ENGAGE: Educating the Next Generation of Geoscientists

教育地球科学家的下一代（ENGAGE）项目正在为代表性不足的群体，主要是西班牙裔的成员提供机会，通过课堂，讲座，研讨会和实地经验，在正式和非正式的环境中体验地球科学。 圣何塞州立大学、弗朗西斯科州立大学和位于门洛帕克的美国地质调查局之间的合作正在开发利用少数民族的社会和文化价值观来支持动机、学习和学生对自己能力的信心的方法。 克服学术，社会文化和经济障碍的策略包括客座讲座和研讨会，家庭科学之夜，实验室和实地研究经验在本科课程的整合，带薪暑期实习和奖学金，并加强地区社区学院的低水平本科课程和SJSU的高水平地球科学专业课程之间的途径。 这些综合努力服务于增加追求和实现地球科学本科学位的学生的多样性，并增加在STEM领域代表性不足的社区中的地球系统科学素养的重要目标。

The Educating the Next Generation of Geoscientists (ENGAGE) project is providing opportunities for members of underrepresented groups, primarily Hispanic, to experience the geosciences in formal and informal settings via classroom, lecture, workshop, and field experiences. This collaboration between San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, and the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, is developing approaches that make use of the social and cultural values ethnic groups to support motivation, learning, and student confidence in their own abilities. Strategies to overcome academic, socio-cultural, and economic obstacles include guest lectures and workshops, family science nights, integration of laboratory and field research experiences in the undergraduate curriculum, paid summer internships and scholarships, and strengthening of pathways between lower level undergraduate programs in area community colleges and the upper level geoscience majors program at SJSU. These combined efforts serve the important goals of increasing the diversity of students pursuing and achieving undergraduate degrees in the geosciences and increasing Earth System Science literacy among communities that are underrepresented in the STEM fields.