美国原住民高中）招收学生，这些高中的学生传统上在大学中代表性不足，尤其是在STEM学科中代表性不足。为确保蒙大拿学生学者的成功和坚持不懈而设计的特殊功能包括：参加有针对性的学习社区以培养凝聚力，参加大学成功课程以提高学习技能，在一个学科内由一名教员提供建议，使用学生导师/导师在学者之间建立社区，并鼓励参与基于学科的学生俱乐部。拓宽和丰富经验，扩大和刺激蒙大拿思想学生学者的学科视野，包括旅行参观国家科学和工程实验室，指导出席全国会议，并通过本科生研究接触方法，社区价值，和学术活动的伦理，学生与教师和其他学生在团队中攻击真实的问题和问题。学生学者被鼓励回到他们的家乡社区讲述他们的故事，并激励其他高中生跟随他们的道路。蒙大拿州的Minds通过在专业协会会议和出版物上的演讲，在全国范围内分享该模式和最佳实践。除了持续的非正式和年度正式评估之外，这种传播的反馈确保了项目达到了为学生在科学、技术、工程和数学领域的未来成功职业做好准备和教育的目标。

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.