Noyce in Northern Virginia

第一轨道项目的合作伙伴包括乔治梅森大学（GMU）、北弗吉尼亚社区学院（NOVA）以及费尔法克斯和普林斯县公立学校。NOVA和GMU之间的合作旨在确保NOVA学生顺利过渡到GMU的课程，并鼓励他们既主修科学，又寻求STEM领域的教学证书。该项目为GMU和NOVA的大二学生和下学期新生提供本科学习助学金（GMU共有50人，NOVA有83人），为有兴趣成为中学STEM教师的初中和高中STEM专业学生提供诺伊斯奖学金（总共36人），并简化了诺伊斯奖学金获得者获得教师认证的流程。智力优势：该项目以科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的一个非常成功的Noyce项目为模板，并利用了乔治梅森大学现有的一个项目，该项目旨在增加招募、保留和毕业的STEM专业学生数量，即科学学院加速器项目（该项目包括数学系、物理系、化学系、生物系、地质系和法医学系）。更广泛的影响：该项目更广泛的影响在于它的潜力，通过一个学习助理计划，包括对大学和K-12级别教学的特别关注，为学生在学术生涯早期参与一个既增加了他们在STEM方面的内容知识，又增加了他们在STEM教学方面的兴趣和技能的项目树立了一个榜样。

Partners for this Track 1 project include George Mason University (GMU), Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), and the Fairfax and Prince County Public Schools. The partnership between NOVA and GMU is designed to insure that NOVA students have a smooth transition into the program at GMU and to encourage them to both major in a science and seek a teaching credential in a STEM field. The project offers Undergraduate Learning Assistantships to sophomores and second semester freshman at both GMU and NOVA (a total of 50 at GMU and 83 at NOVA), Noyce Scholarships to junior and senior STEM majors interested in becoming secondary school STEM teachers (a total of 36) and a streamlined process for Noyce Fellows to gain teacher certification. Intellectual Merit: The project is modeled after a highly successful Noyce project at the University of Colorado Boulder and takes advantage of an existing project at George Mason established to increase the number of STEM majors recruited retained and graduated, The College of Science Accelerator Program (a program that includes the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, and Forensic Sciences). Broader Impact: The broader impacts of the project are its potential, through a Learning Assistants Program that includes specific attention to teaching at both the university and K-12 level, to set a model for involving students early in their academic career in a program that both adds to their content knowledge in STEM and to their interest and skills in teaching STEM.