EXPANDING THE HSTA MODEL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION PHASE II

描述（由申请人提供）： 这是一份申请，要求资助继续向西弗吉尼亚州四个县的经济困难或少数民族高中生传播健康科学和技术学院（HSTA）生物医学和行为科学模型。目前在23个州开展了保健技术援助方案。保健技术援助方案的长期目标是增加在医学、护理、牙科和药学等保健科学领域完成中学后教育的人数。因此，其结果是增加了该计划的目标人群中的医疗保健提供者的数量，这些人群在西弗吉尼亚州医疗服务不足的农村社区执业。实现长期目标的方法包括让学生在学年中接受具有挑战性的课外科学学习，并在夏季到机构教师那里进行真实的扩展调查。学生们还将被引导使用学生创建的教师促进俱乐部为基础的网站，以进一步传播全球的学术充实材料和探究为基础的科学项目，他们通过这种曝光进行。 HSTA的教育方法将影响常规学校科学课程和当地 通过教师和学生直接接触生物医学科学和行为健康科学，促进社区的发展。西弗吉尼亚州教育学校部、当地教育委员会和当地社区成员都对这一举措表示赞赏，认为这一方案有可能对学生的学习和西弗吉尼亚州卫生统计状况产生重大影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to request funding to continue the dissemation of the Health Science and Technology Academy (HSTA) model of biomedical and behavioral science to four counties in West Virginia high school students who are financially disadvantaged or are minorities. The HSTA programming is currently active in 23 counties. The long-term objectives of HSTA are to increase the number of underrepresented students who complete post-secondary education in the health sciences such as medicine, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy. Consequently the outcome is to increase the number of health care providers from the program's targeted population that practice in medically under-served West Virginia rural communities. Methods to achieve the long-term goals include the exposure of students to challenging extended extracurricular science learning during the school year, and to the institutional faculty during the summer for a real experience of extended investigations. The students will also be guided to use students created Teacher Facilitated Club-based Web Sites to further disseminate globally the academic enrichment materials and inquiry-based science project they carry out through this exposure. The HSTA educational approach will impact the regular school science curriculum and the local communities through direct biomedical sciences and behavioral health sciences exposure of both teachers and students. The initiative is applauded by the WV Educational Schools Department, by the local Education Board, and by the local community members as a program that has the potential of making a great impact on both the students' learning and the state of WV health statistics.