Growing Pathways to STEM (Project GPS)

“通往科学、技术、工程和数学的成长之路项目”（Project GPS）将为25名在STEM领域攻读副学士学位的有学术天赋的低收入学生提供奖学金。该项目将重点关注内布拉斯加州的农村学生，并将与提供双学分和职业道路的当地高中合作，以协助早期识别和招募有学术天赋的学者。学生将受益于通过网络、团队建设和实际职业经验的指导，包括独特的、合作的大学-行业伙伴关系。支持服务将解决农村学生成功的经济和学术支持障碍。全球定位系统项目将研究导师、同辈、学生和行业之间关系的干预主义模式。这种潜在的变革模式可以通过大学-工业-社区的合作伙伴关系实现。这些伙伴关系将弥合阻碍学生成功的既定差距，并帮助学生培养社区大学毕业后生活所需的批判性思维技能。沉浸式服务学习体验（ISLE）将提供密集的定向体验，包括暑期部分，学生参与独立/合作研究，合作教育计划，或受队列组成和当地商业/行业投入影响的行业实习/工作影子体验。所有ISLE项目都将在当地范围内纳入全球可持续性概念，并在当地社区内外带来可衡量的效益。该项目将产生有关农村社区大学生参与和支持的新知识，以及支持他们完成学位并转到学士学位课程或进入STEM劳动力的有效实践。

Project Growing Pathways to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (Project GPS) will provide scholarships for 25 academically talented, low-income students pursuing Associate of Science degrees in STEM fields. The project will focus on rural students in the State of Nebraska, and will work with local high schools that offer both dual credit and career pathways, to assist in early identification and recruitment of academically talented scholars. Students will benefit from mentorship through networking, team-building, and practical career experience, that includes unique, collaborative college-industry partnerships. Support services will address financial and academic support barriers specific to rural student success. Project GPS will investigate an interventionist model of the relationships between mentors, cohorts, students, and industry. This potentially transformative model is possible through college-industry-community partnerships. These partnerships will bridge established gaps that inhibit student success, and help students develop critical thinking skills needed for life beyond the community college. An Immersive Service Learning Experience (ISLE) will provide an intensive orientation experience and include a summer component with student participation in independent/collaborative research, a cooperative education program, or industry internship/job shadow experiences influenced by cohort composition and local business/industry input. All ISLE projects will incorporate global sustainability concepts on a local scale, with intended measurable benefits in and beyond the local community. The project will generate new knowledge regarding the engagement and support of rural, community college students, and effective practices for supporting their degree completion and transfer to baccalaureate degree programs or entry into the STEM workforce.