NSF WINS Internship Program 2007-2009

在美利坚大学华盛顿学期方案主持下设立的土著学生华盛顿实习方案是为了响应白宫倡议而制定的，该倡议旨在帮助美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加土著学生发展必要的知识和领导技能，以提高他们为保留地社区和国家做出贡献的潜力。 有机会获得美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民学生的显着池，该计划侧重于体验式学习，通过耦合实习与课程，并确保主权国家和部落的传统价值观和做法是在程序中混合。 ESTA将继续与国家科学基金会合作，为美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民学生提供实习机会，这是一群在STEM劳动力中代表性不足的学生。预计作为这一努力的结果，NSF将作为一个渠道，扩大这一代表性不足的群体的参与，并使未来的STEM企业多样化，这是保持美国在全球环境中竞争力所必需的。

The Washington Internship for Native Students, established under the auspices of American University's Washington Semester Program, was developed in response to the White House Initiative to help American Indian and Alaskan Native students develop knowledge and leadership skills necessary to enhance their potential to contribute to their communities on reservations, and the nation. Having access to a significant pool of American Indian and Alaskan Native students, the program focuses on experiential learning by coupling internships with coursework and ensuring that traditional values and practices of sovereign nations and tribes are intermingled in the program. WINS will continue to collaborate with the National Science Foundation to provide internship placements for American Indian and Alaskan Native students, a group of students sorely under-represented in the STEM workforce. It is anticipated as a result of this effort, the NSF will serve as a conduit to broaden participation of this under-represented group, and diversify the future STEM enterprise, needed to keep the US competitive in a global environment.