Though it had provided partial support initially, ND EPSCoR took the program completely under its wing in 2006 after the funding from ONR had ended. This project also received support from NASA PACE program (TMCC), 2002-2005, ND EPSCoR FLITE equipment funding, 2001-2004, and NSF BRIDGES program planning grant, 2004. Padmanabhan (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NDSU) and individual NDSU faculty. After the Office of Naval Reserach grant ended in 2004, the activities were funded piecemeal by NSF TCUP (Tribal Colleges and Universities Program) grants written by TCUs as well as Dr. This project allowed the team to develop and implement activities such as summer camps, Sunday Academy, workshop for tribal college faculty, and a scholarship program to create new, and strengthen existing, pathways for American Indian students to pursue STEM education successfully and to seek careers in those fields. The effort paid off when Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC), in partnership with NDSU, was awarded a five year grant from the Office of Naval Research (An Adaptive Systemic Initiative of Tribal Collaboration for Increasing Native American Participation in Mathematics, Science and Engineering, 1999-2004), to support activities designed to stimulate the interest of Indian youth from North Dakota reservations in careers such as engineering and those involving higher level mathematics, science and technology skills. A team of North Dakota State University (NDSU) science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty worked with the five ND tribal colleges to develop a proposal to increase STEM educational opportunities for American Indian students. The origin of the program Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduate Research and Education (NATURE) can be traced to an informal collaboration between the North Dakota State University Colleges of Engineering and Architecture and Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota in 1998. Since 2014, 2,762 students (of whom 2,723 were American Indian) have participated in our NATURE programs. The ND EPSCoR State Office funds STEM workforce development programs across the educational continuum from elementary through graduate school.
If you are a student, teacher, or college/university faculty and want to participate in a NATURE activity, please contact ND EPSCoR at programming includes the Tribal College Summer Camps, Sunday Academy, Bridge Camp, and University Summer Camps. NATURE programs are currently funded by the State of North Dakota and the National Science Foundation EPSCoR Track-1 Cooperative Agreement OIA #1946202. NATURE builds on activities of a long-term collaboration between tribal colleges in North Dakota, North Dakota State University, and the University of North Dakota. NATURE aims to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education among middle school, high school, and tribal college students, and to build a pathway for American Indians living in North Dakota who are interested in pursuing careers in STEM disciplines. The Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduate Research and Education (NATURE) program is an education outreach project. The system is very popular and useful for small town libraries.Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduate Research and Education (NATURE) Over 25 public libraries are members of the system and have the same access as the K-12 community. Users can access over 150 forums and state, national, and international libraries send electronic mail and get new curriculum ideas from other teachers. SENDIT can also be accessed by those having telnet capabilities. Dial-up access from terminals or personal computers to the host computer is available via 8 toll-free numbers (only in North Dakota), 6 local access lines, and local access lines at 6 county seats and all 11 higher education sites. A variation of Cleveland Freenet's bulletin board system, FreePort, was installed on the SENDIT NeXT host computer in 1992. SENDIT was developed by the North Dakota State University School of Education and Computer Center for use by school districts across the state. Through SENDIT, both teachers and students have access to the Internet, and some of the isolation associated with the rurality of North Dakota has been diminished.
SENDIT is a telecommunications network for North Dakota educators and students in the K-12 environment.
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