Going to Middle and Early High School Classes with Near-Peer Mentors

描述（申请人提供）：在中学/高中阶段开发了近同伴指导的概念，并将其用于沃尔特里德陆军研究所（WRAIR）的夏季科学教育增强计划，现在称为数学和科学教育或GEMS的收益，现在我们的目标是最终将该计划扩展到广泛的，以研究机构为基础的年轻人来源，在城市哥伦比亚特区公立学校（特定学校）和几所农村贫困学校（弗雷德里克县和霍华德县）的科学教学中，特别挑选的、接近同龄人的导师配备了工具包、工具、师生开发的课程、热情、时间和天赋。我们将此计划描述为一个新的校内组成部分，涉及科学俱乐部和午餐计划，以我们宝贵的夏季科学培训模块和导师计划为模式。我们的内部计划是在研究所的最大容量。近同行导师将在WRAIR的个人实验室工作，同时完善/调整新的GEMS-X计划的实践活动，这些活动将在华盛顿特区的麦金利技术HS、玛丽安科什兰博物馆、根特许学校和林肯初中HS、马里兰州弗雷德里克的西弗雷德里克中学、马里兰州霍华德县的弗利区中学和格伦内尔格HS进行。根据这些城市/农村地区的当地人口统计数据，少数民族和处境不利的青年，无论男女，在这么小的年龄就参加定量学科的具体学习之后，越来越多地选择科学、数学、工程和技术职业。这些学生中的许多人在学校内学习具有挑战性的课程，大大提高了标准化考试成绩，获得了实习机会，得到了科学家和医务人员的推荐，最终能够进入以前无法实现的卫生职业。与公共卫生的相关性：在数学和科学教育（GEMS）计划的收益教育多样化的学生群体，以利于他们的科学教育，并最终可能提高成功进入健康或健康相关的专业参与个人的可能性。医学教育已被证明能改善公众健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Having developed the concept of near-peer mentorship at the middle school/high school level and utilized it in a summer science education enhancement program now called Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science or GEMS at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), it is now our goal to ultimately expand this program into an extensive, research institute-based source of young, specially selected, near-peer mentors armed with kits, tools, teacher-student developed curricula, enthusiasm, time and talent for science teaching in the urban District of Columbia Public Schools (specific schools) and several more rural disadvantaged schools (Frederick and Howard Counties) in science teaching. We describe this program as a new in-school component, involving science clubs and lunch programs, patterned after our valuable summer science training modules and mentorship program. Our in-house program is at its maximum capacity at the Institute. Near-peer mentors will work in WRAIR's individual laboratories while perfecting/adapting hands-on activities for the new GEMS-X program to be carried out at McKinley Technology HS, Marian Koshland Museum, Roots Charter School and Lincoln Junior HS in DC, West Frederick Middle School, Frederick, MD and Folly Quarter Middle School and Glenelg HS, in Howard County, MD. Based on local demographics in these urban/rural areas, minority and disadvantaged youth, men and women, may choose science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) careers with increasing frequency after participating, at such an early age, in specific learning in the quantitative disciplines. Many of these students take challenging courses within their schools, vastly improve their standardized test scores, take on internship opportunities, are provided recommendations from scientists and medical staff and ultimately are able to enter health professions that were previously unattainable. Relevance to Public Health: The Gains in the Education of Mathematics and Science (GEMS) program educates a diverse student population to benefit their science education and ultimately may improve the likelihood of successfully entry into a health or health-related professions for participating individuals. Medical education has been show to improve public health.