Highlights from Prior Workshops

The following are unsolicited comments from prior workshop participants.

“Our S-STEM was funded! We got the good word last week…  Thank you all for your contributions to this. If not for your workshop in January, I am not sure I would have gotten this started in time. And it definitely would not have had a strong cultural wealth perspective.”   PI Participant, 2-Year College

“We just found out that our S-STEM grant was awarded 🙂 Thanks so much for your help. I don’t think we would have been competitive had we not participated in the workshop… And thanks so much… for hosting and leading the workshop. It was not only inspiring but also incredibly helpful and productive – from the big picture down to the nitty gritty details. It really laid the groundwork for our proposal.” PI Participant, Hispanic Serving Institution, EPSCoR State

“I want to thank you all again for an extremely helpful workshop. I’m feeling much more confident in tackling revision of our proposal.”

“Thanks for the excellent workshop! It was two days of excellent content, excellent coaching and rewarding activities.”

“We heard from NSF this morning that our S-STEM project will be funded!  Thank you once again for organizing and hosting the S-STEM workshop back in February (and for inviting me and …).  Thank you also for providing additional feedback on our project summary shortly before the deadline.  While it is impossible to know if our proposal would have been successful without coming to the workshop, we know that our proposal was much stronger as a result of our participation.  We are very excited about the project and looking forward to beginning work on it.” PI Participant, Predominantly Undergraduate Institution, EPSCoR State

“Thank you so much for the excellent workshop you led for S-STEM proposal preparation. I don’t think our team would have had a fighting chance of success had we not attended. The workshop was incredibly rich on many levels. I learned so much – about the S-STEM proposal and requirements, about NSF proposals in general, and also how to lead a workshop, class, etc. It was amazing how you made it both very rigorous and effective (we produced all of the fundamental pieces of our grant proposal at your workshop) and very enjoyable at the same time. Of course, we don’t know if we have been funded yet. But either way, I learned so much. Thank you so much again!”

“Again I want to thank you for the best constructed workshop that I have ever had the privilege to attend. I was very impressed that you left time for genuine WORK in this workshop. I feel that the participants, myself included, made substantive progress on our proposals. We were able to make immediate use of the information that we had just received – a brilliant idea!” Researcher Participant



Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program under award number 1708329.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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