Graduate and Undergraduate Students Enhancing Science and Technology in K-12 Schools (GUEST K-12)

波多黎各大学马亚圭斯校区制定了各种K-12教育计划，将K-12教师和学生的动机、定向、培训和后续活动与本科生、研究生和大学教授连贯地结合在一起。其中包括地球科学倡议：轮子科学、GLOBAL(全球学习和观测造福环境)、SCBL(基于传感器和计算器的实验室)和地质学推广。大学毕业生和本科生已经成为培训活动的重要组成部分，为未来科学和工程专业人员和大学前教师的发展和激励提供了良好的模式。因此，嘉宾K-12(在K-12学校加强科学和技术的本科生和本科生)计划建议通过资助高素质的本科生(4名)和研究生(16名)作为大学预科课堂的资源，来协调和加强大学与K-12学校之间的伙伴关系。这一倡议将与现有的K-12外展计划相结合，将使300多名教师和1万多名学生受益。嘉宾K-12项目将把大学预科教师转变为精通科学技术的教育工作者，而研究员将提高沟通和教学相关技能。该奖项由数学和物理科学局多学科活动办公室共同支持。

Various K-12 educational programs have been developed by University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, which coherently couple motivation, orientation, training, and follow-up activities of K-12 teachers and students with undergraduate, graduate, and university professors. Among them are the programs enclosed in the Earth Science Initiative: Science on Wheels, GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment), SCBL (Sensors and Calculator-Based Laboratory) and the Geology Outreach. University graduate and undergraduate students are already a significant part of the training activitiesresulting in a favorable model for the development and motivation of future science and engineering professionals and pre-college teachers. Therefore, the GUEST K-12 (Graduate and Undergraduate Students Enhancing Science and Technology in K-12 Schools) program proposes to coordinate and reinforce the partnership between the university and K-12 schools by funding highly qualified undergraduate (four) and graduate (sixteen) students to serve as resources in the pre-college classroom. This initiative will be coupled to existing K-12 outreach programs and will benefit more than three hundred teachers and over ten thousand students. The GUEST K-12 program will transform precollege teachers into science and technology proficient educators while fellows will improve communication and teaching-related skills. This award is co-supported by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.