BPINNOVATE: Intersectionality in Building STEM Entrepreneurship Capacity: Rurality, Indigeneity, and Technology

新墨西哥州中部地区是大量美洲原住民和拉美裔美国人的家园，他们在STEM中的代表性传统上很低。该州还拥有大量以STEM为重点的教育和研究，包括向清洁能源的过渡，这将为该地区提供新的就业机会和三个国家实验室。然而，没有任何联盟通过与其传统相关的技术转让和创业培训将新墨西哥州STEM专业的学生直接与创新联系起来。拟议的活动具有极大的潜力，可以积极影响具有社会意义的成果，包括促进美洲原住民、西班牙裔和低收入人口中的妇女和代表性不足的少数群体更广泛地参与科技、经济、社会和文化创新和创业。通过增加未得到充分服务的群体在技术创新和创业中的代表性来扩大参与，对于保持全球竞争力和促进经济发展至关重要，特别是在历史上饱受地方性贫困和农村边缘化困扰的社区。本项目提出的技术职业道路具有巨大的潜力，可以促进未被充分代表的人群在STEM取得成功，在高等教育和研究商业化的交汇点创造一条新的职业管道。该项目还将使拟议的研究团队能够创建一个共同的愿景和必要的知识基础，以应对STEM不断扩大的参与挑战，特别是对美洲原住民和西班牙裔农村人。该计划将通过为现有的寻求扩大STEM学术计划和职业代表性的大量工作增加一个新的方面，促进对专注于技术创新和创业的STEM教育领域的知识和理解。该计划将重点发展在新墨西哥州服务不足的人群中运作的农村数字身份的概况。对土著基因相对于其他身份类别所起作用的调查已变得越来越迫切。在世界历史上这一非常复杂的时刻，身份的作用要求使用交叉性作为一种手段，促使人们更深入地了解人们属于社区的方式，并在这些社区中充当变革的推动者。这份简介将有助于为教育和经济发展项目提供急需的背景，这些项目旨在利用技术创新作为新的经济繁荣模式的机制，将服务不足的社区与全球市场联系起来。该项目由科学科学：发现、交流和影响以及既定的激励竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)共同资助。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。

The Central New Mexico region is home to large populations of Native Americans and Hispanics traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The state also contains an abundance of STEM-focused education and research, including a transition to clean energy that will provide new jobs and three national laboratories in the region. However, no alliance directly connects New Mexico STEM majors to innovation through training in technology transfer and entrepreneurship relevant to their heritage. The proposed activities offer great potential to positively impact societally relevant outcomes, including the broader participation of women and underrepresented minorities from Native American, Hispanic and low-income populations in STEM innovation and entrepreneurship. Broadening participation by increasing the representation of underserved groups in technology innovation and entrepreneurship is critical for maintaining global competitiveness and for promoting economic development, especially in communities historically plagued by endemic poverty and rural marginality.The conceived technology career pathway proposed in this project has significant potential to spawn an increase in the success of underrepresented populations in STEM, creating a new career pipeline at the intersection of higher education and research commercialization. This project will also enable the proposed research team to create a Shared Vision and the necessary knowledge-base to address the broadening participation challenges in STEM, especially for Native Americans and rural Hispanics.This program will advance knowledge and understanding in the field of STEM education that focuses on technology innovation and entrepreneurship by adding a novel aspect to the existing large body of work seeking to broaden representation in STEM academic programs and careers. This program will focus on the development of a profile of the rural digital identity that operates within New Mexico’s underserved populations. An investigation of the role that indigeneity plays in relation to other identity categories has become increasingly urgent. The role of identity at this very complex moment in world history requires the use of intersectionality as a means of provoking a deeper understanding of the way people belong to communities and serve as change-agents within those communities. This profile will be instrumental in providing much needed context for educational and economic development programs aimed at connecting underserved communities to global markets using technological innovation as the mechanism for new models of economic prosperity.This project is jointly funded by Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact, and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.