IGERT trainees help middle school students with disabilities advance to regional competition

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:00:00 -0500

This activity promotes cultivating a world-class, broadly inclusive science and engineering workforce. Our team is the only group in the region that specifically focuses on recruiting students with disabilities. We are inclusive of all students, however, to demonstrate to those with and without disabilities that students of all abilities can be successful in STEM. This program fosters research that will advance the frontiers of knowledge, specifically in terms of understanding the barriers and facilitators to STEM learning for students with disabilities, across critical transition junctures, in particular, from the middle to high school levels. This program also advances understanding of the role that mentors play in developing STEM skills and self-efficacy.