GEO Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity Ideas Lab

正如总统科学技术顾问委员会（PCAST）和国家研究委员会的许多报告所阐明的那样，扩大传统上代表性不足的少数民族在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中的参与是国家的重中之重，因为它有助于创新和生产研究企业。尽管在一些STEM社区内实现更大的多样性方面取得了进展，但扩大使用有效实践来增加多样性以在国家一级实现更大的影响一直是一项挑战。为了应对这一挑战，NSF在2016财年启动了一项新的NSF范围内的计划，名为“在工程和科学多样性中未被充分代表的学习者社区纳入全国”（NSF INCLUDES）。地球科学理事会（GEO）正在通过GEO多样性领导机会（GOLD）计划为NSF INCLUDES计划做出贡献，该计划利用创意实验室机制创建创新的跨学科方法，以建立一个能够帮助推进NSF扩大参与目标和宗旨的地球科学家国家网络。创意实验室的参与者来自地球科学、社会心理学、制度转型、扩大参与研究和领导力发展研究等领域的专业人士。美国工程教育学会（ASEE）与Knowinnovation， Inc. （KI）合作，通过为GOLD创意实验室（将于2016年3月20日至24日举行）提供旅行和后勤支持来支持GOLD计划，并对创意实验室方法在开发和征求NSF提案方面的效用和效益进行研究。该项目建立在2014财年与改善本科STEM教育（IUSE）计划一起提供的三个创意实验室实施期间进行的初步研究的基础上，该研究确定了三个关键参数，这些参数可以影响创意实验室在开发创造性新想法方面的最终成功。在GOLD创意实验室期间，通过EAGER奖进行的研究将有助于确认或澄清这些初步发现。创意实验室的过程是一个相当新的机制，用于向国家科学基金会提出建议；因此，这项参与性行动研究的结果将有助于确定在何种情况下使用创意实验室机制是最有益的。

As articulated in numerous reports from the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) and the National Research Council, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented minorities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines is a high priority for the Nation in that it contributes to an innovative and productive research enterprise. Although progress is being made in achieving greater diversity within some STEM communities, it has been challenging to scale up the use of effective practices for increasing diversity in order to realize greater impact at the national level. To address this challenge, NSF has launched a new NSF-wide FY 2016 initiative called "Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners that have been Underrepresented for Diversity in Engineering and Science" (NSF INCLUDES). The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) is contributing to the NSF INCLUDES initiative through the GEO Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity (GOLD) program, which is using the Ideas Lab mechanism to create innovate, interdisciplinary approaches for building a national network of geoscientists who can help to advance NSF's broadening participation goals and objectives. Participants in the Ideas Lab are being recruited from communities with expertise in the geosciences, social-psychology, institutional transformation, broadening participation research, and research on leadership development.The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), in collaboration with Knowinnovation, Inc. (KI), is supporting the GOLD program by providing travel and logistical support for the GOLD Ideas Lab (being held March 20-24, 2016) and conducting research on the utility and benefits of the Ideas Lab approach for developing and soliciting NSF proposals. The project builds on preliminary research conducted during the implementation of three Ideas Labs offered in FY 2014 in conjunction with the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program, which identified three key parameters that can influence the ultimate success of Ideas Labs for developing creative new ideas. The research to be undertaken through this EAGER award during the GOLD Ideas Lab will help to confirm or clarify these preliminary findings. The Ideas Lab process is a fairly new mechanism for generation of proposals to NSF; as such, the findings of this participatory action research study will help to identify the circumstances under which use of the Ideas Lab mechanism is most beneficial.