Despite an increasing number of successful interventions designed to broaden participation in computing research, there is still significant attrition among historically marginalized groups in the computing research pipeline. This experience report describes a first-of-its-kind Undergraduate Consortium (UC) that addresses this challenge by empowering students with a culmination of their undergraduate research in a conference setting. The UC, conducted at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), aims to broaden participation in the AI research community by recruiting students, particularly those from historically marginalized groups, supporting them with mentorship, advising, and networking as an accelerator toward graduate school, AI research, and their scientific identity. This paper presents our program design, inspired by a rich set of evidence-based practices, and a preliminary evaluation of the first years that points to the UC achieving many of its desired outcomes. We conclude by discussing insights to improve our program and expand to other computing communities.

翻译：尽管旨在扩大计算研究参与度的成功干预措施日益增多，但历史上边缘化群体在计算研究管道中的流失现象依然显著。本经验报告描述了一种首创的本科生联合体（UC），该联合体通过让学生在会议环境中完成本科研究成果总结来应对这一挑战。该联合体在人工智能顶级会议AAAI（美国人工智能协会会议）上举办，旨在通过招募学生——尤其是来自历史上边缘化群体的学生——并为其提供导师指导、学术咨询和社交网络支持，作为加速其迈向研究生阶段、人工智能研究及科学身份认同的催化剂，从而扩大人工智能研究社区的参与度。本文介绍了受丰富循证实践启发的项目设计，并对首年实施情况进行了初步评估，结果表明该联合体已实现多项预期目标。最后，我们讨论了改进项目并推广至其他计算领域的见解。