Implementation Grant: DREAM STEM-Driving Research, Entrepreneurship, and Academics through Mastering STEM

实施项目--梦想STEM--通过掌握STEM推动研究、创业和学术--的目标是通过为研究和创新提供知识和技能，促进非裔美国人更多地参与STEM工作。目标是：增加科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的招生人数，特别是化学、环境、地球和地理空间科学、数学和物理课程；提高所有STEM学位课程的保留率；提高所有STEM学位课程的持久度和毕业生人数；刺激教师在STEM教学和学习方面的研究和创新；以及加强对STEM学生的科学教育和技术培训。这些目标将通过三个主要项目组成部分实现：1)科学教育方面的创业精神；2)培养学生作为科学家的身份；以及3)通过教与学、研究创新和微型助学金发展学院。该项目将包括一个研究、发现和创新暑期学院，让学生参与创业周期中的科学和工程研究和开发部分，这可能会导致产品和工艺创新。通过北卡罗来纳中央大学一个高度整合的以科学为基础的创业计划的课外活动，学生将在获得STEM学科的学士学位毕业时获得技术创业证书。预计从该项目中获得的信息和知识将决定那些培养创业思维并接受创业培训的学生是否会以更高的比率注册、保留和坚持STEM学位计划；促进科学认同的活动是否会以更高的比率留住STEM学位计划的学生并提高他们对STEM学位的坚持性；以及用于教师发展的竞争性微型助学金是否会导致STEM教学和学习的创新。从该项目中吸取的知识和经验教训将通过在国家会议上的介绍和同行审查期刊上的出版物向更广泛的受众传播。

The Implementation project entitled - DREAM STEM-Driving Research, Entrepreneurship, and Academics through Mastering STEM - has the goal of contributing to greater participation of African Americans in the STEM workforce by providing the knowledge and skills for research and innovation. The objectives are: to increase science, technology, enginnering and mathematics (STEM) enrollment, particularly in Chemistry, Environmental, Earth, and Geospatial Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics programs; to increase retention in all STEM degree programs; to improve persistence in and increase the number of graduates from all STEM degree programs; to stimulate faculty research and innovations in STEM teaching and learning; and to enhance scientific education and technical training for STEM students. The objectives will be achieved through three primary project components: 1) Entrepreneurship in science education; 2) Development of students' identity as scientists; and 3) Faculty development through teaching and learning research innovation mini-grants. The project will include a Research, Discovery and Innovation Summer Institute to engage students in the science and engineering research and development portion of the entrepreneurship cycle, which can result in product and process innovations. By means of an extracurricular activity through a highly integrated science-based entrepreneurship program at North Carolina Central University students will earn a certificate in technological entrepreneurship when they graduate with a BS degree in a STEM discipline.The information and knowledge expected to be obtained from the project will be determinants of whether students who developed entrepreneurial thinking and got entrepreneurial training will enroll in, be retained in, and persist in STEM degree programs at a higher rate; whether activities that facilitate science identity will retain students in STEM degree programs at a higher rate and improve their persistence to a STEM degree; and whether competitive mini-grants for faculty development will lead to innovations in STEM teaching and learning. Knowledge and lessons learned from the project will be disseminated to a wider audience through presentations at national meetings and publications in peer-review journals.