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NSF INCLUDES-DDLP: Sustaining Workforce Diversity in Emerging STEM Economies

September 15, 2017 - August 31, 2019 | Informal/Formal Connections
This project, an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot, managed by the University of Nevada, Reno, addresses the grand challenge of increasing underrepresentation regionally in the advanced manufacturing sector. Using the state's Learn and Earn Program Advanced Career Pathway (LEAP) as the foundation, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities will support and prepare Hispanic students for the region's workforce in advanced manufacturing which includes partnerships with Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC), the state's Governor's Office of Economic Development, Charles River Laboratories, Nevada Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Nevada EPSCoR) and the K-12 community. The expected outcomes from the project will inform the feasibility, expandability and transferability of the LEAP framework in diversifying the state's workforce locally and the STEM workforce nationally. Formative and summative evaluation will be conducted with a well-matched comparison group. Dissemination of project results will be disseminated through the Association for Public Land-Grant Universities (APLU), STEM conferences and scholarly journals.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: NSF INCLUDES
Award Number: 1744543
Funding Amount: $298,946.00

TEAM MEMBERS

  • David Shintani
    Principal Investigator
    University of Nevada, Reno
  • Julie Ellsworth
    Co-Principal Investigator
  • Karsten Heise
    Co-Principal Investigator
  • Robert Stachlewitz
    Co-Principal Investigator
  • Regina Tempel
    Co-Principal Investigator
  • Discipline: Computing and information science | Education and learning science | General STEM | Technology
    Audience: Elementary School Children (6-10) | Middle School Children (11-13) | Youth/Teen (up to 17) | Undergraduate/Graduate Students | Administration/Leadership/Policymakers | Educators/Teachers | Scientists | Evaluators | Learning Researchers
    Environment Type: K-12 Programs | Higher Education Programs
    Access and Inclusion: Hispanic/Latinx Communities

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