Bioinformatics: The Rutgers Initiative in Teacher Enhancement (BRITE)

该项目将为教师和学生实施一个全面的项目，旨在将生物信息学和结构生物学整合到现有的高中课程中，使其成为科学课程的永久课程。BRITE项目将让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个月的赠款期间，BRITE将在韦克斯曼学院的一个当地项目中培训多达55名教师，并在一个通过互联网进行远程学习的地区项目中培训100多名教师。教师将与参加暑期研习班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名学生从教师在当地和区域项目中的工作中受益。

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.