TeaM SCoRE Biotechnology: Teachers in Montana Strengthening the Continuity of Rural Education in Biotechnology

Flathead Valley社区学院（FVCC）将实施“团队得分生物技术：蒙大拿州教师加强生物技术农村教育的连续性”，以增加进入FVCC生物技术项目的高中生人数。具体的策略是为高中教师提供专业发展研讨会，为高中学生提供动手生物技术实验室体验，这些都是与pi和FVCC学生合作完成的。FVCC服务区的许多高中都在农村，这个项目将有助于蒙大拿州西北部农村的劳动力教育。TeaM SCoRE Biotechnology将通过接触蒙大拿州西北部农村的高中学生和教师，提高FVCC生物技术项目的知名度和规模。它还将利用FVCC之前的ATE，“加强生物技术农村教育的连续性”（奖励#1104075），以及社区大学本科研究计划（CCURI，奖励#1524353和#1118679）的工作。TeaM SCoRE将为高中教师提供专业发展研讨会，以及实施生物技术实验室练习所需的设备和材料，目的是为高中学生准备FVCC生物技术项目。在社区大学和高中的合作中，有可能学习到有效的实践，这些合作如何支持学生在高等教育中的过渡和坚持，以及在农村环境中吸引学生的实践是最有效的。项目评估将侧重于确定最能吸引高中教师的活动，以及这些项目如何提高高中学生的知识和技能。传播计划将以当地为重点，与当地和区域媒体合作，并将利用区域和国家的ATE网络。

Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) will implement "TeaM SCoRE Biotechnology: Teachers in Montana Strengthening the Continuity of Rural Education in Biotechnology" to increase the number of high school students who matriculate into FVCC's biotechnology program. Specific strategies are professional development workshops for high school teachers and hands-on biotechnology lab experiences for high school students, both done in collaboration with the PIs and FVCC students. Many of the high schools in the FVCC service area are rural and this project will contribute to educating the workforce in rural, northwestern Montana.TeaM SCoRE Biotechnology will increase the awareness and the size of FVCC's biotechnology program by reaching out to high school students and teachers in rural northwestern Montana. It will also leverage the prior ATE at FVCC, "Strengthening Continuity of Rural Education in Biotechnology" (Award #1104075), and the work of the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI, Award #1524353 and #1118679). TeaM SCoRE will provide professional development workshops for high school teachers along with equipment and materials needed to implement biotechnology laboratory exercises, with the goal of preparing high school students for the FVCC biotechnology program. There is the potential to learn about effective practices in community college and high school collaborations, how those collaborations support student transitions and persistence in higher education, and what practices are most effective in engaging students in a rural environment. Project evaluation will focus on identifying the activities that best engage high school teachers, and how these projects improve the knowledge and skills of high school students. The dissemination plan will have a local focus, by working with local and regional media, and will take advantage of the regional and national ATE networks.