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Back to Goal 1 NDeRC Goal 1d: Rubric and Survey question =Rubric= || **Acceptable**: Fellow can identify all essential elements of Integrated STEM Community || **Exemplary**: Fellow can identify and articulate all essential elements of Integrated STEM Community || =Survey Questions=
 * **Unacceptable**: Fellow remains unable to recognize essential elements of Integrated STEM Cmty

NDeRC is an NSF-funded GK-12 project, which promotes Integrated STEM Community. The following questions are about the Integrated STEM community model, rather than just the NDeRC example.

Let's imagine you become a faculty member at another university with a strong STEM research agenda but no public outreach. 1. In an informal conversation with a colleague, how would you describe the essential characteristics of an Integrated STEM Community--not just at Notre Dame, but what it could be anywhere?

2. How would you explain to your new colleagues the benefit that this Integrated STEM Community could bring to your research?

3. What benefit could it bring to K-12 teachers? Students?

NJP Suggests discarding this or revising the statements: Please identify the following program characteristics as incompatible with, compatible with, or essential to the Integrated STEM Community model which has been emerging at the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center.

The program is for graduate students only. Participation can be for either one or two years, but not more. The program aims to promote a STEM culture. The program reaches out to include kindergarten students. STEM education, not research, is the program's primary focus. STEM education is important in the program because obtaining research funding often depends upon showing effective STEM educational outreach. Science research goals matter in the program only because obtaining education funding depends upon showing scientific progress. Other disciplines are included in the program mostly because those disciplines are connected to physics. Participation in the program will end when the NSF GK-12 funding cycle ends. The program receives funding from a number of funding sources, one of which is the National Science Foundation.