Environmental Science and Technology Young Scholars Program

埃塞克斯社区学院将为20名八年级学生发起为期4周的环境科学青年学者项目。该项目允许青年学者与实验室和野外站的研究科学家和科学教师合作，完成环境科学的独立研究项目，从而激励和鼓励他们追求环境科学事业。该项目的重点是向学生展示环境科学是建立在以化学、生物、数学和电子学为基础的跨学科研究基础上的。因此，提出了与环境科学有关的每一门学科的相关组成部分。为期4周的夏令营是一个强化训练期，在此期间，学生们参加讲座并学习技能，在学年期间，他们将利用这些技能来设计和实施环境研究项目。学生使用生物监测技术、经典的生态学研究方法和化学分析方法来研究特定主要污染物对特定研究区域的生态影响。然后，每个学生准备一份日记形式的书面工作总结，并在一个模拟研讨会上展示这些发现，该研讨会将在学年结束时举行的后续周末静修期间举行。

Essex Community College will initiate a 4-week, commuter, Young Scholars project in Environmental Science for 20 students in grade 8. This project allows young scholars to work with research scientists and science teachers in laboratories and at field stations to complete independent research projects in environmental science, thus motivating and encouraging them to pursue careers in environmental science. The focus of the program is to demonstrate to the students that environmental science is founded on interdisciplinary research based on chemistry, biology, mathematics, and electronics. Therefore, pertinent components of each of these disciplines that relate to environmental science is presented. The 4-week summer camp serves as an intensive training period during which time the students attend lectures and learn skills which they will use to design and carry out environmental research projects during the academic year. Students use biological monitoring techniques, classical ecological study methods, and chemical assays to study the ecological effects of particular primary pollutants on specified study areas. Each student then prepares a written summary of their work, in journal style, and presents the findings at a mock symposium to be held during a follow-up weekend retreat which takes place at the end of the academic year.