RCN-UBE Incubator: The STEM Career Exploration Laboratory Network

RCN-UBE 孵化器：STEM 职业探索实验室网络

• 批准号: 2120588
• 负责人: Anjana Saxena
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: CUNY Brooklyn College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-15 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2120588&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Incubator; STEM; Career; RCN; UBE; Incubator; STEM; Career

Students in STEM majors nationwide frequently fail to translate course learning experiences into career aspirations. Course content often lacks connections to societal issues or fail to address public problems using skills students developed in their majors. The STEM Career Exploration Laboratory Network (STEMCEL) is designed to develop and implement a “course to community and career skillset” approach to enhance students’ civic engagement and encourage them to explore a variety of STEM careers that can bring socioeconomic advancement.The Network will build a bridge between community problems and educational institutions by having students apply their classroom curricula to develop solutions to societal and social justice needs. An example is development of rapid environmental testing tools that contribute to identifying and monitoring contaminated local sites. The overarching goals of the STEMCEL incubator are to: connect biology students to civic-engagement by identifying communal needs, develop a multimodal approach to the problem through hands-on research exploration in early laboratory courses that will train students in state-of-the art techniques, participate in building a network with peers and experts in the fields of STEM careers, and advance scientific critical thinking to provide practical solutions to real-life problems with deliverables. This work will establish and improve connections that will result in positive environmental impact in local regions, by developing a rapid contaminant detection test. STEMCEL partners from 2-year community colleges, 4-year colleges, research institutes, industrial liaisons as well as New York city civil offices, will work together to enrich the students’ research and networking experiences in the curricula and in real-life implementation processes. The STEMCEL network will bring career exploration into early undergraduate curricula to expand students’ view of other rewarding and important career paths outside of the healthcare-related fields that they are familiar with when they enter college. The project will be scalable nationwide, as environmental contaminants are a major issue for the whole country. The STEMCEL philosophy is to create courses incorporating authentic research that contribute to large data sets nationwide while educating our students to the variety of STEM careers available. This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).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.

全国STEM专业的学生经常无法将课程学习经验转化为职业志向。课程内容通常缺乏与社会问题的联系，或者使用学生在专业中发展的技能无法解决公共问题。 STEM职业探索实验室网络（STEMCEL）旨在开发和实施“对社区和职业技能的课程”方法，以增强学生的公民参与度，并鼓励他们探索各种STEM职业，这些职业可以带来社会经济的进步。该网络将通过使学生将他们的课堂课程的解决方案应用于社会和社会的社会和社会肯定，从而在社区问题和教育机构之间建立桥梁。一个例子是开发快速的环境测试工具，这些工具有助于识别和监视受污染的本地站点。 The overarching goals of the STEMCEL incubator are to: connect biology Students to civic-engagement by identifying communal needs, develop a multimodal approach to the problem through hands-on research exploration in early laboratory courses that will tr​​ain students in state-of-the art techniques, participate in building a network with peers and experts in the fields of STEM careers, and advance scientific critical thinking to provide practical solutions to real-life problems with deliverables.这项工作将通过开发快速污染检测测试来建立和改善联系，从而在地方地区产生积极的环境影响。来自2年社区学院，四年制学院，研究机构，工业联络以及纽约市民事办公室的STEMCEL合作伙伴将共同努力，以丰富学生在课程和现实生活实施过程中的研究和网络经验。 STEMCEL网络将使职业探索成为早期的本科课程，以扩大学生对与医疗保健相关的领域之外的其他有意义和重要的职业道路的看法。该项目将在全国范围内可扩展，因为环境污染物是整个国家的主要问题。 STEMCEL哲学是创建编码真实研究的课程，该课程在全国范围内为大型数据集做出了贡献，同时向我们的学生教育各种各样的STEM职业。 This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准进行评估。