METT Scholars - empowering minority STEM college majors

Growing our engineering, science and cyber workforce

America and our Allies face a strategic shortfall of native science, technology, engineering, and math professionals. This has roots in a variety of historic reasons, but has led our free states to risk of being outcompeted by near-peers.

Data from the recent US Census and CompTIA’s workforce analysis reveals that the workforce strongly underrepresents women, minorities, and poor communities.

METT Scholars seeks to grow our national base of STEM professionals by empowering historically under-represented minorities to pursue STEM degrees.

We provide resources - high end computers, STEM software, industry certifications, and MiFi hotspots - to disadvantaged students with the talent but not the money to pursue a STEM career. Our goal is to maximize representation in STEM fields.

Powerful laptops are necessary for success in STEM education. This is a major barrier to entry.

Powerful Computers for STEM Majors

We founded METT Scholars when we discovered many historically underserved students, especially at Minority Serving Institutes, leave STEM majors - or never matriculate - from lack of computational power.

METT Scholars has a relationship with major vendors to provide deep discounts on computers with processors, memory, and graphics capable of processing STEM modeling and simulations software.

College STEM programs usually require specialized modeling, simulation, mathematical, or programming software. These are expensive and require subscriptions. This serves as a major barrier to entry.

Top Modeling and Simulation Software

College is expensive - especially so for STEM majors. Our disadvantaged beneficiaries may not be able to afford the specialized mathematical, design, programming, or graphics software their program demands.

We customize our powerful computers with the modeling and simulation software required by the student’s STEM program - some examples may include: Matlab, Mathematica, COMSOL Multiphysics, SolidWorks, and much more.

Woman, Minority, and other historically underrepresented students may feel alone and facing steep barriers. Mentors who 'look like' the student can help the student overcome concerns and grow professionally.

Help Selecting a Certification Path

Many underrepresented STEM college majors have never met a successful professional in their field that looks like them. These students may feel lost or that they face an insurmountable barrier because they have no one to ask for advice on how to get into and advance in their careers.

We have a broad network of diverse and successful women, veteran, and minority STEM leaders who can work with the students to determine which industry certification path to pursue. Our generous donors provide the funding for us to acquire and provide certification books, bootcamps, and exam vouchers.

We are constantly growing our network. If you are such a leader willing to help us help underserved students grow in their careers, please contact us via the form on the bottom of this page.

“Students [are] struggling to do their academic work with inadequate equipment or unstable WiFi connections.

Some of our students have mobile phone or chromes that are not suitable for most of their engineering or computer science classes. A few other students have indicated that they had to share the home computer with their parents and their siblings.

So, the support you provided is godsend for many who have been struggling.”

— Dawit Haile, PhD - Dean of Engineering, Virginia State University

Contact

Feel free to contact us with any questions about donating or mentorship.

Email
METT.Scholars@gmail.com