Building a Montana Computing Consortium

建立蒙大拿州计算联盟

• 批准号: 2221684
• 负责人: Brittany Fasy
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Montana; Computing; Consortium

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at institutions of higher education across Montana. Over its one-year duration, this project will: build collaboration and infrastructure among college and university computing faculty and other stakeholders in Montana; identify the needs and gather data on the underrepresentation of computer science identity, especially for women and American Indian students; and support funding 20 students from across Montana for two Visit Days, where they will learn about graduate degrees in computing in Montana. The data gathered will be useful for setting up standards for scholarships in a later stage. Intellectually, the research results identify reasons preventing low-income, women, and American Indian students from pursuing computing degrees and careers. Broadly, this project will initiate a systematic process to increase computing populations in Montana.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need. As a planning project for a larger S-STEM Track 3 future project (whose goal is to increase computer science students at all levels in Montana), the goals of this project are to advance understanding of the reasons preventing Montanan students, especially minorities, from choosing computing as careers, and certainly, and to involve student participation to help build their career. New measures, like persistence intentions (i.e., how likely a student is to continue his/her career in computing) will be used to collect data which will help setting up standards on scholarships for the corresponding students in a later stage. The project will also strengthen collaboration for computing personnel in Montana and will attract student participation by supporting 20 out-of-town undergraduate students pursuing graduate degrees on two Visit Days. In addition to all of these, one of the outcomes of this project is a larger Track-3 proposal.This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

该项目将通过支持蒙大拿州高等教育机构保留和毕业有经济需求的成绩优异的低收入学生，满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。该项目为期一年，将：在蒙大拿州的学院和大学计算机教师和其他利益相关者之间建立合作和基础设施；确定计算机科学身份代表性不足的需求并收集数据，特别是针对女性和美国印第安人学生，并提供资助20；来自蒙大拿州各地的学生为期两天的访问日，他们将了解蒙大拿州的计算机研究生学位。收集的数据将有助于在后期制定奖学金标准，研究结果确定了阻碍低收入、女性和美国人的原因。总体而言，该项目将启动一个系统化流程，以增加蒙大拿州的计算机人口。该项目的总体目标是提高有经济需求的低收入、成绩优异的学生完成 STEM 学位。作为一个更大的规划项目S-STEM Track 3 未来项目（其目标是增加蒙大拿州各级计算机科学专业的学生），该项目的目标是加深对阻止蒙大拿州学生（尤其是少数族裔）选择计算机作为职业的原因的理解，当然， ，并让学生参与以帮助建立他们的职业生涯，例如持久性意图（即学生继续其计算机职业生涯的可能性）将用于收集数据，这将有助于制定奖学金标准。项目后期的相应学生。还将加强蒙大拿州计算机人员的合作，并通过支持 20 名外地本科生在两个访问日攻读研究生学位来吸引学生参与。除了所有这些之外，该项目的成果之一是建立了一个更大的赛道。 -3 提案。该项目由 NSF 的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加具有经济需求的低收入学术天才学生获得 STEM 领域学位的数量。改善未来的教育STEM 工作者，并产生有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持影响审查标准。