EAGER: Collaborative Research: Enhancing Impact of Broadening Participation in Computing Efforts through the STARS Cohort Conference Attendance Program

坦普尔大学与北卡罗来纳州立大学合作，将利用他们团队在学术、研究和服务(STARS)计算联盟中与学生和技术的经验来创建一项新的活动-STAR队列会议出席计划。这项工作将开发、测试和评估一种模型，教师可以使用该模型来支持参加计算机科学(CS)会议的学生队列。STAR队列模式已被证明可以增加学生的归属感、作为计算机专业人员的认同感、参与度和学术成果，对计算机行业代表不足的群体的学生来说，这是不成比例的积极好处。该项目将推广这一模式，让计算机和信息科学与工程部(CEISE)理事会的首席调查员参与并培训他们在参加会议的学生中建立社区。STAR群组会议出席方案将支持开发该模型，这是一个传播该模型的试点讲习班，为20名PI提供参加STAR群组培训讲习班的奖学金，为本科生、研究生和教职员工(特别是少数群体服务机构的教职员工)提供100个奖学金，用于参加理查德·塔皮亚计算机多样性庆祝活动或格蕾丝·霍珀5人计算领域妇女庆祝活动。因此，STAR队列计划将为希望参与有意义的BPC努力的新PI提供一个较低的进入门槛，希望这一经验将作为一个挂钩，让新加入BPC的PI参与其本国机构的会议后BPC队列活动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Temple University, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, will use their team's experience with the Students and Technology in Academics, Research, and Service (STARS) Computing Alliance to create a new activity - the STARS Cohort Conference Attendance Program. The effort will develop, test, and evaluate a model that faculty can use to support cohorts of students attending computer science (CS) conferences. The STARS cohort model has been shown to increase students' sense of belonging, identity as computing professionals, engagement, and academic outcomes, with disproportionately positive benefits for students from underrepresented groups in computing. This project will extend that model, engaging and training members of the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate's Principal Investigators (PIs) in building community among students attending conferences. The STARS Cohort Conference Attendance Program will support the development of the model, a pilot workshop to disseminate that model, provide scholarships for 20 PIs to attend a STARS Cohorts training workshop, supply 100 scholarships for undergraduate, graduate students, and faculty (particularly those from Minority Serving Institutions) to attend either the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing or the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 5-person cohorts. Thus, the STARS Cohort program will provide a low barrier to entry for new PIs wishing to engage in meaningful BPC efforts, in the hopes that the experience will serve as a hook to engage the new-to-BPC PIs in post-conference BPC cohort activities at their home institutions.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.