Providing Work-based Experiences for Community College Biotechnology Students by Developing a Biotechnology Educational Materials Supply Chain

通过开发生物技术教材供应链为社区学院生物技术学生提供基于工作的经验

• 批准号: 2000965
• 负责人: Nick Kapp
• 金额: $ 44.44万
• 依托单位: San Mateo County Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2000965&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Providing; Work; based; Experiences; Community

This project proposes to provide work-based educational experiences to help prepare community college students for careers in biotechnology. Project partners include Skyline Community College, Laney Community College, regional high school science teachers, and a nonprofit community partner, Bay Area Bioscience Education Community. The project will provide community college students with skills-based job training by involving them in preparation, quality testing, and packaging of low-cost biotechnology materials for use in high school biology courses. Examples of these materials include solutions and mixtures that are commonly used in processes such as DNA analysis in both biotechnology and biological research. As they prepare these educational materials for use in high school classes, community college students learn industry bio-manufacturing procedures and quality control processes. Production of these materials via community college biotechnology classrooms will result in savings that will be passed on, helping high school teachers to more readily provide biotechnology educational experiences in their high school science classrooms. Through these efforts, the project aims to make biotechnology science education materials more affordable to high schools and provide community college students with work-based learning experiences that prepare them for jobs as skilled biotechnicians. Building on prior work that developed a successful plan to recruit high school students into community college biotechnology programs, this project aims to: 1) Expand and improve the pilot program by building upon past success and lessons learned; 2) Create stronger linkages and educational pathways between high schools and community colleges; 3) Provide professional development for faculty and collaborate with high schools to co-develop a new high school biotechnology curriculum; and 4) Scale the project regionally, engage industry in partnerships, and incorporate long-term sustainability measures. If successful, the project will provide a workable and scalable template for sustainable technician education that incorporates best practices across multiple sectors and institutions. In providing pathways to careers in biotechnology, the project has included approaches intended to ensure that all students have equitable access to participate. An important feature of the project is its plan to expand into introductory high school science courses that are required for all students. Such an expansion will enable them to reach all students, not just those who self-select into biotechnology electives. This approach is likely to help the nation to develop a more diverse pipeline of employees into the highly skilled technician workforce. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目旨在提供基于工作的教育经验，帮助社区学院的学生为生物技术领域的职业做好准备。项目合作伙伴包括天际线社区学院、莱尼社区学院、地区高中科学教师和非营利社区合作伙伴湾区生物科学教育社区。该项目将为社区学院的学生提供基于技能的职业培训，让他们参与用于高中生物课程的低成本生物技术材料的准备、质量测试和包装。这些材料的例子包括生物技术和生物研究中 DNA 分析等过程中常用的溶液和混合物。 当社区学院的学生准备这些用于高中课程的教材时，他们将学习工业生物制造程序和质量控制流程。 通过社区大学生物技术教室制作这些材料将节省资金，帮助高中教师更容易地在高中科学课堂上提供生物技术教育经验。通过这些努力，该项目旨在使高中更能负担得起生物技术科学教育材料，并为社区学院的学生提供基于工作的学习经验，为他们成为熟练的生物技术人员做好准备。在先前制定了招募高中生加入社区大学生物技术项目的成功计划的基础上，该项目旨在： 1) 在过去的成功和经验教训的基础上扩大和改进试点项目； 2) 在高中和社区大学之间建立更紧密的联系和教育途径； 3）为教师提供专业发展，并与高中合作共同开发新的高中生物技术课程； 4) 在区域范围内扩大项目规模，与行业建立伙伴关系，并纳入长期可持续发展措施。如果成功，该项目将为可持续技术人员教育提供一个可行且可扩展的模板，其中融合了多个部门和机构的最佳实践。 在提供生物技术职业途径时，该项目包括旨在确保所有学生都有公平参与机会的方法。 该项目的一个重要特点是计划扩展到所有学生都需要的高中科学入门课程。 这样的扩展将使他们能够覆盖所有学生，而不仅仅是那些自行选修生物技术选修课的学生。这种方法可能会帮助国家培养更加多元化的员工队伍，成为高技能的技术人员队伍。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划重点关注推动国家经济发展的先进技术领域的技术人员教育。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。