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

天普大学与北卡罗来纳州州立大学合作，将利用他们的团队在学生和学术、研究和服务技术（STARS）计算联盟中的经验，创建一个新的活动--STARS队列会议出席计划。这项工作将开发，测试和评估一个模型，教师可以用来支持参加计算机科学（CS）会议的学生群体。STARS队列模型已被证明可以增加学生的归属感，作为计算专业人员的身份，参与度和学术成果，对计算中代表性不足的群体的学生有不成比例的积极好处。 该项目将扩展该模型，参与和培训计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）理事会的主要调查员（PI）的成员，在参加会议的学生中建立社区。STARS队列会议出席方案将支持该模型的开发，一个传播该模型的试点讲习班，为20名PI提供奖学金参加STARS队列培训讲习班，为本科生，研究生提供100个奖学金，和教师（特别是少数民族服务机构）参加Richard Tapia计算机多样性庆祝活动或Grace Hopper计算机女性庆祝活动的5人队列。因此，STARS队列计划将为希望参与有意义的BPC工作的新PI提供低门槛，希望这一经验将成为吸引新加入BPC的PI参与后该奖项反映了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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

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.