Doctoral Dissertation Research: Spelbots: A Case Study for fostering inclusive environments for STEM learning

在加州大学河滨分校人类学家约兰达·摩西的指导下，博士生Holly O Okonkwo将对斯派曼·科列格？S机器人项目的参与者进行人种学研究。这项研究将有助于确定斯佩尔曼学院是如何成功地利用联邦科学教育政策将自己定位为国家科学制作人的方式。斯佩尔曼学院是一所历史上的黑人女子文科学院，被指定为NSF模范机构。这个项目将帮助我们加深对如何利用当地机构的优势和历史使命为STEM学习创造内在包容性的环境的理解，从而有助于NSF的使命，即增加科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域中代表性不足背景的学生的参与。

Under the supervision of anthropologist, Yolanda Moses at UC Riverside, Ph.D. student Holly O Okonkwo will conduct an ethnographic study of participants in Spellman Colleg'?s robotics program. This study will help identify the ways in which Spelman College, a historically black women's liberal arts college designated as an NSF Model Institution, has successfully used federal science education policy to position itself as a national science producer. This project will help increase our understanding of "how" to foster inherently inclusive environments for STEM learning utilizing the strengths of the local institution and its historical mission and thus should contribute to NSF's mission of increasing the participation on students from underrepresented backgrounds in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.