Conference: BIORETS workshop

该奖项将支持计划于2024年1月在佛罗里达州迈阿密的佛罗里达国际大学举行的BIORETS研讨会。BIORETS是由生物科学局(BIO)提供的教师研究体验(RET)网站计划。BIORETS计划使中学教师、高中教师和社区大学教职员工能够进行积极的研究。BIORETS网站专注于利用教师的研究经验来开发课程，目的是丰富教师的课堂教学实践，并激励更多的学生考虑在STEM接受高等教育和从事职业。研讨会将汇集导师和教师，并获得积极的BIORETS奖项的支持。大约40-60名参与者将代表在22财年和23财年颁发的奖项。讲习班的目标是创建一个全国性的BIORETS实践社区，加强站点之间的联系，并分享在教师参与、课程开发和指导方面的有希望的做法。将讨论共享数据资源和工具的问题。研讨会的成果将包括一份对BIORETS项目参与者和NSF都有价值的有前景的实践、工具和其他建议的报告。BIORETS计划的一个主要目标是增加未被充分代表的群体在生物研究中的参与，以加强科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)中的种族、文化、社会经济和地理多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support a BIORETS Workshop planned to be held in January, 2024, at Florida International University in Miami, FL. BIORETS is the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site program offered by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). The BIORETS program enables active research by cohorts of middle school teachers, high school teachers and community college faculty. BIORETS sites focus on using the teachers’ research experiences to develop curriculum, with the goal of enriching the teachers’ classroom teaching practices and inspiring a broad swath of students to consider higher education and careers in STEM. The workshop will bring together mentors and teachers supported with an active BIORETS awards. Approximately 40-60 participants will represent awards made in FY22 and FY23. The goals of the workshop are to create a national BIORETS community of practice, enhance networking between and among Sites, and share promising practices in teacher engagement, curriculum development, and mentoring. There will be discussions on sharing data resources and tools. The deliverables from the workshop will include a report of promising practices, tools, and other suggestions that will be valuable to both the BIORETS program participants and the NSF. A major goal of the BIORETS program is to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in biological research to enhance ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, and geographic diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).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.