The Supreme Court ruling concerning affirmative action may or may not be a setback in education equality. The way the schools are paid for in Pennsylvania for example, is a guarantee that people living in low-income areas will get different educational opportunities than going to a well-funded suburban school system. There are many high school students getting their education without adequate skills needed to succeed. If you look closely, they just never had an access to advanced, even basic courses, or curriculum offered at school. It’s unfair that these students’ home address, ethnic race, or household income pretty much determines the future education levels offered in the community that they belong.
UNSLA is trying to reduce this education and social barriers between affluent high-income and underprivileged/underrepresented low-income community. Low-income students are not able to afford anything like getting an opportunity to learn something like Python at school or afford research programs. UNSLA would like to help these intelligent students succeed so that they can start believing in themselves with full confidence and have the tool of artificial intelligence. As there are disparities in education in many levels due to low funding in some of our areas such as in Montgomery County, MD. Not all students in Montgomery County are affluent as there are some underrepresented areas. The underrepresented zip codes are primarily targeted to help those students in need for equal opportunity. UNSLA strives to reduce gaps by providing equal opportunity due to difficulties with education resources from underrepresented areas and students who can’t afford the education resources due to financial hardship at home so that they are not left behind their privileged peers. We believe that education is a key to win over poverty and be successful.
UNSLA strives to focus on communities that are overlooked often in need of education due to disparities in education resources. This is a first step towards building equal opportunity. Low- income students often go through series of stress negatively influencing their capability to succeed in and out of school. The public research has shown that many teaching staffs and teachers in these areas are inexperienced and less effective than the experienced teachers from higher-income school district. They also have less resources and support at home preventing them from completing their school tasks with ease. Since these students lack basic skills in the STEM area, it is hard for these students to dream higher to the next level. Thus, these skills and positive attitudes are pivotal tools for students to dig deeper with a passionate field as an academically driven student.
UNSLA provides the research project opportunities to students who don’t have access to traditional research programs at zero cost. Our goal is to reach underrepresented and low-income students globally. We reach out to prospective students unable to afford tuition for an advanced research program due to lack of academic resources at school. Students learn the fundamentals of AI and build an independent project using AI through our GLR-AI Artificial Intelligence Research Program gaining AI foundational skills as AI is used to solve today’s challenging problems, a tool for our future generation. UNSLA’s goal is to generate future worldwide national and international leaders by nurturing personal talent, creating social impact, and expanding outreach of the next leaders.
UNSLA provides world-class research programs by pairing these young leaders with expert Ivy League PhD mentors. Leadership is encouraged as UNSLA’s vision is to also create global leaders who will deliver significant social and scientific impact to the world. Our research program enables students to connect with PhD-level experts in their fields of interest, from STEM subjects to humanities. Learning to perform research enables creative thinking and problem-solving skills. By building an independent research project utilizing AI tools, students start to unlock their potential and academic abilities for a positive impact on our community. Students can create AI projects that reflect their unique capabilities of versatile AI in categories such as AI Gaming, Healthcare, Climate Change, finance, Political Science, Education, Mental Health, Sports and more.
GLR-STEM program included student researchers participating in research, lab work, and how to find a rewarding science-related career during this two-week program. Student research participants engaged in hand-on, experiential learning and lab-based intellectual experience in biology, physics, chemistry and forensic science. They teamed up and worked closely with GLR STEM faculty. GLR-Biodiversity student researchers collected marine invertebrates in the field, discovered, and documented biodiversity in the marine environment by applying modern genetic technology.
Currently, our GLR program focus is on the Artificial Intelligence. From the “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Substance Abuse and Alcohol” GLR-AI research project program, students explored different applications of machine learning models. They not only learned different types of machine learning models but also applied those models to real data sets as students applied AI to substance abuse and alcohol utilizing the programming skills they developed. We hope our future leaders and student researchers will become impact setters and contributors worldwide with an opportunity to be part of an ever-growing community of versatile AI-powered future.
UNSLA Media Team