Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science

非裔美国人、拉丁裔和美洲原住民学者在心理科学领域的代表性不足。SPARK协会的成立是为了克服这种代表性不足的两个根本原因：渠道不足和缺乏榜样。这些未被充分代表的群体的成员进入该领域，也可能减少了获得有效指导的机会。其结果是，非裔美国人、拉丁裔或印第安人的研究生和初级教师在复杂且往往晦涩的学术道路上可能不太成功。通过卫星会议小组和研讨会、在线论坛、社交媒体推广和最先进的在线存在，SPARK协会将促进对这些代表性不足群体的学者的指导和支持。社会目标将实现(1)通过营造一个欢迎和培养年轻的非裔美国人、拉丁裔和美洲原住民学者的环境，(2)通过在这些学者的整个职业生涯中为他们的专业发展做出贡献，(3)通过创建一个网络，为心理科学中代表性不足的群体的其他学者提供联系和联系，(4)通过实施一种创新的指导模式。该协会的教职员工将邀请并指导在会议地点附近的机构就读的本科生。这种新颖的指导方式为学生带来了指导，而不是学生必须独立识别指导需求。SPARK协会将在现有的心理科学家会议的背景下建立小组讨论、面对面的指导会议和小组网络会议。卫星会议计划与2019年、2020年和2021年的心理学会会议一起举行。与位于每个会议地点附近的大学和学院的互动将通过SPARK协会的社区研究员促进。这个人将提前几个月前往会议地点，建立程序和机制，通过这些程序和机制，来自代表性不足的群体的本科生将被确定并邀请参加SPARK协会会议和心理学会会议。本科学生将被介绍到心理科学中代表性不足的群体的学者不断增长的网络和研究的本质。被邀请的本科生将被鼓励参加大会活动，并参加旨在向他们介绍该领域和潜在榜样的指导会议。高级和初级学者将在SPARK会议的背景下建立网络，建立长期的指导关系。SPARK社会的建立是为了为各个层次（本科生、研究生、博士后、教师）的少数民族学者提供一个急需的论坛，以便相互联系和分享知识。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。

African-American, Latinx, and Native American scholars are underrepresented in the psychological sciences. The SPARK Society has been created to overcome two of the root causes of this underrepresentation: an insufficient pipeline and a lack of role models. Members of these underrepresented groups who do enter the field also may have reduced access to effective mentorship. The result is that graduate students and junior faculty who are African-American, Latinx, or Native American may be less successful moving through the complex and often obscure academic track. Through satellite conference panels and workshops, online forums, social media outreach, and a state-of-the-art online presence, the SPARK Society will facilitate mentorship and support of scholars from these underrepresented groups. Society goals will be achieved (1) by fostering an environment that welcomes and nurtures junior African-American, Latinx, and Native American scholars, (2) by contributing to the professional development of these scholars throughout their career, (3) by creating a network that will provide contacts and connections to other scholars from underrepresented groups in psychological science, and (4) by implementing an innovative model of mentorship, whereby faculty members of the society will invite and mentor undergraduate students who attend institutions located in the vicinity of conference locations. This novel approach to mentorship brings mentorship to students, instead of students' having to identify mentorship needs independently. The SPARK Society will establish panel discussions, in-person mentoring sessions, and group networking meetings in the context of existing conferences for psychological scientists. Satellite meetings are planned in association with the Psychonomic Society meeting in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Interaction with universities and colleges located in the vicinity of each conference location will be facilitated through the SPARK Society's Community Fellow. This fellow will travel to conference locations several months in advance to establish procedures and mechanisms by which undergraduate students from underrepresented groups will be identified and invited to participate in the SPARK Society meeting and the meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Undergraduate students will be introduced to the growing network of scholars from underrepresented groups in the psychological sciences and to the nature of research. Invited undergraduate students will be encouraged to participate in general conference activities and to attend mentoring sessions designed to introduce them to the field and potential role models. Senior and junior scholars will network in the context of SPARK meetings to establish long-term mentorship relationships. The SPARK society has been created to provide a much-needed forum for underrepresented minority scholars across all levels (undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, faculty) to connect with each other and share knowledge.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.