The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has partnered with with Southeast Community College and Western Nebraska Community College to build out the state’s STEM workforce through a new grant, STEM Career Opportunities in Nebraska: Networks, Experiential-learning and Computation Thinking.
The STEM CONNECT initiative will provide scholarships and academic support for low-income students, specifically targeting underrepresented minorities, women, and rural and first-generation students. Students who begin at a community college in the academic-transfer program will take courses to build their strengths in math and computer science, while the students who begin at Nebraska will major in math, computer science, computer engineering or software engineering.
The first 10 scholarship recipients were selected this spring. Of those 10, five will pursue educations in computing. The recipients are:
• Philip Chohon
• Emmanuel Lopez Mateo
• Caleb Marcoux
• Michael Sanders
• Abby Seibel
Learn more about each of the scholars on our website.