Industrial/Academic Partnership for the Advancement of Science and Technology: "Partners for Terrific Science"

该提案结合了私营部门伙伴关系方案资助的项目中寻求的一些目标和活动。它涉及工业科学家，大学教师，经验丰富的高中教师作为72名学前教师研讨会的主持人团队。这一系列为期2- 3天的研讨会持续两个学年。第一年的重点是科学和技术在当地工业中的应用，并将主要为课堂教师服务，他们将开发在课堂上使用的材料。在第二年，重点将扩大到包括生物技术，相关行业的分子生物学方面，参与者库将扩大到包括科学协调员和科学专家，以便在整个参与学区产生更广泛的影响。通过这些研讨会，参与者将与来自“焦点公司”的行业导师建立持续的关系。“合作伙伴的成本分摊总额将达到国家科学基金会赠款的170%。

This proposal combines a number of goals and activities which are among those sought in projects funded under the Private Sector Partnership program. It involves industrial scientists, university faculty, experienced high school teachers as teams of presenters in workshops for 72 precollege teachers. This series of 2-three day workshops extend over two academic years. The first year focuses on applications of science and technology in local industries, and will serve primarily classroom teachers who will develop materials to use in their classrooms. In the second year the emphasis will expand to include aspects of biotechnology, molecular biology in related industries, and the participant pool will be expanded to include science coordinators and science specialists in order to have a broader impact throughout the participating school districts. From these workshops will come a continuing relationship between participants and their industrial mentors from the "focal companies." Cost Sharing by the partners will total 170% of the National Science Foundation grant.