Achieving Community College Excellence, Success and Scholarship (ACCESS) in Engineering and Computer Science

马里兰州罗克维尔蒙哥马利学院的国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学（S-STEM）项目将为有学术天赋的工程和计算机科学专业的学生提供奖学金和支持服务。该项目将解决对大量工程和计算机科学专业人员的需求，以及增加这些专业人员在这些领域中代表性不足的群体的比例的需求。蒙哥马利学院在工程和计算机科学S-STEM项目中实现社区学院卓越，成功和奖学金（ACCESS）的主要目标将包括增加获得工程和计算机科学学士学位的社区学院学生的数量，并为从社区学院过渡到四年制大学的学生提供可扩展的工程教育模式。学生将从高中和大学水平的数学和科学课程中招募，并根据学业成功的认知和非认知相关表现出的学术潜力进行选择。为期五年的ACCESS项目将提供136个奖学金，并通过扩展最佳实践和在现有实践的基础上为5个学生群体提供支持，这些实践包括高中外展、强化教师和同伴支持、本科生研究机会、转学支持、强有力的衔接协议以及与选定的四年制工程学院的项目加强。在整个项目中，将通过对多个数据源的分析来评估其成功与否，包括对学生支持服务、学生技能发展以及学生对访谈和焦点小组问题的回答的评估。该项目将有助于理解成功的学生奖学金和支持项目的属性和实践，如综合的、基于探究的教学方法；学生支持系统；结构化的两年制/四年制课程衔接；以及转学和职业咨询。

This National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland will provide scholarships and support services to academically-talented students majoring in engineering and computer science who demonstrate financial need. The project will address the need for larger numbers of engineering and computer science professionals, as well as the need to increase the proportion of these professionals who are from groups underrepresented in these fields.Main goals of the Achieving Community College Excellence, Success and Scholarship (ACCESS) in Engineering and Computer Science S-STEM program at Montgomery College will include increasing the number of community college students who earn bachelor's degrees in engineering and computer science, and contributing to the development of a scalable engineering education model for students transitioning from community colleges to four-year institutions. Students will be recruited from high schools and college-level math and science courses, and selected based on academic potential demonstrated via cognitive and non-cognitive correlates of academic success. The five-year ACCESS project will provide 136 scholarships and support five cohorts of students by expanding on best practices and building on current practices involving high school outreach, intensive faculty and peer support, undergraduate research opportunities, transfer support, and strong articulation agreements and programmatic enhancements with select four-year engineering colleges. Throughout the project, its success will be evaluated via analyses of multiple data sources, including assessments of student support services, student skills development, and student responses to interview and focus group questions. The project is expected to contribute to understanding attributes and practices of successful student scholarship and support programs, such as integrated, inquiry-based instructional methodologies; student support systems; structured two-year/four-year program articulations; and transfer and career advising.