For the win: Invest in your future with iCubed!
iCubed* is a unique opportunity at UMBC for eligible first year students who are pursuing majors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). iCubed is a grant-funded study examining the relative effectiveness of four successful STEM student activities. The interventions represent tried and true initiatives employed by various high cost scholarship programs at UMBC. The purpose of the study is to establish which activities are both successful and cost effective for scaling up to benefit large numbers of future first year STEM students.
Entering Fall 2013 freshmen began signing up as Cohort 3 participants in the iCubed study beginning with New Student Day on April 13, 2013. Entering Fall 2013 freshmen may click on the following link to ENROLL.
Final eligibilty to participate will be determine by the iCubed staff who will look at each enrollee's intent to declare a STEM major, placement in MATH 106 (Algebra) or higher, and the potential for receiving other structured scholarship support. Students will be contacted by email about their placement before the Fall 2013 semester begins.
Student participants in iCubed@UMBC will receive one of five possible benefits (interventions):
- Community-based studying with other students (Team: Study Groups)
- Direct mentoring from professors in their majors (Team: Faculty Mentoring)
- One-on-one guidance from professional staff specific to career goals (Team: Staff Mentoring)
- Enrollment in a special active learning math course (Team: Active Learning)
- $50 UMBC Bookstore Certificate with access to the existing benefis and support available to all UMBC freshmen (Team: $ UMBC)
STEM Majors as defined by the iCubed project:
|
Biological Sciences |
Computer Engineering |
* iCubed is the abbreviated project name for the "Evaluation, Integration and Institutionalization of Initiatives to Enhance STEM Student Success." The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding this important study over a five-year period beginning late Fall 2010 and we expect to invite more than 2,000 students to participate. Dr. Philip Rous, UMBC’s Provost, is leading the study. Per the protocol, participants may opt out of the iCubed study at any time but they may not join the study after the fall semester begins.
Questions should be directed to icubed@umbc.edu.
Announcements
For Cohort 2 - Summer 2013
Your input matters! Please plan to complete the very important iCubed end-of-the-year survey that was sent to you electronically at the end of the semester. Thank you.
Welcome to Cohort 3
Launch Your iCubed@UMBC experience at one of the five team Welcome Week meetings on Monday, August 26, 2013 from 4:00 to 5:00 pm. Connect with your team members, have some fun, and enjoy a frosty treat! Bring your campus ID card to get your free team t-shirt.
Each team has its own color and will meet in the following locations:
Team: Active Learning (Blue)
Lecture Hall 1, Room 101, near the Biological Sciences Building and the Commons
Team: Faculty Mentoring (Red)
University Center, Room 115D
Team: Staff Mentoring (Orange)
Lecture Hall 4 - Academic IV Building,
Room 003
Team: Study Groups (Purple)
Lecture Hall 2 - Meyerhoff Chemistry Building, Room 030
Team: $ UMBC (Green)
Lecture Hall 3 - Administation Building,
Room 101 (Bring your campus ID or government-issued Photo ID and plan to sign for your $50 gift card or gift card voucher)
******