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

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抱负，课程内容往往缺乏与社会问题的联系，或者无法利用学生在其专业中培养的技能来解决公共问题。制定并实施“社区和职业技能课程”方法，以提高学生的公民参与度，并鼓励他们探索各种可以带来经济进步的 STEM 职业。该网络将通过让学生在社区问题和教育机构之间架起一座桥梁应用他们的课堂STEMCEL 孵化器的总体目标是：通过识别社区，将生物学学生与公民参与联系起来。通过在早期实验室课程中进行实践研究探索，开发解决问题的多模式方法，这些课程将培训学生最先进的技术，参与与 STEM 职业领域的同行和专家建立网络，并推进科学批判性思维这项工作将通过来自 2 年制社区大学、4 年制大学的快速污染物检测测试，建立和改善对当地环境产生积极影响的联系。 、研究机构、行业联络机构以及纽约市民事办公室将共同努力，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 网络将为早期本科生带来职业探索。该项目将在全国范围内推广，因为环境污染物是整个国家的一个主要问题。我们的理念是创建包含真实研究的课程，为全国范围内的大数据集做出贡献，同时教育我们的学生了解各种可用的 STEM 职业。该项目由生物科学理事会、生物基础设施司和教育理事会共同资助。和人力资源部，本科教育部，作为他们努力解决本科生物教育愿景和变革：行动呼吁 (http://visionandchange/finalreport/) 中提出的挑战的一部分。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。