Minority Led Program Partnership Model for Integration of NanoBiotechnology among Research Centers and the K-12 Classroom

阿拉巴马州致力于扩大和维持其生物科学和纳米技术资源，为K-20协同和利用州资源提供机会。这个MSP-START项目的最终目标是让所有学生都做好数学和科学技术的准备并打好基础，从而改善未来科学家、研究人员和技术人员的经济前景，该项目正在研究、规划和发展EPSCoR计划、阿拉巴马州纳米和生物技术产业、阿拉巴马州教育部和阿拉巴马州公立学校系统之间的全面MSP伙伴关系。这项工作的一个显著特点是，它将高度组织的阿拉巴马州激励竞争研究实验计划(ALEPSCoR)合并为合作伙伴，以促进K-12学校的STEM教育，并着眼于利用ALEPSCoR规划和机构来提高学术标准和学生表现。新伙伴关系的长期目标是：1.通过与现有NSF支持的纳米技术、生物技术和传感器ALEPSCoR研究小组、阿拉巴马州数学、科学和技术倡议(AMSTI)以及整个阿拉巴马州的学区合作，提高学生的成绩水平，从而改善当前的K-12项目。2.通过对ALEPSCoR赞助的研究生--下一代研究人员和创新者--进行教育和外联活动培训，改变高等教育文化。3.研究和评估将EPSCoR研究型活动纳入其他EPSCoR州K-12项目的方法，作为一种创新的伙伴关系模式。MSP-START项目建立在现有教育伙伴关系的基础上，通过由阿拉巴马州塔斯基吉大学、阿拉巴马州农工大学、阿拉巴马州州立大学、奥本大学和阿拉巴马大学系统校园的教师领导的进程，形成一个全面的新MSP伙伴关系。MSP-START项目参与者的工作范围是制定计划，以利用他们的优势，同时发展新的伙伴关系，特别是解决国家MSP计划的所有组成部分。

The State of Alabama has committed to expanding and sustaining its bioscience and nanotechnology resources, providing opportunities for K-20 synergism and leveraging of state resources. With an ultimate objective to have all students prepared and well grounded in math and science technology, thereby improving the economic landscape for future scientists, researchers, and technicians, this MSP-Start project is researching, planning, and developing a full MSP Partnership between an EPSCoR program, nano- and biotechnology industries in Alabama, the Alabama Department of Education, and Alabama public school systems. A distinctive characteristic of this work is that it brings together the highly organized Alabama Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ALEPSCoR) into a partnership to promote STEM education in K-12 schools, with a vision of using ALEPSCoR programming and institutions to raise academic standards and student performance. The long-term goals of the new partnership are: 1. To improve current K-12 programs by raising student achievement levels through cooperation of existing NSF-supported nanotechnology, biotechnology and sensor ALEPSCoR research groups, the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI), and school districts throughout Alabama. 2. To change the culture of higher education through training of ALEPSCoR-sponsored graduate students - the next generation of researchers and innovators - on education and outreach activities. 3. To research and evaluate a method for incorporating EPSCoR research-based activities into K-12 programs in other EPSCoR states as an innovative partnership model. The MSP-Start project builds on existing educational partnerships to form a comprehensive new MSP Partnership, through a process led by Alabama teachers and faculty at Tuskegee University, Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Auburn University, and campuses of the University of Alabama system. The scope of work for the participants in the MSP-Start project is to develop plans to leverage their strengths while evolving the new partnership, especially addressing all of the components of the national MSP program.