Inquiry Proposal

stonewall,

Great topic.  Keep in mind as you begin investigating how broadly or narrowly you want to focus.  For example, there's a whole literature on college access that is somewhat distinct from the literature on accessible STEM preparation.  Good idea to start with what you're learning through your placement, and you might want to focus on Hispanic students generally or even specifically on Hispanic middle schoolers, depending on what/how much you find.  A few years ago Victor Donnay organized a conference on these kinds of questions at Bryn Mawr, and I'm thinking you might email him and also Bonnie Hallam, who did the administrative work, to see if you could get ahold of key references from that event.