Travel Awards for Students from Underrepresented Groups for the 2017 Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Meeting

认知发展学会（CDS）旨在促进出席，在其2017年会议上，来自传统上在发展科学中代表性不足的群体的年轻学者。该奖项将支持旅行奖，研究生，博士后，和年轻的研究人员从这些群体，广泛定义。旅行奖励增加了年轻学者有机会参加CDS并在CDS上展示他们的工作的可能性，并将通过参与指导计划来支持他们，该计划旨在确保年轻学者在会议上获得富有成效的体验。本奖项更广泛的影响是通过加强传统上代表性不足的群体的年轻学者的专业网络，增加会议经验在会议本身之外持续的可能性。本奖项将通过几种机制增加CDS成员的多样性。支持前往CDS会议增加了代表性不足群体的年轻学者能够参加会议的人数。为了促进获奖者的网络，专业社交和在社会中的保留，资金将用于指导计划，将每个年轻学者与该领域更有经验的学者相匹配，一个具有相似的研究兴趣。通过在会议开始时与他们的导师举行有组织的会议，学员将有机会建立新的专业关系并扩大他们的学术网络。导师将通过参加青年学者的演讲来支持他们的学员。此外，青年学者将相互会晤并与2015年旅行奖获得者会晤，以培养一个来自代表性不足群体的青年学者社区。 最后，CDS将在颁奖典礼上表彰2017年旅游奖的获奖者。2017年会议后，年轻学者及其导师的匿名反馈将有助于确保CDS能够提高其旅行奖励的有效性，以实现其增加传统上代表性不足的学者参与该领域的目标。

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) seeks to promote the attendance, at its 2017 meeting, of young scholars from groups traditionally underrepresented in the Developmental Sciences. This award will support travel awards to graduate students, post-docs, and young investigators from these groups, broadly defined. Travel awards increase the likelihood that young scholars will have the means to attend and present their work at CDS, and will support them through their participation in a mentoring program, designed to ensure that young scholars will have a productive experience at the conference. A broader impact of the present award is to increase the likelihood that the conference experience endures beyond the conference itself by strengthening the professional networks of young scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups. The present award will increase the diversity of the CDS membership through several mechanisms. Supporting travel to the CDS conference increases the number of young scholars from underrepresented groups who are able to attend the conference. To promote the awardees' networking, professional socialization, and retention in the Society, funds will be used for a mentoring program that will match each young scholar with a more experienced scholar in the field, one with similar research interests. Through an organized meeting at the start of the conference with their mentors, mentees will have the opportunity to forge new professional relationships and broaden their academic network. Mentors will support their mentees by attending the young scholars' presentations. In addition, the young scholars will meet with each other and with the recipients of the 2015 travel awards to foster a community of young scholars from underrepresented groups. Finally, CDS will highlight the recipients of the 2017 travel awards at the conference by acknowledging them during an awards ceremony. Anonymous feedback from the young scholars and their mentors following the 2017 meeting will help ensure that CDS can improve upon the effectiveness of its travel awards in achieving its goal of increasing the involvement of scholars traditionally under-represented in the field.