BEING HUMAN IN STEM
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        • Louise Atadja
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        • Doyin Ariyibi
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Fall 2016 Course

3 alumni from the pilot Spring 2016 course continued this semester, with Megan Lyster, assistant director for Center for Community Engagement at Amherst College, co-teaching the course. The major project we focused on this semester was creating different easy-to-implement workshop guides for professors to facilitate and assess the following questions:
  1. What is diversity?
  2. Why is diversity important in STEM?
  3. What are the main challenges facing underrepresented students in STEM?
  4. What's happening at your institution?
  5. What are effective approaches of supporting students from all backgrounds?
This semester, we created workshop to address question #3, and piloted it in CHEM161, Chemical Principles, one of the gateway chemistry courses at Amherst College. The workshop guide can be found under the Resources tab.

Click on the tabs below to explore the methods, findings, and feedback from the pilot workshop.
Note: this part is still under construction. However, our overall methods and key findings are outlined in the poster here.
  • Methods
  • Key Findings
  • ​Feedback
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Pre-Class Activity

The goal of this pre-class activity was to identify the images of a STEM student at Amherst. Adopting from the Draw-a-Scientist test (Chambers 1983), we asked students to draw or describe a typical STEM student at Amherst. 
Pre-Class Activity Results: only 3 respondents, but common themes were:
  1. Academic required of STEM students
  2. Observations focused more on work habits/strategies
  3. One respondent noted that STEM students do tend to group into categories based on major or intended career path
  4. No mention of how ethnicity or other demographics are represented

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  • About the Initiative
    • Inspiration & Mission
    • Timeline
    • Documentary
  • Amherst HSTEM Course
    • About
    • Spring 2018 Course >
      • Expanding HSTEM Initiatives: Developing a Condensed Model for HSTEM Course
      • Developing Workshops to Foster Conversations about & Assess the State of Inclusion in STEM at Amherst College and Beyond
      • Supporting Engagement of Elementary School-Aged Children in STEM
      • About Us
    • Fall 2017 Course >
      • Expanding/Deepening HSTEM Interventions at Amherst College
      • Documenting/Archiving HSTEM Story and Artifacts
      • Engaging Stakeholders Beyond Amherst College
      • Supporting Engagement of Elementary School Aged Children in STEM
      • About Us
    • Spring 2017 Course
    • Fall 2016 Course
    • Spring 2016 Course >
      • The Interview Project
      • The Amherst Context
      • Sample Workshop Ideas
      • About Us: the Pioneers >
        • Ashley Bohan
        • Emma Ryan
        • Ruth Manzanares
        • Sheila Jaswal
        • Chelsea Nkansah-Siriboe
        • Sanyu Takirambudde
        • Louise Atadja
        • Gaby Mayer
        • Olivia Truax
        • Doyin Ariyibi
  • Resources
    • Readings >
      • Effective Practices >
        • Background Reading on Inclusive STEM practices
      • Background Readings on Diversity in STEM
    • Inclusive Curricular Resources
    • STEM programs at peer Institutions
    • Workshop Materials
    • Start Your Own HSTEM Course
  • Beyond Amherst
    • Other HSTEM Courses >
      • About
    • News
  • Contact