Noyce and S-STEM Mini-conference for Nevada and Southern Utah

迪克西州立大学将在拉斯维加斯的内华达州大学组织一个提案写作研讨会。研讨会的主要活动将由NSF工作人员进行，并包括该地区过去的NSF赠款接受者的参与。PI估计将有45名来自犹他州南部和内华达州的与会者参加研讨会。她希望南犹他州大学（SUU）、迪克西州立大学（DSU）、拉斯维加斯的内华达州大学、南内华达州学院（CSN）、里诺的内华达州大学和内华达州州立学院（NSC）的教职员工出席。预计将有45名与会者，其中29人已表示有兴趣参加。该补助金将支付来自SUU，DSU和里诺的参与者的差旅费，以及工作午餐和讨论休息期间的膳食和茶点。研讨会旨在提高对本科教育部NSF计划资助机会的认识，该地区没有任何诺伊斯赠款。该计划包括与当前NSF赠款接受者的小组讨论，资助机会的概述，有效的赠款写作研讨会，模拟审查小组，头脑风暴会议开始赠款写作想法，以及问答会议。参与者的选择将侧重于来自不同学校和STEM学科的代表性。由于该地区高需求学校需要合格的中学STEM教师，因此产生高影响力的Noyce提案的潜力很大。目标学校的学生人数也使他们成为S-STEM提案的良好潜在地点。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Dixie State University will organize a proposal-writing workshop at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. The main activities of the workshop will be conducted by NSF staff and include participation of past NSF grant recipients in the area. The PI estimates that there will be 45 participants at the workshop from southern Utah and Nevada. She expects attendance from faculty members at Southern Utah University (SUU), Dixie State University (DSU), the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, the College of Southern Nevada (CSN), the University of Nevada at Reno, and Nevada State College (NSC). Twenty-nine of the anticipated forty-five participants have already expressed an interest in attending. The grant will cover travel costs for participants from SUU, DSU, and Reno as well as meals and refreshments for working lunches and discussion breaks during the workshop.The workshop is designed to raise awareness of funding opportunities for NSF program in the Division of Undergraduate Education in a geographical area that does not have any Noyce grants. The program includes a panel discussion with current NSF grant recipients, an outline of funding opportunities, a workshop on effective grant writing, a mock review panel, a brainstorming session to get started on grant writing ideas, and a question and answer session. Participant selection will focus on a diversity of representation from different schools and STEM disciplines. Because of the need for qualified secondary STEM teachers in high-needs schools in this geographical region, the potential for generating high-impact Noyce proposals is high. The student population in the targeted schools make them good potential sites for S-STEM proposals as well.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.