Fellows Enhancing Science and Technology Program (FEST 6-12)

教师-研究员团队正在学校开发并提供一系列实践经验和研讨会，以提高学生对波多黎各环境科学和当前环境问题的兴趣和认识。研究员们将环保材料和工具带入课堂，帮助教师和小学至六年级学生培养使用这些材料和工具的能力。这些团队还将课堂带到实验现场。除了UMET提供的资源外，参与者还与各种合作伙伴合作并向其学习：热带林业研究所（nsf资助的长期生态研究项目地点）和波多黎各大学马亚圭斯分校的海洋科学博士课程。参加会议的教师包括环境事务学院院长，他们代表了以环境为中心的一系列学科：海洋科学、海洋学、化学、毒理学、林业、生态学、植物学、地质学、环境教育、沿海资源、自然资源和环境传播。通过与波多黎各大学马亚圭斯校区的合作，这些为该岛发展全面和有凝聚力的环境科学教育的努力得到了加强，因为UMET侧重于波多黎各东北部，而马亚圭斯项目侧重于该岛的西海岸。这些学校所在的地区失业率很高，获得基本服务的机会很少。该项目更广泛的影响包括它提供的模式，将环境科学内容、知识和技术技能带给以前很少接触到这两方面的学生和教师，以及它为参与的大学提供的机会，通过与邻近机构的合作，扩大和丰富自己的项目。该项目得到了生物科学理事会的部分支持项目名称：研究员促进科学和技术（FEST）机构：大都会大学（UMET） PI/联合PI: Juan Musa， Alberto Rivera RentasPartner学区；卡罗莱纳州资助：$1,492,509研究员人数每年：8名研究生，8名本科生设置：农村项目的目标受众：基础NSF支持的学科涉及：环境科学与技术

Teacher-Fellow teams are developing and delivering a roster of hands on experiences and workshops at the schools that promote student interest and awareness of theenvironmental sciences and current environmental issues in Puerto Rico. The Fellows are bringing environmental materials and tools to the classroom and helping teachers and K-6 students develop the ability to use these materials and tools. The teams are also bringing the classroom to the site of experimental fieldwork. The participants are working with and learning from a variety of partners in addition to the resources provided by UMET: the Institute of Tropical Forestry, an NSF-funded Long-Term Ecological Research project site, and the doctoral program in marine sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Faculty participating include the Dean of the School of Environmental Affairs and represent a wide array of disciplines at UMET that have the environment as the central focus: marine sciences, oceanography, chemistry, toxicology, forestry, ecology, botany, geology, environmental education, coastal resources, natural resources, and environmental communication. These efforts to develop a comprehensive and cohesive effort in environmental sciences education for the island are enhanced by collaborating with the Mayaguez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico as UMET focuses on the northeastern part of Puerto Rico and the Mayaguez Program focuses on the west coast of the Island. The schools involved are in an area of the island that has a high degree of unemployment and only minimal access to basic services. The broader impacts of this project include the model it provides of bringing environmental sciences content knowledge and technical skills to a set of students and teachers who previously had little access to either and the opportunity it provides for the university involved to broaden and enrich its own program through cooperation with neighboring institutions. This project is receiving partial support from the Directorate for Biological SciencesProject title: Fellows Enhancing Science and Technology (FEST) Institution: Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) PI/Co-PI: Juan Musa, Alberto Rivera RentasPartner School Districts; CarolinaFinancing: $1,492,509 Number of fellows per year: 8 graduate, 8 undergraduateSetting: Rural Target audience of the project: elementary NSF supported disciplines involved: Environmental Sciences and Technology