Phase II: Magakata Woslolye Oaye (Cultivating Science into the Future)

OLC TCUP计划的第二阶段，Magakata Woslolye Oaye（培养科学走向未来）项目，建立在第一阶段开发的基础设施和举措的基础上，为STEM领域的学生，教师和社区成员扩大学术和专业发展机会。Magakata Woslolye Oaye计划的愿景是开发一种模式，以加强部落学院的科学领导力。培训现有的Oglala Lakota学院STEM教师成为首席研究员和领导者，并增加资助的原创研究项目的数量。利用现有的基础设施和资源，通过整合本地化的原创研究项目和基于社区的服务学习项目，改善学术课程和学生的学习.使现有的商业企业适应更可持续的社会化企业模式。为了实现这些目标，三名STEM教师将设计一个研究项目，以回答与松岭保护区相关的环境问题。每个学院将担任一个团队的领导者，招募和培训四名本科生在研究团队工作。此外，他们将担任项目的主要研究者，并指导团队撰写一份提交给当地审查小组的提案，以获得OLCPhase II项目的项目资金。

Phase Two of the OLC TCUP program, the Magakata Woslolye Oaye (Cultivating Scienceinto the Future) project, builds upon the infrastructure and initiatives developed in Phase I toexpand academic and professional development opportunities for students, faculty, andcommunity members in areas of STEM. The vision of the Magakata Woslolye Oaye program isto develop a model to strengthen science leadership at Tribal Colleges.The three goals of the Magakata Woslolye Oaye program are to:1. Train existing Oglala Lakota College STEM faculty to become PrincipalInvestigators and leaders and increase the number of funded original researchprojects.2. Use existing infrastructure and resources to improve academic coursework andstudent learning by incorporating localized original research projects andcommunity based service-learning projects.3. Adapt the existing commercial enterprise to a more sustainable socializedenterprise model.To reach these goals, three STEM faculty members will design a research project toanswer an environmental question relative to the Pine Ridge reservation. Each faculty willserve as a team leader, recruit, and train four undergraduate students to work on the researchteam. In addition, they will serve as the project Principal Investigator and guide the team inwriting a proposal to submit to a local review panel to receive project funding from the OLCPhase II program.