Vanguard targets inner city schools with poor math and science programs and finds those students with the motivation and capability to excel as engineers or computer professionals. They're not your typical engineering students. Their SATs are considerably lower, but when we finish with them, they are very competent. We send them to the best schools and they do exceedingly well. Part of the difficulty for Native Americans is that their number is so small, it is sometimes overshadowed by other groups.
Some initiatives can be counterproductive, though.
There are people who promote the notion that you have to be born with a particular genetic makeup to be an engineer. If you ask me, they're doing harm. If you ask them, we're doing harm.