{"id":287,"date":"2019-10-24T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:37:21","slug":"about-datastem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/about-datastem\/","title":{"rendered":"About dataSTEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder -->\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__imagetext panel panel-imagetext site-section__bg--default\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"imagetext\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner site-section__inner--no-padding\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__no-gutters  site-panel__imgtxt-img-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<figure  class=\"c-image c-image--rect\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"DataScience\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/files\/2019\/02\/DataScience.png\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1260px) 1260px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/files\/2019\/02\/DataScience-430x300.png 430w\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col site-grid__col-safari-fix\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__imgtxt-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"c-text\">\n\n\t<h2 class=\"site-section__title h3\" id=\"what-is-datastem\" data-name=\"title\" data-livetext data-depth=\"0\" data-index=\"0\">What is dataSTEM?<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"c-text__desc t-content\" data-depth=\"0\" data-name=\"content\" data-autop=\"true\" data-livetext>\n\t\t\t<p>S-STEM: Preparing students for our data-intensive world (#1742149) provides scholarships and critical support to low-income students who want to augment their STEM majors with advanced capacities in data science and statistics. 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A new course bridging the gap between the traditional, social sciences-based first course in statistics and a first course in statistical modeling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supplemental Instruction<\/strong> and extensive tutoring.<\/li>\n<li>Coordination with St. Olaf\u2019s highly regarded <strong>TRIO\/SSS<\/strong> and <strong>McNair Scholars<\/strong> programs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Undergraduate research<\/strong> opportunities in both the summer and through the St. Olaf\u00a0Center for Interdisciplinary Research (NSF #1045015), which undertakes quantitative analyses guided by faculty from disciplines outside of the mathematical sciences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size:1em;\">An advisory board consisting of individuals from area industries will help identify internship opportunities for dataSTEM participants and will support entry into data-intensive careers after graduation.\u00a0The project will also assess the effectiveness of instruction and academic support strategies that increase persistence in data-intensive STEM fields.\u00a0 Its findings will contribute to the national conversation about how best to challenge and support students from underserved backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3439,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/sstem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}