EAGER: Student-Driven Internship Opportunities in the Atmospheric Sciences: Breaking Barriers to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Access

该补助金解决了增加代表性和保留少数种族和族裔在大气科学的水平的需要，重点是在西班牙裔服务机构代表性不足的少数民族学生。它采用了一种新颖的方法来增加大气科学和气象学课程的吸引力，学生的保留，以及毕业后成功的可能性，通过实施由学生需求和输入驱动的实习计划。对学生的兴趣，目标和愿望的调查将指导为参与者量身定制的新实习空间的创建。实习的全面实施将使人们更好地了解该模式的各个方面，并使这一新制度得以微调。根据学生的需求，这样一个系统有可能补充，也许取代一些现有的提供丰富和激励实习机会的方式。预计实习本身将成为一个重要的招聘工具，以吸引和留住更多代表性不足的少数群体进入地球科学领域。从参与和结果统计中收集的数据，加上离职面谈，将指导今后在大气科学的初始范围内外实施这一模式。这些数据以及与各参与者群体的后续联系可能会揭示重要的经验教训，有助于更好地了解不成比例地影响地球科学中代表性不足的群体的障碍和系统性障碍的性质。所吸取的经验教训可用于在学术领域和学生群体中更广泛地应用该模型。该补助金支持一种新的方法来增加大气科学和气象学课程的吸引力，学生的保留以及毕业后成功的可能性，通过实施由学生需求和输入驱动的实习计划。对学生的兴趣，目标和愿望的调查将指导为参与者量身定制的新实习空间的创建。实习的全面实施将使人们更好地了解该模式的各个方面，并使这一新制度得以微调。根据学生的需求，这样一个系统有可能补充，也许取代一些现有的提供丰富和激励实习机会的方式。预计实习本身将成为一个重要的招聘工具，以吸引和留住更多代表性不足的少数群体进入地球科学领域，学生驱动的模式通过调查和鼓励学生考虑实习的可能性并表达他们在该领域的个人兴趣和愿望开始这一过程。有了这些知识，项目管理员将接近广泛的未来合作伙伴在天气，水和气候企业和研究综合体，鼓励他们开放的空间，这些学生可以提供所需的服务，同时获得宝贵的经验，建立网络连接，并增加他们的自信心和归属感。在此期间，寄宿伙伴有更多的好处，了解和评估这些学生未来的就业机会。在暑期实习期结束时，学生将被要求准备一份介绍他们的实习项目。我们也鼓励学生将他们的暑期工作发展成一个海报展示，可以在接下来的美国气象学会年会或其他相关会议上展示。这个奖项反映了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标准进行评估，被认为是值得支持的。

This grant addresses the need for increasing the levels of representation and retention of racial and ethnic minorities in the Atmospheric Sciences, focusing on underrepresented minority students at Hispanic Serving Institutions. It employs a novel approach to increasing the appeal of Atmospheric Science and Meteorology programs, the retention of students, and the probability of success after graduation, through the implementation of an internship program driven by student needs and input. A survey of the students’ interests, goals, and aspirations will guide the creation of new internship spaces tailored to the participants. The full implementation of the internships will result in a much better understanding of every aspect of the model and allow for the fine tuning of this new system. Informed by student needs, such a system has the potential to complement and perhaps replace some of the existing ways of providing enriching and motivating internship opportunities. It is expected that the internships themselves will constitute an important recruitment tool to attract and retain larger numbers of underrepresented minorities into the Geosciences. The data collected from participation and outcome statistics, combined with exit interviews would guide future implementations of this model in and outside the initial scope of the Atmospheric Sciences. This data together with follow-up contacts with the various participant cohorts may reveal important lessons that could help better understand the nature of the barriers and systemic obstacles that disproportionately affect underrepresented groups in the Geosciences. Lessons learned can be used to apply the model more widely across academic fields and student populations. This grant supports a novel approach to increasing the appeal of Atmospheric Science and Meteorology programs, the retention of students, and the probability of success after graduation, through the implementation of an internship program driven by student needs and input. A survey of the students’ interests, goals, and aspirations will guide the creation of new internship spaces tailored to the participants. The full implementation of the internships will result in a much better understanding of every aspect of the model and allow for the fine tuning of this new system. Informed by student needs, such a system has the potential to complement and perhaps replace some of the existing ways of providing enriching and motivating internship opportunities. It is expected that the internships themselves will constitute an important recruitment tool to attract and retain larger numbers of underrepresented minorities into the Geosciences.The student-driven model begins the process by surveying and encouraging students to think about the possibility of going on an internship and expressing their personal interests and aspirations in the field. With this knowledge, the project administrators will approach a wide range of prospective partners in the weather, water, and climate enterprise and research complex, to encourage them to open spaces where these students can provide a needed service while acquiring precious experience, make networking connections, and increase their self-confidence and sense of belonging. During this time, the host partner has the added benefit of getting to know and evaluate these students for future employment opportunities. At the end of the summer internship period students will be expected to prepare a presentation describing their internship project. Students will also be encouraged to develop their summer work into a poster presentation that could be presented at the following Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society or other relevant conference.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.