Partnership for Plant Genomics Education

植物基因组学教育伙伴关系(PPGE)正在以互动软件和相关课程的形式编写植物基因组学和生物技术教育材料，供全国传播。为了增加对生物技术行业感兴趣的合格社区大学和高中生的人才库，暑期实习计划为学生提供技术经验。培训讲习班帮助教师最大限度地利用软件和相关活动，从而促进在课堂上处理这些概念的不断扩大的教育工作者网络。此外，为期一周的暑期基因组学教师学院、历史悠久的黑人学院和大学的生物技术研究所以及农业生物技术研讨会，扩大了有资格在中学课堂上有效教授这些主题的教师队伍。该软件项目通过提供有趣的虚拟实践体验、关于植物基因组学和现代作物生物技术的基本知识以及与该技术相关的伦理问题的信息，在全国范围内影响了学生。培训讲习班和暑期教师学院的目标是为代表不足的少数群体服务的教育工作者。此外，该项目继续主办与11个1890个机构合作举办的夏季生物技术讲习班。为了增加有兴趣从事生物技术行业职业的合格学生的数量，暑期实习计划将学生安排在加州大学戴维斯分校的指定导师的实验室环境中。在这个为期八周的项目中，学生们将培养有市场的实验室技能，未来的技术人员将深入了解现实世界的工作环境。学生获得津贴，以促进有效地招募代表不足的群体参加学生实习计划。该项目有助于培养见多识广的公民，了解农业生物技术和新兴基因组学领域的概念、技术术语和问题。该项目还产生了一批训练有素的合格学生和教师，从而扩大了进入社区学院、大学和私营行业生物技术培训计划的中学生的渠道。PPGE建立在之前成功的项目结构的基础上，将基于DNA的概念和技术引入当地高中生物项目。

The Partnership for Plant Genomics Education (PPGE) is developing plant genomics and biotechnology educational materials in the form of interactive software and associated curricula for national dissemination. In order to increase the pool of qualified community college and high school students interested in pursuing careers in the biotechnology industry, summer internship programs provide students with technical experiences. Training workshops assist teachers in making the best use of the software and associated activities, thereby fueling the growing network of educators tackling these concepts in the classroom. In addition, a weeklong summer genomics teacher institute, a biotechnology institute for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and an agriculture biotechnology workshop expand the pool of teachers qualified to teach these topics effectively in the secondary classroom. The software project impacts students on a national scale by providing interesting, virtual-hands-on experience, information about the essentials of plant genomics and modern crop biotechnology and ethical issues related to the technology. Training workshops and the summer teacher institute target educators serving underrepresented minorities. In addition, the project continues to host a summer biotechnology workshop given in collaboration with eleven 1890 institutions. In order to increase the pool of qualified students interested in pursuing careers in the biotechnology industry, summer internship programs place students in laboratory settings with a designated mentor at UC Davis. During this eight week program, students develop marketable lab skills and prospective technicians gain insight into real-world work environments. Students receive a stipend to facilitate the effective recruitment of under-represented groups to the student internship program. The project helps to cultivate an informed citizenry that understands the concepts, technical terms, and issues involved in agricultural biotechnology and the burgeoning field of genomics. The project also generates a trained pool of qualified students and teachers, thereby expanding the pipeline of secondary students entering into biotechnology training programs in community colleges, universities, and private industry. The PPGE builds from the structure of a previous successful program in introducing DNA based concepts and technologies to local high school biology programs.