The Sci-Tech Scholars Enrichment Project

在美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）项目的资助下，科技学者充实项目将支持北卡罗来纳农业和技术州立大学（一所历史悠久的黑人大学）中表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生。S-STEM第二轨道项目将侧重于了解促进少数族裔参与STEM劳动力的因素。sciitech将在5年内向国家需要的物理、数学、化学、电子技术专业的本科生提供100名奖学金。该项目将解决STEM教育中持续存在的挑战：了解哪些活动和干预措施将产生最有效的管道建设策略。该项目有可能增加和多样化STEM劳动力，加深对HBCU贫困STEM学生所面临挑战的了解，并培养未来未被充分代表的少数民族教师的教学技能。科技学者计划旨在提高物理、数学、化学和电子技术专业学生的人数和毕业率。它还旨在为学生成功地开始研究生学习或进入STEM劳动力做好准备。科技学者将采用以学生为中心的主动学习课堂活动，增加实践课程，并注重积极的鼓励，而不是发现学生的不足。该项目的机构目标有两个部分：1)开发和测试一个学生成功的模型，该模型可以在整个大学范围内使用，以指导STEM中代表性不足的少数民族学生；2)确定支持少数族裔和非少数族裔学生发展STEM相关研究生课程或STEM劳动力的方法。该项目将在5年内每年招收20名在物理、数学、化学、电子技术等领域有学术天赋的低收入家庭学生。它将采用一种项目模式，让学生在课程的早期就参与研究，纳入研究小组，并让系主任和教师参与项目的各个方面，包括招聘、教学、指导研究以及特殊活动和活动。该模式将与生活学习社区相结合，并支持以学生为中心的主动学习。通过研究sciitech参与者的经验、挑战和成功，该项目旨在提高设计和开发解决方案所需的知识，以解决从入学到毕业的关键差距。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, the SciTech Scholars Enrichment Project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a Historically Black College & University (HBCU). This S-STEM Track 2 project will focus on understanding the factors that nurture minority participation in the STEM workforce. SciTech will award 100 scholarships over five years to undergraduate students majoring in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and electronics technology, all of which are areas of national need. This project will address a persistent challenge in STEM education: understanding which activities and interventions will produce the most efficient pipeline-building strategies. This project has the potential to increase and diversify the STEM workforce, deepen knowledge about the challenges faced by underprivileged STEM students at an HBCU, and develop the teaching skills of future underrepresented minority faculty. SciTech Scholars aims to increase the number and graduation rate of students majoring in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and electronics technology. It also aims to prepare the students to successfully embark on graduate studies or enter the STEM workforce. SciTech Scholars will employ student-centered active learning classroom activities, increased hands-on curricula, and a focus on positive encouragement rather than on perceived student deficiencies. The institutional goal of the project has two parts: 1) develop and test a model for student success that can be used across the University to mentor underrepresented minority students in STEM; and 2) identify methods that support the development of students, both minority and non-minority groups, for STEM-related graduate programs or the STEM workforce. The project will recruit twenty academically talented low-income students enrolled in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and electronics technology each year for five years. It will employ a program model that exposes students to research early in the curriculum, incorporates study groups, and involves department chairs and faculty in all aspects of the program, including recruitment, teaching, mentoring research as well as special events and activities. The model will be coupled with a living learning community and support for student-centered active learning. By studying the experiences, challenges, and successes of SciTech participants, the project aims to advance the knowledge needed to design and develop solutions to critical gaps from matriculation to graduation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.