Editor’s note: This article is an excerpt from ATE@20, a blog profiling stories related to the Advanced Technological Education program at the National Science Foundation.
The 81 college teams in the first four Mentor-Connect cohorts have increased the geographic diversity of colleges submitting proposals to the National Science Foundation’s ATE program.
The selected colleges are in regions in 27 different states where an ATE grant has either never been funded or has not been funded in the past 10 years. Since NSF started the ATE program in 1993, its competitive review process has awarded ATE grants in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. However, many of these grants have gone to colleges in metropolitan areas, and often these institutions have received multiple ATE grants.
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Mentor-Connect’s utilization of Advanced Technological Education (ATE) principal investigators as mentors and an array of technical resources
has achieved some initial, promising results.
The 81 college teams in the first four Mentor-Connect cohorts increased the geographic diversity of colleges submitting proposals to the National Science Foundation’s ATE program: the selected colleges are in regions within 27 different states where an ATE grant has either never been funded, or has not been funded in the past 10 years. Since NSF started the ATE program in 1993 its competitive review process has awarded ATE grants in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. However, many of these grants have gone to colleges in metropolitan areas, and often these institutions have received multiple ATE grants.
Evidence that Mentor-Connect is adding geographic diversity to NSF-ATE proposals comes from the fact that 55 of the 61 colleges in the first three Mentor-Connect cohorts submitted proposals to NSF.
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