2012 S-STEM Principal Investigators Meeting

NSF S-STEM计划为有才华和经济困难的学生提供奖学金，使他们能够全日制学习STEM学科。由于S-STEM项目对传播和社区互动的支持有限，因此管理S-STEM奖学金的学校很难相互交流和学习。该项目将示范性S-STEM主要调查员与新的S-STEM主要调查员聚集在一起，并促进项目之间交流经验教训和最佳做法。项目负责人的面对面会议对于彻底交流想法和记录其他形式的聚会无法获得的最佳做法至关重要。会议成果正在全国范围内传播，因此会议不仅使与会者受益，而且使所有当前和不久的将来的提议者受益。

The NSF S-STEM program provides scholarships to talented and financially needy students enabling them to enroll full time in a STEM discipline. Because the S-STEM program provides limited support for dissemination and community interaction, it has been difficult for schools administering S-STEM scholarships to communicate and learn from each other. This project is bringing exemplary S-STEM principal investigators together with new S-STEM principal investigators and facilitating an exchange of lessons learned and best practices among projects. The face-to-face meeting of PIs is critical to generate a thorough exchange of ideas and the documentation of best practices that cannot be captured in other forms of gatherings. The meeting results are being disseminated nationally and therefore the meeting benefits not only the attendees but also all current and near future proposers.