GP-IN: Graduate soft skills development through mentoring pre-university students through diverse geoscience experiences

GP-IN：通过多样化的地球科学经验指导大学预科生，培养研究生软技能

• 批准号: 2023263
• 负责人: Suzan van der Lee
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2023263&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; Graduate; soft; skills; development

The Geosciences are particularly suited for nurturing and diversifying a STEM workforce and promoting STEM literacy on account of the diverse applications to real-world problems related to humanity’s only home: the Earth. This interdisciplinary field prepares geoscience students for successful STEM careers within and beyond geoscience. Yet, the geosciences are faced with a talent gap and suffer from a serious underrepresentation of minoritized groups. Recruiting more and more diverse students into undergraduate geoscience programs of study is a necessity for future prosperity. By exposing rising high school seniors to the importance of a particular science before they enter college could have long-term benefits in favor of STEM career choices. Recruiting and training diverse students into the field will help to ensure that sustainable and inclusive future geoscience workers will be representative of America’s multicultural society.PIs propose a two-pronged approach that targets students at distinct critical junctures in the geoscience talent pipeline: 1) high-school students deciding on colleges and majors, and 2) graduate students working towards academic and non-academic careers in geoscience. The two main goals of this program are 1) to increase the number and diversity of college-bound high-school students who intentionally choose geoscience as a major, and 2) to solidify graduate students’ attitudes, skills, and identities as geoscience leaders and lifelong mentors. High-school students are preferentially recruited from three partner high schools with large populations of students from traditionally minoritized groups. Each high-school summer intern completes an individual project under supervision and mentorship from a graduate student in conjunction with organized and cohort-based exposure to and mini-training in computing and data science, field work and instrumentation, and communication. The graduate student mentors are formally trained and advised in the practice of mentoring via a series of workshops and individual feedback sessions. They also help design and deliver authentic exposure to and mini-training in geoscience to the interns. The interns’ projects are guided by project proposals written by the graduate students and revised with coaching from the PI.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.

地球科学特别适合培养和多元化的STEM劳动力，并促进STEM识字，因为它对与人类唯一的家相关的现实世界问题的转移应用：地球。这个跨学科的领域为地球科学的学生做好了为在地球科学内外成功的STEM职业做准备的。然而，地球科学面临着人才差距，并且遭受了少数化群体的严重代表性不足。将越来越多的学生招募到本科地球科学课程中是未来繁荣的必要条件。通过使高中生在进入大学之前的特定科学的重要性中，可以有长期的利益，以支持STEM职业的选择。招募和培训潜水员进入该领域将有助于确保可持续和包容的未来地球科学工作者将代表美国的多文化社会。PIS提出了一种两种方便的方法，该方法针对地球科学人才的独特关键时期的学生针对学生：1）高中生的学生在学业和非学术医疗学院工作，并在学术上工作，并在学术上工作。该计划的两个主要目标是1）增加故意选择地球科学的大学有限的高中生的数量和多样性，以及2）巩固研究生的与会者的参与者，技能和身份，成为地球科学领导者和终身导师。最好是从三所伴侣高中招募高中生，这些高中有大量来自传统少数小组的学生。每个高中暑期实习生都在研究生的监督和指导下完成一个单独的项目，并结合了有组织的和队列的接触计算机和数据科学，现场工作和仪器以及沟通中的小组和小型培训。研究生导师通过一系列研讨会和个人反馈会议对实践进行了正式培训和建议。它们还有助于设计和提供对地球科学中的地形训练和微型训练的真实接触。实习生的项目是由研究生编写的项目提案指导的，并通过PI的教练进行了修订。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，我们是否通过评估来诚实地认为我们的支持。