REM: Biomaterials and Bioprinting Summer (BBS) School

该奖项将使主要研究者（PI）支持生物材料和生物打印夏季（BBS）学校研究和指导计划，为STEM中代表性不足的少数民族学生提供支持。暑期学校旨在为高中生和本科生提供实践研究经验，并在新兴的组织工程领域进行重点培训和指导。基于层次的学习环境涉及主要研究者，研究生和本科生沿着与新招募的开发策略，设计生物材料结构，创建组织和组织界面。参与者将获得一个关于生物材料，生物打印和细胞的基本工作知识的工具包，旨在构建工程组织原型和技术。在夏季，参与者将实施新的设计和策略，开发可用于开发工程组织原型的组织基生物材料和生物墨水。该项目将专注于促进工程，科学和技术的多样性，并将采用导师制方法，包括提供研究经验以及指导参与者专业发展，科学写作和沟通技能发展。PI和研究生导师将协调参与者的研究和指导计划，这些计划将根据每个参与者的学术水平和技能进行单独定制。该项目的参与者将把新的知识和原型演示带到课堂上，作为一种工具，以提高人们对科学和工程技术的认识。直接的好处将包括促进STEM职业发展，并解决生物医学科学/工程相关领域的长期劳动力多样性问题。该奖项旨在实施一个成功的指导计划，并创建实验室指导示范，以吸引少数民族/妇女学生在干的职业生涯，重点是重点介绍了许多职业道路，在生物医学科学，工程，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，更广泛的影响审查标准。

This award will enable the Principal Investigator (PI) to support a Biomaterials and Bioprinting Summer (BBS) school research and mentoring program for underrepresented minorities students in STEM. The summer school is designed to provide high school students and undergraduates with hands-on research experience and focused training and mentoring in the emerging field of tissue engineering. The hierarchy-based learning environment involves the principle investigator, graduate students and undergraduates along with new recruits to develop strategies to design biomaterial structures, create tissues and tissue interfaces. Participants will be provided with a tool kit of elementary working knowledge on biomaterials, bioprinting and cells with an intention to build engineered tissue prototypes and technology. During the summer, the participants will implement new designs and strategies to develop tissue-based biomaterials and bio-inks that can be used to develop engineered tissue prototypes.The project will focus on promoting diversity in engineering, science and technology and will use a mentorship approach that involves providing research experience as well as mentoring participants in professional development, scientific writing, and communications skills development. The PI and graduate student mentors will co-ordinate the research and mentoring plans for the participants that will be individually tailored to each participant’s academic level and skills. Participants of this project will bring new knowledge and demos of prototypes to the classroom that will serve as a tool to create awareness in science and engineering technologies. The immediate benefits would include promotion of STEM careers and address long-term workforce diversity issues in the biomedical science/ engineering related areas. This award seeks to implement a successful mentoring program and create laboratory mentoring demonstrations to attract minority/women students in STEM careers, with a focus on focus on introducing the many career paths that come under the broad area of Biomedical Sciences, Engineering, and technology development.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.