GP:EXTRA - Engaging Community College Students in Undergraduate Research

这个GP-EXTRA项目的主要目标是增加埃弗雷特社区学院海洋研究学院学院（ORCA）的双重入学高中学生的数量，他们确定有兴趣在获得高中文凭后攻读地球科学学士学位。通过在夏季与私人和政府合作者进行有针对性的海洋学研究，该项目将增加对在大学攻读地球科学专业感兴趣的高中毕业生的数量。研究经验在吸引和留住STEM领域的学生方面是有效的，该项目旨在嵌入合作和指导。 为女性提供指导和由女性提供指导增加了改变STEM长期文化的可能性，在STEM中，竞争比合作和协作更重要。这种方法提高了获得STEM服务不足的学生的机会：女性，有色人种学生和低收入学生。通过远程监测CTD仪器的部署和ORCA教师/工作人员的精心指导，以及夏季来自三个不同就业部门的实践地球科学家，每年有十名学生将体验实地工作，监测仪器和数据流管理。这种经验将形成学生产生进一步的可测试问题的基础，同时在沿着财政支持的学年期间获得项目团队和科学合作者的研究支持。学生将通过在地球科学会议和区域活动中展示他们的研究来展示他们向独立研究人员的过渡。暑期研究经验代表了一种有效的机制，以留住本科生，一旦他们在干管道，但不太了解的是暑期研究经验对高中毕业生的影响，作为一个动机的声明一个特定的干专业。通过提供接触地球科学职业生涯的各个方面，特别关注合作，关系建设和指导的影响，该项目将有助于了解如何将研究嵌入双招生课程，以及哪些方面最具影响力。该项目还提高了对普吉湾的认识，普吉湾仍然是一个未充分研究的河口。当地对复杂系统的理解是现场部署的结果，现场部署很少提供本项目将创建的长期数据流。最近，该地区的温度急剧上升，需要全年监测。让在地球科学中代表性不足的高中生参与实时仪器的实际部署，让他们能够利用和提取复杂的数据流，并与他人分享这些数据，这对学生来说是一个强大的、建立信心的机会，因为他们增加了社区联系。该项目的更广泛的影响将为学生提供更多的机会，展示他们的工作，无论是在本地，国家和国际上，建立他们的信心和机会，把自己看作是科学家。让双重入学的学生参与真实的研究，优化了最大限度地提高个人参与创造新知识的意图。由于数据是在线实时遥测的，任何人都可以访问它。这让学生们感到自豪，他们将进一步参与需要创新解决方案的问题，以造福整个社会。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The primary goal of this GP-EXTRA project is to increase the number of dually enrolled high school students at Everett Community College's Ocean Research College Academy (ORCA) who identify an interest in pursuing a geosciences baccalaureate degree upon earning their high school diploma. Through targeted, oceanographic research experiences with private and governmental collaborators during the summer that continues into the academic year, this project will increase the number of high school seniors professing an interest in pursuing a geoscience major in university. Research experiences are effective in attracting and retaining students in STEM fields, and this project seeks to embed collaboration and mentoring. Mentoring for and by women increases the likelihood of changing the longstanding culture in STEM, where competition is valued over cooperation and collaboration. This approach enhances access for underserved students in STEM: women, students of color and low income students.Through the deployment of remote monitoring CTD instrumentation and deliberate mentoring by the ORCA faculty/staff and practicing geoscientists from three different employment sectors during the summer, ten students annually will experience field work, monitoring instrumentation and management of the data stream. This experience will form the basis for students to generate further testable questions while receiving research support by the project team and scientific collaborators during the academic year along with financial support. Students will demonstrate their transition to independent researchers through showcasing their research at geoscience conferences, and regional events. Summer research experiences represent an effective mechanism to retain undergraduate students once they are in the STEM pipeline, but less understood is the impact a summer research experience has on high school seniors as a motivator for declaration of a specific STEM major. By providing exposure to all aspects of a geoscience career, with special attention given to the influence of collaboration, relationship building and mentoring, this project will contribute to an understanding of how to embed research into dual enrollment coursework and which aspects are the most impactful. This project also advances knowledge specific to the Puget Sound which remains an understudied estuary. Local understanding of complex systems is a result of in-situ deployments, which rarely provide the long-term data stream that this project will create. Recent, drastic temperature spikes in the area require year round monitoring. Engaging high school students underrepresented in geosciences in the hands-on deployment of real-time instruments, giving them access to utilize and distill the complicated data stream and share these data with others represents powerful, confidence building opportunities for students as they increase community connections. The broader impacts of this project will provide further opportunities for students to showcase their work, both locally, nationally, and internationally, building their confidence and the opportunity view themselves as scientists. Engaging dually enrolled students in authentic research optimizes the intent to maximize the personal involvement in creating new knowledge. Since data is telemetered live online, anyone has access to it. This provides pride of ownership by the students, who will then further engage in problems that require innovative solutions to benefit society as a whole.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.