GP-IMPACT: GeoCAT Workshop: Geoscience Careers Ambassador Training Workshop: Manhattan, KS -Summer 2020

第1部分强调招收和支持未被充分代表的学生主修地球科学，这对于未来建立一支强大的地球科学队伍非常重要，特别是在堪萨斯州，因为这些行业严重依赖水、能源和其他自然资源的存在和有效管理。堪萨斯州的长期经济健康取决于加强对STEM职业的了解，并成功地将少数族裔学生融入STEM劳动力大军。该项目建议通过为堪萨斯州少数族裔服务于高中和社区大学的教育工作者以及堪萨斯州4-H青年发展(YD)教育工作者和志愿者创建地球科学职业大使培训(GeoCAT)讲习班，增加对地球科学的参与。研讨会将建立机构合作，为学生从高中和社区大学过渡到四年制地质学本科课程提供可持续的机制。在堪萨斯州4-H YD教育工作者的参与下，合作超越了机构的限制，涉及堪萨斯州所有105个县的社区。第2部分该项目建议创建一个强大的合作网络，由教育工作者和社区志愿者组成，作为GeoCAT大使，他们对地球科学多样性和应对增加参与地球科学的挑战所需的专业知识有着共同的兴趣。PIS将采用讲习班的形式创建和完善一个模式，以改进传统上任职人数不足的群体的招生工作。GeoCAT讲习班将在每年夏季持续5天，为期3年，有30名参与者以及许多地球科学专业人员作为榜样和导师参加。讲习班的设计要点是：(1)有针对性地从少数族裔服务机构和堪萨斯州4-H YD志愿者中招募参与者，(2)导师-导师关系，(3)定期评估，以及(4)外联。参与者和导师将在研讨会期间共同制作与地球科学职业相关的材料，以在他们的课程中或在他们的家庭机构和当地社区的课外计划中使用，向青年和学生介绍地球科学家的身份，并帮助他们获得成为社区积极力量所需的技能。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。

Part 1The emphasis on recruiting and supporting underrepresented students in to major in geosciences is important to building a strong geosciences workforce in the future, particularly in Kansas, with industries that depend heavily on the existence and effective management of water, energy and other natural resources. The long-term economic health of Kansas depends on strengthening the knowledge of STEM careers and successfully integrating minority students into the STEM workforce. This project proposes to increase participation in geosciences by creating a Geosciences Career Ambassador Training (GeoCAT) Workshop for educators from minority serving high schools and community colleges in Kansas as well as Kansas 4-H Youth Development (YD) educators and volunteers. The workshop will establish institutional collaborations that provide sustainable mechanisms for facilitating transitions of students from high schools and community colleges to a four-year geology undergraduate program. With involvement of Kansas 4-H YD educators, the collaborations are beyond institutional limits and involves communities across all one hundred and five counties of Kansas.Part 2This project proposes to create a strong collaborative network of educators and community volunteers, as GeoCAT ambassadors, with common interests in geoscience diversity and the expertise needed to tackle the challenge of increasing participation in geoscience. PIs will create and refine a model, using a workshop format, for improving recruitment of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. The GeoCAT workshop will last five days during the summer each year for 3 years and include 30 participants as well as numerous geoscience professionals as role models and mentors. Design elements of the workshop are: (1) targeted recruitment of participants from minority serving institutions and Kansas 4-H YD volunteers, (2) mentee-mentor relationships, (3) regular evaluation, and (4) outreach. Participants and mentors will work together during the workshops to produce geoscience career related materials to use in their curriculum or during after school programs at their home institutions and and local communities to introduce identities of geoscientists to youth and students and help them gain the skills needed to be proactive forces in their communities.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.