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President's Imagination Mini Grants

PIMG Program Information 2024-2025

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PIMG Proposal Review Form

PIMG Final Report Template

PIMG Guideline Examples

 

Congratulations to the 2023-24 recipients of President’s Imagination Mini Grant (PIMG) funding

Breaking Barriers: Communicate, Connect, Care ($3,500)
Jill Robbins

Living in poverty, or on the cusp of poverty, creates barriers for students who are trying to balance time between studies, work, and family responsibilities. Many Roane State students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds and struggle to find their way through the challenges higher education can present. Training our staff and faculty to be poverty informed will provide the requisite tools for guiding these students through these challenges to the graduation stage. With this grant, three staff members from the Dean of Students Office will become "Poverty Coaches" to become trained in providing "Poverty Immersion" sessions campus staff, faculty, and even community members. In addition, we will facilitate Community Resource Fairs to connect students, staff, and faculty to community resources. By increasing our collective awareness of poverty, trained faculty and staff can become stronger supports for students thereby increasing student success.


OREOS and More ($4,800)
Tammy Howard

The need for an informative campus event for current and/or prospective dual enrollment students has been made evident by current research and personal evidence. The results of a recent survey support the need stating that over 45% of those parents/guardians polled "learned of Dual Enrollment through a friend or family member who had a child participate in the program." As first-time DE students have a need to visit campus, they experience anxiety and nervousness as they "have no clue where things are located." RSCC Dual Enrollment students and their families would benefit from the "OREOs & More" event by having a set time for Orientation, Resources, Enrollment, and Open house, while participating in various sessions regarding departmental resources, a campus tour, vendors, door prizes, food, and a motivational speaker to encourage the transition from high school classes to college classes. The goals of the event, which will be centered around the college's strategic plan, include educating high school students and their caregivers of the facts relating to dual enrollment, increasing the number of dual enrollment students through promotional and informative means, and motivating students while highlighting academic programs of study.


SHS Dual Enrollment Humanities Visit to Knoxville ($850)
Ted Stryk

This project will take dual enrollment Humanities students to Knoxville to see cultural artifacts at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, see the architecturally significant Sunsphere, and eat at the French Market. Many of these students have never been to the downtown of a city and have not experienced culture beyond their own. Many are from lower income backgrounds and first generation. This should improve academic engagement and engagement with the college of students who may be our future traditional students. And it will give students a cultural experience they otherwise may never get. It would be associated with a Humanities 1010 section offered at Scott High in the spring of 2024.


Augmented Reality Sandbox ($5,000)
Keenan Golder

This proposed project seeks to enhance the learning environment within the classroom and laboratory setting, supplementing the current teaching collections, and furthering the collaborative efforts of the students in group settings. The emphasis on problem/project-based learning in the current QEP requires that students and instructors alike explore real-world phenomena as they relate to course content. However, there are limitations associated with certain geology related lab activities when attempting to instruct students without a hands-on component to their exercises, particularly when lab collections only contain limited 3D, and are dominated by 2D, representations of land surfaces. The Augmented Reality Sandbox (ARS) offers students a hands-on method to visualize a 3D landscape surface, with corresponding 2D map symbology overlain on the geological features. Additionally, the ARS offers real-time dynamic fluid flow simulation, allowing students to make the connection between these dynamic flow processes and the apparent depressions in a surface and potential fluid flow paths on a 2D map. The ARS allows student interaction and collaboration in shaping the sand into various configurations, while the system then instantly creates a color-coded topographic map with elevation contour lines and flowing water. This equipment will improve instruction and student retention of numerous geographic, geologic, and hydrologic principles discussed in lecture and lab.


Reimagining the Cumberland Campus Learning Resource Center ($1,819)
Jennifer Rowan

The purpose of the Reimagining the Cumberland Campus Learning Resource Center project is to transform the environment of the Learning Resource Center into a more active learning environment that fosters community among students and staff. With a more inviting atmosphere, students will feel more comfortable seeking out resources and tutoring in the center. With this new environment, students will also have the freedom to engage in group study, independent study, professor-guided study, and tutor-guided study all in one welcoming place. This new and improved center will also offer students a stopping place on campus, a place to destress by having a snack, playing a few games and enjoying community. The students need a place that they feel is their own, and the Learning Resource Center can fill that need. The basic design of this project is to stock the Learning Resource Center with supplies such as chairs, tables, and games in order to create a center that equips students with a space to learn, connect, and destress in order to be their most successful selves.


Let’s Recruit Some Raiders ($4,031)
Tammy Robinette

The proposed project aims to address the lack of effective marketing materials for the Health Sciences Division's 19 healthcare programs offered alongside the General Education courses. Currently, there are no adequate visual aids that can showcase the quality of these programs to prospective students. This lack of effective marketing can result in missed opportunities to attract potential students who could benefit from these healthcare programs. The general goal of the project is to develop visually appealing and informative marketing materials that will attract the attention of prospective students and provide them with a clear understanding of the healthcare programs offered by the Health Sciences Division. The marketing materials will showcase the benefits of enrolling in these programs and highlight the success stories of past students. By creating these marketing materials, the project aims to increase enrollment in the healthcare programs offered by the Health Sciences Division. This, in turn, will help meet the growing demand for a variety of healthcare professionals and provide students with a valuable opportunity to pursue rewarding careers in healthcare.


 

 

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