WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM - BUILDING STEM CAREER READINESS IN K-12 STUDENTS

华盛顿大学科学合作伙伴计划 - 为 K-12 学生培养 STEM 职业准备

• 批准号: 10013265
• 负责人: James Benjamin Skeath
• 金额: $ 25.51万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10013265
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The U.S. has fallen behind several countries in STEM competiveness, where K-12 students are less proficient in science and math and earn fewer bachelor degrees in STEM than countries such as China and Korea. The maintenance of the U.S. economy relies heavily on innovation and technology. As well as our health systems rely on the discoveries of scientists and physicians. Thus STEM and health are critical to our nations welfare. Improving the education and STEM experiences for all students, but namely underrepresented minorities (URM) is also critical to our economy and healthcare as our country is projected to become a majority minority nation. We are proposing a program that will prepare low-income, URM high school students for careers in STEM and health. The Washington University Science Partnership Program will be housed at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and will partner with the Jennings School District, a largely African-American school district in St. Louis County. In this project we have proposed two aims to address the critical need for improved STEM education for URM. In Aim 1, we proposed to develop skills in these students in genomics and bioinformatics through authentic STEM experiences, both in class and through research internships. Science and health are approaching the era of personalized medicine due in part to the decoding of the human genome and the discoveries made as a result. However skilled persons in genomics and bioinformatics are in short supply compared to the demand and are especially lacking in URM groups. So this aim will seek to fulfill a direct need in science and prepare students for future, relatively lucrative jobs. In Aim 2 we will conduct workshops that focus on college and job readiness in STEM that will walk students through the process of applying to college as well as introduce them to the wide variety of career options in STEM. In total our proposed program is poised to increase the number of URM, namely African- Americans who enter college in STEM fields and who are retained in STEM and obtain careers in these fields. Our program directly addresses national priorities in STEM education: providing authentic research experiences to K-12 students, engaging underrepresented students in STEM and enhancing the STEM workforce.

美国已经落后于几个国家的STEM竞争力，K-12学生在这里 与国家相比 例如中国和韩国。维持美国经济在很大程度上依赖创新 和技术。以及我们的卫生系统依靠科学家的发现和 医师。因此，茎和健康对我们的国家福利至关重要。改善教育 和所有学生的STEM经历，但代表不足的少数民族（URM）也是 对于我们的国家和医疗保健至关重要，因为我们的国家预计将成为多数少数派 国家。我们正在提出一项计划，该计划将准备低收入，URM高中生 用于STEM和健康的职业。华盛顿大学科学伙伴关系计划将 被安置在圣路易斯华盛顿大学的麦当劳基因组学院，威尔 与圣路易斯大部分非裔美国学区的詹宁斯学区合作 县。在这个项目中，我们提出了两个目的，以解决改善的关键需求 STEM教育URM。在AIM 1中，我们建议在这些学生中发展技能 基因组学和生物信息学通过真正的STEM经验，无论是在课堂上还是通过 研究实习。科学与健康正在接近到期的个性化医学时代 部分原因是人类基因组的解码和结果。然而 与需求和需求相比 尤其是URM组缺乏。因此，此目标将寻求满足科学的直接需求，并 为学生做好准备，以后的工作相对有利可图的工作。在AIM 2中，我们将举办研讨会 专注于STEM中的大学和工作准备，这将使学生完成整个过程 申请大学，并向他们介绍STEM中各种各样的职业选择。在 我们提议的计划有望增加URM的数量，即非洲 - 在STEM领域进入大学并保留在STEM并获得职业的美国人 在这些领域。我们的计划直接解决STEM教育的国家优先事项：提供 对K-12学生的真实研究经验，使代表性不足的学生参与STEM 并增强STEM劳动力。