Scholarships in Engineering, Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (SESMC)

艾伦汉考克学院（Allan Hancock College）是位于加州中部海岸的一所服务于西班牙裔的社区学院，为学术能力强但经济困难的STEM学生提供两年的奖学金。工程、生物、化学、地质科学、物理、数学或计算机科学专业的学生可以自由地学习全日制课程，并得到全面的支持，以确保他们在两年的大学学习中取得学业成功，并在具有挑战性的STEM学科中保留下来。在一系列由美国国家科学基金会和联邦政府资助的计划的基础上，基础设施已经到位，以支持这些学者，并促进他们转到四年制大学完成学士学位。虽然学生们学习各种各样的STEM学科，但许多基础课程是几个学科共同的，因此该计划具有连贯性，支持学生的努力。积极的指导、进度监控以及与工业界和学术界专业人士建立联系的机会也是该计划的组成部分。由于奖学金的规模可以满足大多数已证明的需求，因此，未被充分代表的少数族裔科学家和工程师的管道将被打开得更大。

Allan Hancock College, a Hispanic-serving community college on California's central coast, offers two-year scholarships to STEM students of high academic ability but financial need. Students in engineering, biology, chemistry, geological science, physics, mathematics or computer science are freed to undertake full-time course loads, and are supported thoroughly to ensure academic success and retention in challenging STEM disciplines through their two years at the college. Built on a series of NSF- and federally-funded initiatives, the infrastructure is in place to support the scholars and facilitate their transfer to four-year institutions to complete their bachelor's degrees. Though the students study a wide variety of STEM disciplines, many of the foundational courses are common to several disciplines, so the program has a coherence that supports the student efforts. Active mentoring, monitoring of progress, and opportunities for networking with professionals in industry and academe are also integral parts of the program. With scholarship size set to meet most of the demonstrated need, the pipeline of underrepresented minority scientists and engineers is thereby opened wider.