Frederick Community College STEM Scholars

美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）项目支持弗雷德里克社区学院表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生的保留和毕业。在5年的时间里，该项目将为3组10名学生提供30个奖学金，这些学生正在攻读STEM学科的副学士学位。该计划将为这些学者提供所需的资源和支持，以确定适当的stem相关学术和职业道路，并全职致力于实现与他们选择的道路相关的目标。该项目将满足培养更多学生成为STEM专业人士的需求。有了财政支持、教师指导、接触研究、行业经验和STEM相关社区服务的机会，学生不仅将成为STEM学生，而且将成为进入一门学科的专业人士和强大的STEM社区的成员。该项目将寻求对如何利用STEM奖学金和学生干预措施提高学生入学率和成功率（保留、完成和/或转学）提供新的理解。该项目的研究将建立并扩展先前的研究，通过奖学金和跨学科研讨会，STEM专业的保留模式以及美国完整学院确定的学生干预的最佳实践来增加STEM入学率。除了这些活动，STEM学者计划还将举办一系列演讲、实地考察、服务学习机会和其他课外活动，以帮助建立群体身份。通过访谈和调查，该项目计划确定项目的哪些部分吸引了学生，这些部分如何以及为什么影响了他们的学业和社会，以及这些经历如何对他们未来的成功产生持久的变化。它还将审查涵盖全部就读费用的奖学金对学生就业的影响。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。

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program supports the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Frederick Community College. Throughout its 5 years, this project will fund 30 scholarships in 3 groups of 10 students who are pursuing associate's degrees in STEM disciplines. The program will offer these scholars the resources and support needed to identify appropriate STEM-related academic and career pathways and make a full-time commitment to achieving their goals related to their chosen pathways. The project will answer the need to train more students to become STEM professionals. With financial support, faculty mentoring, exposure to research, industry experiences, and opportunities for STEM-related community service, students will develop an identity not only as STEM students, but as professionals entering a discipline and members of a robust STEM community.This project will seek to provide new understandings of how to improve student enrollment and success (retention, completion, and/or transfer) using STEM scholarship funds and student interventions. The research in the project will build upon and extend prior studies around increasing STEM enrollment using scholarships and interdisciplinary seminars, retention models for STEM majors, and best practices for student intervention identified by Complete College America. Along with these activities, a speaker series, field trips, service learning opportunities, and other co-curricular events will be created by the STEM Scholars program to aid in the creation of a cohort identity. Through interviews and surveys, the program plans to determine which parts of the program attracted students, how and why these components affected them academically and socially, and how these experiences made lasting changes to their future success. It will also examine the impact of the scholarships covering the entire cost of attendance on students' employment.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.