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  1. ; (, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering)
    While engaging supports offered through a scholarship program, marginalized-identity STEM students draw on community cultural wealth to persist in an environment that is not designed for their success. This analysis focuses on the presence of aspirational capital: hope and goals that prevail despite systemic barriers for marginalized-identity individuals and communities. Semi-structured interview data from 31 students, through the engagement of basic qualitative methodology, reveal students' ongoing search and adaptation for institutional opportunities, engagement of individualistic tactics including keen self-awareness and narratives of hard work to meet established goals, relationships to trusted guides, and community-serving orientations as representations of their aspirational capital. 
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