2-Pi STEM (2 Pathways into STEM Careers)

2-Pi-STEM（2-Pathways into STEM）项目旨在通过提高认识活动，实地经验，教学和学习，通过基于问题的学习理念以及在劳森州立社区学院（LSCC）建立大学桥梁课程，为科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的职业生涯创造途径。 该项目的活动将得到LSCC增强的STEM基础设施的支持，影响STEM职业中代表性不足的人群，特别是在亚拉巴马中部地区。 2-Pi-STEM项目的总体目标是增加STEM职业道路中代表性不足的少数民族的数量，重点关注以下目标：（1）为STEM学生提供跨课程指导和学习社区，以提高STEM课程的持久性和有效性（2）通过为高中生提供丰富和学术提升计划，创建STEM管道（3）为大一/大二新生实施大学桥梁计划，并与LSCC的新生学院合作转学学生，这是一个让新生适应大学生活的研讨班。该项目预计将增加亚拉巴马中部非洲裔美国学生的准备和成功，从高中过渡，在社区学院保留STEM，并在STEM转移到四年制大学。

The 2-Pi-STEM (2-Pathways into STEM) Project is designed to create pathways to professional careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through awareness activities, field experiences, teaching and learning through problem-based learning concept and the establishment of a college bridge program at Lawson State Community College (LSCC). The activities of the project will be supported by an enhanced STEM infrastructure at LSCC impacting the underrepresented populations in STEM careers especially in the Central Alabama region. The overarching goal of the 2-Pi-STEM Project is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the STEM career paths focusing in the following goals: (1) Provide cross curricular mentoring and learning communities for STEM students to improve persistence and efficacy in STEM courses (2) Create a STEM pipeline by providing enrichment and academic enhancement programs for high school students (3) Implement a college bridge program for incoming freshman/sophomore and transfer students in concert with LSCC's Freshman Academy, a seminar class acclimating new students to college life. The project expects to increase preparation and success of a pool of African American students in Central Alabama in transitioning from high school, being retained in STEM at the community college, and transferring in STEM to a four-year college.