NSF INCLUDES PLANNING GRANT: Women in a Network of Discovery (WIND)

NSF INCLUDES规划资助项目-发现网络中的女性（WIND）这项NSF INCLUDES规划资助由美国国家科学基金会全国工程和科学领域代表性不足的发现者学习者社区（NSF INCLUDES）资助，这是一项全面的国家倡议，旨在通过关注多样性、包容性和大规模扩大STEM参与来增强美国在发现和创新方面的领导地位。这项计划拨款的目标是增加来自少数民族、低收入和第一代群体的女工程师的数量。美国需要更多的女性工程师，为经济和国家安全做出贡献，并通过包容性创新加强工程研究、商业化和产品开发。包容性创新的活力将对学术、企业、国家安全竞争力产生积极影响。WIND方法以研究为基础，包括凯特林基金会的学习交流模型，该模型通过所有利益相关者参与愿景、资产映射和决策，鼓励社区内的协作变革。规划赠款将用于召集具有一系列专业知识和经验的合作伙伴，为北卡罗来纳州的妇女，特别是来自代表性不足群体的妇女建立一条通往工程的道路。最初的合作伙伴包括Alamance- burlington学校系统（K-12）、Alamance社区学院（副学士学位）、Elon大学和北卡罗莱纳州立大学（学士学位）。WIND项目体现了合作基础设施建设的伙伴关系要素，并将努力开发一个可扩展到北卡罗来纳州和全国的模型和网络。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。

NSF INCLUDES Planning Grants Project - Women in a Network of Discovery (WIND)This NSF INCLUDES planning grant is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion, and broadening participation in STEM at scale. The goal of this planning grant is to increase the number of women engineers from minority, low-income, and first-generation groups. The U.S. needs more women engineers to contribute to economic and national security and strengthen engineering research, commercialization, and product development through inclusive innovation. The vibrancy of inclusive innovation will positively impact academic, business, and national security competitiveness.The WIND approach is research-based and includes the Kettering Foundation’s Learning Exchanges Model, which encourages collaborative change within communities through the participation of all stakeholders in visioning, asset mapping, and decision making. The planning grant will be used to convene partners with a range of expertise and experience to build a pathway to engineering for women in North Carolina, particularly women from underrepresented groups. Initial partners include Alamance-Burlington School System (K-12), Alamance Community College (Associate Degree), and Elon University and North Carolina State University (Bachelor's Degree). The WIND project exemplifies the partnerships element of collaborative infrastructure building and efforts will be directed to developing a model and network that are scalable to the state of North Carolina and the Nation.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.