Akeakamai I Ka La Hiki Ola: Scientific Exploration Beneath The Life-Bringing Sun (NSF ATST Mitigation Plan)

项目说明：2010财政年度开始为在夏威夷哈雷阿卡拉山顶附近建造先进技术太阳望远镜提供资金。 由于它是由联邦基金资助的，ATST的建设是一个联邦的事业，必须遵守一些环境和历史保护法规。ATST建设对Haleakala顶部环境，历史和文化资产的影响是近五年研究的主题，最终于2009年8月完成了最终环境影响报告（FEIS）。 既然哈雷阿卡拉峰会是？传统文化场所？对于夏威夷原住民和其他太平洋岛民具有文化和精神意义，FEIS规定，ATST的建设将对当地的精神和文化资产产生影响。 符合性文件中描述了许多旨在最大限度地减少或减轻此类影响的缓解活动，并记录在由前NSF主任Arden L.小贝门特在2009年12月。 其中一个旨在减轻作为TCP的首脑会议的直接，重大，不利和长期影响的措施是通过教育和劳动力发展。 该奖项为夏威夷毛伊岛大学的一个为期十年的项目提供资金，该项目将解决传统夏威夷土著文化与科学之间的交叉问题。该项目将采用传统夏威夷土著学习方法的STEM教育策略。AIK将创建一个？管道？在中学数学和科学教师和工作人员的支持下，通过在教育早期识别和准备学生，为毛伊岛县中学的夏威夷土著STEM学生提供帮助。该计划包括以夏威夷语开发STEM课程，在中学和中学后各级发展STEM教师，并通过各种社区合作伙伴计划，寻求吸引父母、家庭、潜在雇主和社区成员以及各种夏威夷原住民学生网络。该计划为帮助土著人民获得21世纪世纪的经济机会提供了创新设计。该计划还旨在向夏威夷原住民和更广泛的社区表明，STEM社区内存在本土知识，经验和学习方式的空间，以做出重大贡献。在这个计划中开发的方案将使夏威夷土著人和其他毛伊岛县和UHMC学生受益。最后，夏威夷群岛面临的复杂的社会和环境问题要求下一代领导人精通科学和文化。该计划通过汇集现有的STEM科学，夏威夷土著文化以及中学和中学后教育资源来满足这一需求，以从服务不足的人口中创建一批未来的领导者。

Description of the Project:Funding for the construction of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) near the summit of Haleakala on Maui, Hawaii began in FY 2010. Since it is funded with Federal funds, ATST construction is a Federal undertaking that must comply with a number of environmental and historic preservation statutes. The impacts of the ATST construction on the environmental, historical, and cultural assets atop Haleakala were the subject of a nearly five-year study that culminated in a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) that was completed in August 2009. Since the summit of Haleakala is a ?traditional cultural place? that has cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, the FEIS stipulates that the construction of the ATST will have impacts on the spiritual and cultural assets there. A number of mitigation activities designed to minimize or mitigate such impacts are described in the compliance documents and are memorialized in the Record of Decision signed by former NSF Director, Arden L. Bement, Jr. in December 2009. One of these designed to mitigate the direct, major, adverse, and long-term impacts to the summit as a TCP is through education and workforce development. This award provides funding for a ten-year program at the University of Hawaii Maui College that will address the intersection between traditional Native Hawaiian culture and science.This program will employ STEM educational strategies informed by traditional Native Hawaiian approaches to learning. AIK will create a ?pipeline? of Native Hawaiian STEM students from Maui County secondary schools by identifying and preparing students early in their education, with the support of secondary school math and science teachers and staff. The plan includes development of STEM curricula in the Hawaiian language, STEM faculty development at both secondary and postsecondary levels, and also seeks to engage parents, families, prospective employers, and community members, as well as various Native Hawaiian student networks, through a variety of community partner programs.Broader Impacts and ImportanceBy integrating science with Native Hawaiian culture, this plan offers an innovative design for helping native peoples access 21st century economic opportunities. This plan also seeks to demonstrate to the Native Hawaiian and broader community that there exists space within the STEM community for native knowledge, experiences, and ways of learning to make significant contribution. Programs that are developed in this plan will benefit both Native Hawaiian and other Maui County and UHMC students. Finally, the complex social and environmental issues that confront the Hawaiian Islands require that the next generation of leaders be conversant in both science and culture. This plan addresses this need, by bringing together existing STEM scientific, Native Hawaiian cultural, and secondary and post-secondary educational resources to create a cohort of future leaders from an underserved population.