CITYLAB: A BIOTECHNOLOGY LEARNING LABORATORY

CITYLAB：生物技术学习实验室

• 批准号: 6529772
• 负责人: CARL FRANZBLAU
• 金额: $ 26.76万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-30 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6529772
• 关键词: biomedical facility; biotechnology; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; handbook; information dissemination; science education; secondary schools; teaching; urban area

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the applicants abstract): It is well documented that schools often lack the resources necessary to present students and their teachers' modern-day, hands-on science, particularly with human health applications. CityLab, a regional biotechnology learning laboratory, provides such scientific experiences for middle and high school students and their teachers. Located in an urban medical center, CityLab is a partnership of scientists and educators at Boston University with greater Boston high school teachers. CityLab has state-of-the-art equipment, four full time teachers and scientists providing laboratory opportunities for students and teachers on a daily basis. Since its 1992 inception, more than 20,000 students, a third of whom are minorities, and half of whom are women, have used CityLab. This year, both CityLab and the MobileLab have been completely booked since September 12, 1999. Seven problem-based laboratory modules are fully operable. The next SEPA phase has two goals in addition to maintenance of the present CityLab program: one is the development of a CityLab Scholars program, including the remodeling of the CityLab Academy; and the second is the on-going dissemination and evaluation of our programs. Above all, one needs to maintain the extremely successful CityLab program already in place. As part of this endeavor, we will address the unique MobileLab, an extension of BUSM CityLab, created with the help of SEPA funds. Different modes of MobileLab use will be explored. One of the dilemmas we face at CityLab is the lack of continuity that we have with our student visitors. In the beginning, we had to make a choice - do we allow several thousand students annually to partake in CityLab or do we allow relatively few students the opportunities CityLab has to offer but in greater depth? We chose the former, but we believe both are very valuable approaches. With the introduction of our Scholars Program in this grant, we believe we can offer both modalities. We plan to identify a subset of CityLab participants who will qualify as CityLab Scholars. These Scholars will participate in a well-structured program pathway, maintaining a continuity that will hopefully stimulate them to pursue a bioscience career. Summer Camp,research projects, assistantships, and counseling are all part of the Scholars Program designed to keep the students committed from their sophomore through their senior year CityLab. During the next three years, CityLab will continue and expand its biotechnology offerings to its community of students and teachers.

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：有详细记录 学校往往缺乏必要的资源，目前的学生和他们的 教师的现代实践科学，特别是人类健康 应用. CityLab是一个区域生物技术学习实验室， 这种科学经验，为初中和高中学生和他们的 教师 CityLab位于城市医疗中心，是以下公司的合作伙伴 波士顿大学和大波士顿高中的科学家和教育工作者 教师 城市实验室拥有最先进的设备，四名全职教师， 科学家为学生和教师提供实验室机会， 每天都 自1992年成立以来，超过20，000名学生，三分之一的 其中一半是女性，他们都是少数族裔。 这 去年，CityLab和MobileLab都被预订一空， 一九九九年九月十二日。 七个基于问题的实验室模块完全 可手术的 下一个SEPA阶段除了维护 目前的城市实验室计划：一个是城市实验室学者的发展 计划，包括城市实验室学院的改造;第二个是 持续传播和评估我们的方案。 首先，一个 需要保持已经非常成功的CityLab计划。 作为这一奋进的一部分，我们将解决独特的MobileLab（一个扩展） 在SEPA基金的帮助下创建的BUSM CityLab。 不同模式的 将探索MobileLab的使用。 我们在CityLab面临的一个困境是 我们与学生访客之间缺乏连贯性。 在 一开始，我们必须做出选择-我们是否允许几千名学生 每年参加城市实验室，或者我们允许相对较少的学生 城市实验室提供的机会，但更深入？ 我们选择了前者， 但我们认为这两种方法都是非常有价值的。 通过引入 我们的奖学金计划在这个赠款，我们相信我们可以提供这两种模式。 我们计划确定一部分CityLab参与者， 城市实验室学者 这些学者将参加一个结构良好的 计划途径，保持连续性，希望能刺激他们 从事生物科学事业 夏令营，研究项目，助教， 和咨询都是学者计划的一部分，旨在保持 从大二到大四的学生都致力于城市实验室。 在未来三年，CityLab将继续并扩大其 生物技术产品的学生和教师的社区。