Would you like to be a scientist? Discover Biomedical Sciences! - Phase I/II

描述（由申请人提供）：这个NCRR科学教育伙伴奖题为“你想成为一名科学家吗？”“发现生物医学科学！”有两个相互关联的目标。一方面，它试图让内城小学的孩子们接触到生物医学科学，因此，鼓励他们尽早对科学发现和卫生事业感到兴奋。另一方面，它寻求训练理科生成为他们的科学的良好传播者，让他们参与把科学——特别是与健康有关的发现——带给公众。为了实现这些目标，我们提出了以下具体目标：具体目标1：创建一个由生物医学本科生运行的科学推广计划，针对四年级学生。这个拓展项目将有两个组成部分：A)一个“反向”科学展，模仿儿童评委！神经科学展览会，我们过去也用过。该活动将侧重于神经科学概念，并将为儿童提供学习经验，为广泛理解大脑如何工作以及大脑功能如何与行为相关奠定基础。B)四年级学生和生物医学本科生之间的指导计划，大学生将与小学生一起工作，并作为他们课程中科学部分的资源。具体目标2：开展一项公共宣传活动，利用具有科学内容的影片向公众宣传生物医学科学和其他与健康有关的主题，由研究人员或临床医生进行讨论，这些研究人员或临床医生不仅可以提供最好的科学专门知识，而且还可以作为模仿的榜样。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This NCRR Science Education Partnership Award titled "Would you like to be a scientist? Discover Biomedical Sciences!" has two interrelated goals. On the one hand, it seeks to expose children from inner city elementary schools to the biomedical sciences, and, as a consequence, encourage them early on with the excitement of scientific discovery and health careers. On the other hand, it seeks to train science undergraduates to become good communicators of their science, involving them in bringing science - particularly health-related discoveries - to the public. To achieve these goals, we propose the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: To create a science outreach program run by undergraduates in biomedical sciences, directed towards fourth grade students. This outreach program will have two components: A) a "reverse" science fair, modeled after the Kids Judge! Neuroscience Fairs that we have used in the past. This activity will be focused in neuroscience concepts, and will provide children with learning experiences that will establish the foundation for broad understanding of how the brain works and how brain functioning relates to behavior. B) a mentoring program between the 4th graders and the Biomedical Sciences undergraduates, whereby the college students will work with, and serve as a resource for the elementary school children for the science portion of their curriculum. Specific Aim 2: To establish a public outreach activity that will educate the general public on biomedical sciences and other health-related topics, using films with a scientific content, discussed by researcher or clinician chosen among those who can provide not only the best scientific expertise, but also a model to imitate. This application also addresses a critical barrier to progress in the field of minority health and health disparities, by contributing to increase the number of members of underrepresented groups that enter the biomedical workforce. There are two reasons for this. First, minority students in urban public schools often do not acquire essential academic skills necessary to pursue science careers. Second, as of today minority students do not have access to appropriate role models because underrepresented minorities account for a disproportionately low percentage of full time academic faculty (less than 4%) at US medical schools, and are less likely to hold senior academic rank even after adjusting for years as a faculty member or measures of academic productivity. Participation in our program will serve not only to increase access to science content and spur heightened interest in the children, but also this will come from students and faculty that 'talk like them and look like them', providing role models to whom the inner-city 4th graders can relate to.