The Math and Science, Technology, Engineering Reinforcement (MASTER) Scholar Program

数学和科学，技术，工程强化（MASTER）奖学金计划每年为具有较强学术能力和经济需求的学生提供20个奖学金，以学习各种STEM学科，包括农业生态学，生物学，化学，制图技术，工程，数学，自然资源生物学和物理学。该项目的智力价值取决于经验丰富的教师和工作人员，他们可以获得机构和社区资源，这些资源致力于提高学生的参与度，并支持学生过渡到四年制课程和/或劳动力。具体的项目活动包括教师指导;为所有学者提供专业技能，时间和压力管理，职业定向和实习机会介绍的特殊单学分课程;以及职业安置和转移服务。该项目的更广泛的影响是通过提供机会，在落基山脉西部农村地区的学生感到。该项目还认为，其学者对其他潜在的STEM学生的同龄人影响以及整个项目作为类似小型农村机构典范的潜力非常重要。

The Math and Science, Technology, Engineering Reinforcement (MASTER) Scholar Program is providing twenty scholarships per year to students with strong academic ability and financial need to study a variety of STEM disciplines including Agroecology, Biology, Chemistry, Drafting Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural Resource Biology, and Physics. The project's intellectual merit rests on an experienced faculty and staff with access to institutional and community resources that are dedicated to increasing student engagement and supporting student transition into four-year programs and/or the workforce. Specific project activities include faculty mentoring; a special one-credit course for all scholars on professional skills, time and stress management, career orientation, and introduction to internship opportunities; and career placement and transfer services. The project's broader impacts are being felt through its provision of opportunity to students in a rural region in the Rocky Mountain West. The project also sees importance in the peer influence of its scholars on other prospective STEM students and the potential for the overall project to serve as a model for similar small rural institutions.