MARC U-STAR PROGRAM AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

拟议补助金摘要：本补助金以父母补助金的两个主要重点领域为基础： 科学交流和关于种族与科学交叉的明确讨论。通过创造， 实施，并评估新的，创新的培训模块，学生将学习如何沟通 通过制作科学视频，向公众清晰地展示复杂的科学概念， 讲故事，以解决种族和科学在每个学生的科学之旅的交叉点，并回馈给 通过与当地女孩俱乐部索菲亚项目的持续合作， 有才华但有风险的圣路易斯市初中和高中学生。在疫苗、流行病学、 和讲故事，MARC学生将创建一个关于疫苗开发和设计的ASAP科学视频， 流行病学，因为他们涉及SARS-CoV-2，Tik Tok视频动手科学实验，和个人 叙述，反映了他们的科学之旅，并纳入种族的影响。我们将分享这些 索菲亚项目网站，我们的网站和适当的社交媒体平台上的视频，以促进他们的 广泛传播，希望在当地卫生官员的允许下，我们将把视频纳入我们的每周 亲自辅导和科学演示会议与索菲亚项目。关键是，拟议的课程是 适应远程，面对面或混合学习模式，并将为学生提供创造性， 在这充满挑战的一年里，我们将共同努力。 建议的培训单元的主要可衡量目标如下：1）提高学生的 疫苗和流行病学知识; 2）提高学生的能力和信心，有效的科学 与公众沟通和以团队为基础的科学; 3）扩大学生的声音和归属感 通过团队合作，讲故事，和外展活动，我们将对所有学生进行测试前/测试后调查 通过对每个目标的定量和定性问题来跟踪他们的观点，以评估我们的培训是否 实现其目标。作为MARC计划主任，将帮助监督创建和实施的各个方面 在学习模块中，他将完美地将这些活动整合到MARC研讨会中， 今后，外部支持将大大减少，确保所有拟议活动的可持续性。

Summary of Proposed Supplement: This supplement builds on two major areas of focus of the parent grant – scientific communication and explicit discussions on the intersection of race and science. Through the creation, implementation, and evaluation of new, innovative training modules, students will learn how to communicate complex science concepts clearly to the public by creating science videos, develop a personal narrative that uses storytelling to address the intersection of race and science in each student's scientific journey, and give back to the local underserved community via an ongoing collaboration with The Sophia Project, a local girls club for talented but at-risk St. Louis City middle and high school students. Guided by experts on vaccines, epidemiology, and storytelling, MARC students will create one ASAP Science video on vaccine development and design or epidemiology as they relate to SARS-CoV-2, a Tik Tok video on a hands-on science experiment, and a personal narrative that reflects on their scientific journey and incorporates the impact of race on it. We will share these videos on The Sophia Project website, our website, and appropriate social media platforms to promote their broad dissemination, and hopefully as local health officials allow, we will incorporate the videos in our weekly in-person tutoring and science demo sessions with The Sophia Project. Critically, the proposed curriculum is adaptable to both remote, in-person, or hybrid learning models and will provide students with a creative, communal outlet during what is sure to be a challenging year. The key measurable objectives of the proposed training modules are as follows: 1) to increase students' knowledge of vaccines and epidemiology; 2) to enhance students' ability and confidence in effective scientific communication to the public and team-based science; and, 3) to amplify students' voices and sense of belonging in science through teamwork, storytelling, and outreach. We will conduct pre-/post-test surveys with all students to track their perspectives via quantitative and qualitative questions on each objective to assess if our training achieves its goals. As the MARC program director will help oversee all aspects of the creation and implementation of the learning modules, he will be perfectly positioned to integrate these activities in the MARC seminar in the future with greatly reduced external support, ensuring sustainability of all proposed activities.