Bridge Opportunity for Transfer Student Success
Community college transfer students have been
targeted as a critical population where lasting impacts can be
achieved via an in-house summer program Bridge Opportunity for
Transfer student Success (BOTS). Laboratory-based research in the
summer during the transition to Colorado School of Mines (CSM) from
community colleges has been the focus of this program.
In 2018, CSM supported seven students as they transitioned to
Mines under the leadership of this grant. Students synthesized new
crystalline materials to assess thermoelectric performance. Further,
students learned about computationally-driven discovery through
interfacing with theory partners