Strategies: Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP)

该项目关注快速变化的生物科学中的新领域和新技术。该辅导计划针对的是代表性不足的年轻人，将在三年内为120名10至12年级的学生提供服务(三组各40人)，提供一年的预科课程、一个职业探索和实验室指导的暑期研究所，以及与AMNH科学家导师一起进行的第二年的真实研究。它利用AMNH的重要新资源，包括其新成立的比较生物学研究生院，以学生罕见的直接性和非正式方式将科学发现带给年轻人。教学方法将是积极的、亲力亲为的和适合发展的。该项目实施和评估了三个主要特征，使其在全国范围内提供长期高中科学指导经验的少数项目中独一无二：(1)该项目将让AMNH的科学家导师参与设计和教学预科课程，这些课程注入了数字学习工具，以及导师在他们自己的研究中使用的技术和计算方法，包括DNA测序、几何形态测量分析、包括遥感技术在内的生物信息学、系统发育分析软件、显微镜技术以及CAT扫描和冷冻实验室技术；(2)该项目将制定一项导师培训计划，通过该计划，博物馆教育工作者将就以研究为基础的非正式科学教育技术，包括探究和实践经验，对导师进行培训；(3)该项目将把生物人类学这一博物馆的优势纳入其预备课程和辅导经验。

This project focuses on new areas and technologies within the rapidly changing Biological Sciences. The mentoring program targets underrepresented youth and will serve 120 10th to 12th grade students over three years (three cohorts of 40 each), providing one year of preparatory courses, a summer institute for career exploration and lab orientation, and a second year of authentic research with an AMNH scientist mentor. It takes advantage of significant new resources at AMNH, including its new graduate school in Comparative Biology, and brings scientific discovery to young people with an immediacy and informality that is rare for students. The pedagogy will be active, hands-on, and developmentally appropriate. The project implements and evaluates three major features that make it unique among the small number of programs nationwide providing long-term high school science mentoring experiences: (1) The program will involve AMNH scientist mentors in designing and teaching preparatory courses that are infused with digital learning tools, as well as the technological and computational methodologies that the mentors use in their own research, including DNA sequencing, geometric morphometric analysis, bioinformatics including remote sensing technology, software for phylogenetic analysis, microscopy techniques and CAT scan and cryo-lab technology; (2) The project will develop a mentor training program through which Museum educators coach mentors on research-based informal science education techniques, including inquiry and hands-on experiences; and (3) The project will integrate biological anthropology, a Museum strength, into its preparatory courses and mentoring experience.