Strategies: Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP)

该项目侧重于快速变化的生物科学中的新领域和新技术。该指导计划针对代表性不足的年轻人，将在三年时间里为120名10至12年级的学生提供服务（每组40人），提供一年的预备课程，一个夏季研究所，用于职业探索和实验室指导，以及第二年与AMNH科学家导师一起进行真正的研究。它利用了AMNH重要的新资源，包括其新建的比较生物学研究生院，并以学生难得的即时性和不拘形式将科学发现带给年轻人。教学方法将是积极的，动手的，和发展相适应。该项目实施和评估了三个主要特点，使其在全国为数不多的提供长期高中科学指导经验的项目中独树一帜：(1)该计划将由AMNH的科学家导师设计和教授预备课程，这些课程将融入数字学习工具，以及导师在自己的研究中使用的技术和计算方法，包括DNA测序、几何形态计量学分析、生物信息学（包括遥感技术）、系统发育分析软件、显微镜技术、CAT扫描和冷冻实验室技术；(2)该项目将制定一项导师培训计划，通过该计划，博物馆教育工作者向导师传授基于研究的非正式科学教育技术，包括探究和实践经验；(3)将生物人类学这一博物馆的强项融入到预备课程和指导经验中。

This project focuses on new areas and technologies within the rapidly changing Biological Sciences. The mentoring program targets underrepresented youth and will serve 120 10th to 12th grade students over three years (three cohorts of 40 each), providing one year of preparatory courses, a summer institute for career exploration and lab orientation, and a second year of authentic research with an AMNH scientist mentor. It takes advantage of significant new resources at AMNH, including its new graduate school in Comparative Biology, and brings scientific discovery to young people with an immediacy and informality that is rare for students. The pedagogy will be active, hands-on, and developmentally appropriate. The project implements and evaluates three major features that make it unique among the small number of programs nationwide providing long-term high school science mentoring experiences: (1) The program will involve AMNH scientist mentors in designing and teaching preparatory courses that are infused with digital learning tools, as well as the technological and computational methodologies that the mentors use in their own research, including DNA sequencing, geometric morphometric analysis, bioinformatics including remote sensing technology, software for phylogenetic analysis, microscopy techniques and CAT scan and cryo-lab technology; (2) The project will develop a mentor training program through which Museum educators coach mentors on research-based informal science education techniques, including inquiry and hands-on experiences; and (3) The project will integrate biological anthropology, a Museum strength, into its preparatory courses and mentoring experience.