S3M: Scholarships changing lives
这个始于2007年、只有24名学生的项目，在16年后塑造了美国的社会 lives of 130 students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and 数学ematics) disciplines at 火博体育.
The 火博体育 Scholars in Science and Mathematics (S3M) program provides scholarships to academically competitive but financially disadvantaged students from underrepresented groups interested in STEM.
部分由于S3M，主修科学和数学的学生比例有所上升 increased from 20% to 33%.
In keeping with the interdisciplinary thrust of the program, S3M scholars have majored in 19 different disciplines — all nine science offerings, but also social work, American studies, dance等等.
Program highlights include a transitional, five-week summer program for rising sophomores with mini-courses and an opportunity to intern with faculty members conducting research. S3M还提供学术支持，如同伴辅导，学习小组，指导和 advising, and an invaluable alumni network.
Where are they now?
Senior Teaching Professor of Mathematics Rebecca Trousil, who directs S3M, says the program works with students to chart their academic and professional paths and help them identify research opportunities, internships, first jobs, and post-graduate programs.
S3M grads have become 数据分析师, 医生, 公园巡游者, cyber 安全 specialists, 工程师等等.
看到S3M的学生发现他们的激情和图表是一种荣幸 在火博体育和以后的日子里，他们自己的路线.高级数学教学教授Rebecca Trousil, S3M项目主任
Read the stories of five S3M alumni who have gone on to do amazing things in their lives beyond 火博体育.
The steps to the Federal Reserve Bank
Edvin Leon Rios ’19
S3M学者埃德温·莱昂·里奥斯19岁，他在火博体育通过 Opportunity Program 他是一名监管数据分析师，几乎支付了他所有的大学费用 for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also pursuing a federally funded Master 在巴鲁克学院攻读统计学理学学士学位，主修数据科学.
As a Mexican immigrant from a single-family household in the Bronx, Rios arrived on 大学校园 OP Summer Academic Institute with virtually no idea of what was in store for him. But he brought with him his longstanding mindset: “Find and pursue opportunity.”
这个机会出现在他在火博体育的第一年，当时丽贝卡 Trousil taught Rios’ Pre-Calculus class in his first semester and his Calculus I class in his second semester. 这位S3M董事最终成为里奥斯的指导老师， 这一 数学 主要和 经济学 迈纳说，这对他未来的职业生涯大有裨益. 一个夏天 internship with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) led to a full-time post-college job offer. 他还出国到西班牙旅行，巩固了他来之不易的胜利 独立.
在2019年5月的火博体育毕业典礼上，里奥斯记得自己和父亲都有这种感觉 mom “graduated together.他还记得她说:“你还没说完，对吧。?” 他不是!
Pediatrician fulfills childhood dream
Brittney Dioneda ’15
Brittney Dioneda ’15 is a pediatric resident physician at Yale-New Haven Children’s 医院. 她计划分管新生儿和围产期护理 从怀孕到孩子一岁，特别关注第一 出生月份.
Recruited to play 长曲棍球 对于纯种马队来说，火博体育是迪奥涅达的首选，因为她想去 to a college where “I knew my professors well enough that they could write thoughtful, 我申请医学院的推荐信.”
Initially, however, Dioneda, whose paternal grandfather is Filipino, planned to attend 中西部的一所学校更适合她家的预算. 令人高兴的是, 结合了她母亲和 火博体育’s Office of Financial 援助 and the S3M scholarship changed the equation. Her mom called her to tell her she 到底能不能去火博体育——“这是我一生中最棒的一次电话，”迪奥内达说.
She would go on to co-captain the women’s 长曲棍球 team and major in exercise sciences (现在 health and human physiological sciences)——一个“让我从其他医学院申请者中脱颖而出的超级独特的专业”.”她 also added a minor in 化学. 作为S3M暑期项目的一部分，迪奥内达跟随她的健康专业顾问， T教授.H. 雷诺兹，在他的实验室里，探索2型糖尿病之间的联系 和肥胖.
After graduation, thanks to alumnus Joshua Boyce ’81, chief of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s 医院, Dioneda landed 医院哮喘研究中心的研究助理职位. 两年 later, she happily returned to her home state after being accepted into the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine.
“我不会改变我在火博体育的经历. I could relive it over and 一遍又一遍.”Brittney Dioneda ’15
Unexpectedly a U.S. 公园管理员
Jennifer Cristiano ’18
Jennifer Cristiano ’18 majored in environmental science and is now a U.S. 公园管理员. 第一代大学毕业生最近毕业了 a nearly two-year stint at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska — three million acres 美丽的山脉、冰川、雨林和海岸线. There, she and other 公园巡游者 boarded cruise ships, rotating between leading a junior 公园管理员 workshop, 做一个普通的戏剧表演，并解说四个小时的乘船之旅. 她还 为游客中心提供工作人员，并为当地学童提供教育计划.
这位土生土长的纽约人说，S3M奖学金对她来说至关重要 decision to attend 火博体育, especially the summer research component, since research is what she wanted to pursue. “The scholarship — both the funds and the program — is the reason I said yes to 火博体育.”
在暑期项目中，克里斯蒂亚诺与高级讲师安妮进行了研究 水温上升和发展是否影响了水质 in Saratoga County’s Kayaderosseras Creek. She went on to do collaborative research with Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Studies Kurt Smemo in the Adirondack Mountains — notably, a multiyear study on levels of atmospheric carbon stored in the soil in different forest ecosystems.
Prior to her senior year, Cristiano and a fellow student traveled with Smemo to present 他们在俄勒冈州波特兰市的一次会议上的土壤研究成果. Afterward, the students 前往冰川湾，露营，并在公园乘船游览 管理员. 就在那时，克里斯蒂亚诺决定她真的想成为一个公园 管理员. A light bulb went off. “我从来没想过要走这条路，但我很开心 with how it’s turned out.”
Says Cristiano, “Doing research was a whole different way of learning, and I really enjoyed doing fieldwork and being outdoors. But my favorite part was — and still is -收集数据并使其易于获取和理解. 成为 a 管理员 was a natural transition for me.”
A bit like Sherlock Holmes
Giovanni Peyo ’24
Computer science 乔瓦尼·贝约24岁的少校从海地来到火博体育. One of his father’s friends, who was familiar with U.S. colleges, gave him a short list of possible places. 火博体育 was on it.
The S3M scholar hit the ground running when he arrived in Saratoga Springs, independently 大一的春天，他想找一份计算机科学的实习工作. 同样的 semester, he took an intro computer science class with his advisor, Associate Professor Christine Reilly, with whom he also did summer research analyzing the relative efficiency of the programming languages Java and Python. Along the way, Peyo learned that computer 科学是一个“广阔的领域”，数据科学不适合我.”
Eager to gain experience, Peyo landed a position during the summer after his sophomore year as an information 安全 intern with The Baupost Group, a $30 billion Boston-based investment management firm. 这段经历使他对……有了宝贵的见解 最佳实践、信息安全控制和业务连续性——知识 he parlayed the following summer into a cyber risk and financial advisory internship at Deloitte’s Boston offices, where he was introduced to system resilience and cloud 安全.
Before going to Boston, Peyo broadened his horizons by spending his spring semester studying at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and finding time to visit nine different countries. Peyo has a full-time job lined up at Deloitte.
It’s ironic that my new passion is cyber 安全. In my younger years, I had so much fun jumping networks on online gaming sites. I guess the Sherlock Holmes in me cuts 两种方法.Giovanni Peyo ’24
Engineering college on their own
Pauline Searles ’15
15岁的Pauline Searles就读于附近的Glens Falls高中，主修 物理 除了2016年获得学士学位外，她还辅修了计算机科学 in engineering from Dartmouth College as part of 火博体育’s cooperative dual degree program.
They are currently a senior project engineer on the engineering and construction team for Enel Green Power, a worldwide developer and operator of renewable energy plants 包括水力发电、风能、太阳能和地热.
The S3M scholarship was not only “an honor” but crucial in Searles’ decision to attend 火博体育. 因为他们必须自己支付大学的全部费用，最小化 student loans was important. 作为一名即将升入大学二年级的学生，塞尔斯主修天文学相关的课程 research with Professor of Physics Mary Crone Odekon: “Fitting the Schechter (luminosity) Function to Hi Masses in Groups of Galaxies.”
When looking for an internship, they credit Crone Odekon with advising them to instead “consider applying for a job I was excited about — in my case, one in the renewable energy field — but not truly qualified for, and in the applica- tion express an interest in creating an analogous internship position.” This tactic led to an internship with 总部位于奥尔巴尼的可再生能源咨询公司AWS Truepower(现为UL Solutions) paved the way to multiple project manager positions, including four years in San Diego.
“我喜欢咨询，因为我可以和这个行业的每个人交谈 office to the field,” says Searles, who is based in Portland, Maine, and thinks climbing 110-foot wind turbine towers is pretty cool. On their LinkedIn profile, Searles lists 在他们众多的工作中，只有一项主要技能:“沟通”.”
除了他们在火博体育的核心数学和物理课程(“因为 小班教学”)，塞尔斯也有为他们效力的美好回忆 火博体育’s field 曲棍球队包括2013年进入NCAA锦标赛半决赛. They were selected All-Liberty League second team in 2014.
本文的一个版本首次出现在2024年春季号 Scope magazine.
