Bioinformatics: The Rutgers Initiative in Teacher Enhancement (BRITE)

该项目将为教师和学生实施一个综合项目，旨在将生物信息学和结构生物学融入现有的高中课程，使其成为科学课程的永久提供。 BRITE项目将使高中教师和学生参与一系列科学挑战，这些挑战的答案需要使用分子生物学，结构生物学和生物信息学的计算工具。 在36个月的赠款期内，BRITE将在Waksman研究所的一个地方项目中培训多达55名教师，并在一个通过互联网远程学习进行的区域项目中培训100多名教师。 教师将与参加暑期研究所的学生一起实地测试挑战，然后将挑战引入课堂科学教学。 每年约有5，500名学生将受益于教师在地方和区域项目中的工作。

This project will implement a comprehensive project for teachers and students designed to integrate bioinformatics and structural biology into existing high school programs so that it becomes a permanent offering of the science curriculum. The BRITE project will engage high school teachers and students in a series of scientific challenges, the answers to which require using the computational tools of molecular biology, structural biology and bioinformatics. Over the 36-month period of the grant, BRITE will train up to 55 teachers in a local project at the Waksman Institute and over 100 teachers in a regional project conducted through distance learning on the Internet. Teachers will field-test challenges with students participating in summer institutes, then introduce the challenges into classroom science teaching. Each year approximately 5,500 students will benefit from their teachers' work in the local and regional projects.