University of California San Diego Outreach Program To Inspire Minority and Underrepresented Students (OPTIMUS)

项目摘要/摘要 激励摩尔少数族裔和代表性不足学生的外联计划(擎天柱) 加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)癌症中心寻求创建一个引人入胜的教育 为当地圣地亚哥地区未被充分代表的少数民族高中生提供经验。这个 该计划的总体目标完全符合NCI的使命，即增加生物医学和 癌症研究人员。 第一个目标(擎天柱学者计划)旨在提供一个引人入胜的夏季癌症研究 代表不足的少数族裔高中生奖学金方案(擎天柱学者)。这一计划将 将擎天柱学者与支持性研究人员配对，以获得指导研究经验。学生们将会 同时参加涵盖癌症研究核心主题的补充教育课程， 再加上一系列的个人和职业发展活动。这一目标旨在产生一个 在我们代表性不足的学生中，对科学、医疗保健和癌症研究的持久兴趣。 第二个目标(Optimus Associates Program)寻求将加州大学圣迭戈分校的生物医学实习生和 在擎天柱的教育和运营方面教育研究生(擎天柱合伙人)。 我们将创建一门新的跨专业课程，向我们的擎天柱员工传授创建 并实施像擎天柱这样的外展计划。然后我们将提供体验式教育 通过将我们的Optimus Associates作为学徒纳入到 擎天柱学者计划。这一目标致力于培养一代生物医学实习生和 教育研究生，他们将成为创建和实施以社区为基础的未来领导者 研究擎天柱等教育项目。 最终目标(擎天柱教育外展计划)将让擎天柱学者教授当地 向他们社区的小学生介绍癌症和癌症预防的基本概念。我们的 擎天柱学者将与我们的擎天柱伙伴合作，创造一个适合年龄的互动 提供给这些年轻小学生的课程。这个目标与当地的一家非 以STEM为重点的盈利性组织，称为初级科学研究所。这一目标将得到巩固。 我们擎天柱学者对癌症的基本概念(从教学中学习)，并将有助于教学 更年轻的当地小学生了解癌症的基本知识。 总而言之，擎天柱的这三个目标利用了内部多样化和支持性的环境 UCSD帮助为我们当地社区中代表性不足的学生提供吸引人的机会。 对我们计划的支持将帮助我们在建立一支未来的癌症研究队伍方面迈出重要的一步 反映了我们社会的多样性。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Outreach Program To Inspire Minority and Underrepresented Students (OPTIMUS) within Moores Cancer Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) seeks to create an engaging educational experience for underrepresented minority high school students within the local San Diego region. The overarching goal of this program aligns fully with the NCI's mission to increase diversity in the biomedical and cancer research workforce. The first objective (OPTIMUS Scholars Program) aims to provide an engrossing summer cancer research fellowship program for underrepresented minority high school students (OPTIMUS Scholars). This program will pair OPTIMUS Scholars with supportive research faculty for a mentored research experience. The students will concurrently participate in a complementary educational curriculum that covers core topics in cancer research, coupled to an array of personal and professional development activities. This objective aims to generate a lasting interest in science, healthcare, and cancer research among our underrepresented students. The second objective (OPTIMUS Associates Program) seeks to integrate UCSD biomedical trainees and education graduate students (OPTIMUS Associates) in the educational and operational aspects of OPTIMUS. We will create a new interprofessional course to teach our OPTIMUS Associates the skills required to create and implement an outreach program such as OPTIMUS. We will then provide an experiential education opportunity by incorporating our OPTIMUS Associates as apprentices into the operational aspects of the OPTIMUS Scholars program. This objective strives to create a generation of biomedical trainees and education graduate students who will become future leaders in creating and implementing community-based research education programs such as OPTIMUS. The final objective (OPTIMUS Educational Outreach Program) will have OPTIMUS Scholars teach local elementary school students in their community about basic concepts of cancer and cancer prevention. Our OPTIMUS Scholars will partner with our OPTIMUS Associates to create an interactive age-appropriate curriculum to deliver to these younger elementary school students. This objective partners with a local non- profit STEM-focused organization called the Elementary Institute of Science. This objective stands to solidify fundamental concepts of cancer among our OPTIMUS Scholars (learn by teaching), and will help teach younger local elementary students about the fundamentals of cancer. Altogether, these three objectives with OPTIMUS leverage the diverse and supportive environment within UCSD to help provide engaging opportunities for underrepresented students within our local community. Support for our program will help us take important strides to creating a future cancer research workforce that reflects the diversity of our community.