A proposal to Support the Talent Development and Innovation in Sciences (TDIS) Internship Program

少数民族优质教育网络（QEM）是一个非营利性组织，在促进代表性不足群体的教育方面发挥了重要作用，特别是在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域。该项目支持QEM人才发展和科学创新（TDIS）实习计划，提供一个以研究为重点的专业发展计划，将学生安置在国家科学基金会，作为一种机制，通过职业曝光和指导/指导代表性不足的STEM学位本科生和研究生，刺激和支持下一代STEM劳动力的发展。实习生代表不同的机构，参与了一系列的专业发展活动，这些活动对他们的专业有直接的好处，也对他们所在的机构和校园里的同龄人有间接的好处。实习计划提供个人和专业技能的发展，以促进实习生成功追求stem为重点的高级学位和职业。这项人力能力建设工作将有助于培养一支多元化、敬业、具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力队伍，为通过发现和创新迎接未来的挑战做好准备。TDIS实习机会利用并扩展了实习生之前在学校的学习，并从NSF培训和指导以及QEM专业发展参与中获得了新的经验。实习生进一步发展他们的研究技能；加强他们对影响STEM教育质量的项目、政策和问题的认识和知识，特别是在低收入社区；提高他们对以stem为重点的一般政策、立法和项目的认识。实习生有机会参与研究和数据分析；扩展他们的研究生院知识和STEM职业准备；并获得有效的网络以及沟通（写作，公开演讲和计算机）技能。该项目以30多年的成功经验为基础，采用各种策略使项目具有价值，包括使用技术和利用与关键利益相关者的关系，使暑期体验与21世纪学生的专业成长更加相关。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。

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a non-profit organization, has been instrumental in serving as a catalyst to improve the education of under-represented groups, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This project supports the QEM Talent Development and Innovation in Sciences (TDIS) Internship Program in providing a research-focused professional development initiative that places students at the National Science Foundation as a mechanism to stimulate and support the development of the next-generation STEM workforce through career exposure and mentoring/guidance for underrepresented STEM degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students. Interns, representing diverse institutions, are exposed to a range of professional development activities that have direct benefits to them professionally, as well as indirect benefits to their home institutions and campus-based peers. The internship program provides personal and professional skills development to facilitate the interns’ successful pursuit of STEM-focused advanced degrees and careers. This human capacity building endeavor will help train a diverse, engaged, and globally competitive STEM workforce prepared to meet future challenges through discovery and innovation.The TDIS internship opportunity leverages and expands the interns' prior learning from school with new experiences from NSF training and mentoring, as well as QEM professional development engagements. Interns further develop their research skills; strengthen their awareness and knowledge of programs, policies, and issues that affect the quality of STEM education, particularly in low-income communities; and sharpen their awareness of general STEM-focused policies, legislation, and programs. Interns benefit from opportunities to engage in research and data analysis; expand their knowledge of graduate school and STEM career preparation; and gain effective networking as well as communications (writing, public speaking, and computer) skills. The program builds on over 30 years of success employing strategies that make the program valuable including the use of technology and leveraging relationships with key stakeholders that make the summer experience more relevant to 21st Century students' professional growth.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.