Constructing a Community of Teen Health Science Leaders (THSL)

项目摘要/摘要 加州大学旧金山分校科学与健康教育伙伴关系(SEP) 旧金山大学提议建立青少年健康科学领袖社区 (THSL)。THSL旨在为其青少年提供领导力机会，为其提供路线图 参与者承认自己是“科学领袖”。青少年参与者，来自 在科学界代表性不足的背景，将与加州大学旧金山分校的教职员工密切合作 了解美国国立卫生研究院资助的为青少年健康建议提供信息的研究。通过这些 通过合作，学生们将确定影响他们社区的健康问题，并计划如何 在为期一天的健康峰会上为他们的同行分享这一信息。健康的设计 峰会(演讲者、会议风格和互动活动)将由与会者的 了解他们的社区，以及如何最好地激发同龄人的参与。这个 健康峰会还将给这些学生提供被公认为科学领袖的机会 在他们的同龄人中。我们相信，这一领导机会将产生一种 对科学的归属感，将鼓励学生参与者最终追求STEM 事业。该项目的具体目标是：1)发展青少年健康社区 科学领袖；2)支持青少年领袖组织和领导一年一度的青少年健康 峰会；3)与学习研究人员合作，开发经过验证的工具以 测量“科学归属感”，检验THSL对学生归属感的影响； 以及，4)将学习研究的结果发表在同行评议的期刊上，以告知和 增进科学教育界对学生科学归属感的认识。 为了研究该计划对科学归属感的影响，THSL包含了两个水平的 青少年领导者之间的参与度。在该项目的整个过程中，80名学生将担任 初级领导人，其中15名学生被选为随后几年重新加入该项目的学生 高级领导。隶属于科学调查仪器将比较所有人的回答 THSL青少年领袖到健康峰会学生与会者的控制组(一生600人 资助金)。健康峰会关于健康行为的经验教训将进一步得到放大 通过社交媒体和展示互动活动分享青少年制作的健康信息 摘自旧金山湾区科学节的健康峰会。在赠款的有效期内加在一起， 我们预计将通过公共卫生信息传递给另外52,000多人 由青少年设计和协助。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) proposes Constructing a Community of Teen Health Science Leaders (THSL). THSL is designed as a leadership opportunity that offers a roadmap for its teen participants to recognize themselves as “science leaders.” The teen participants, from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences, will work closely with UCSF faculty to understand the NIH-funded research that informs teen health recommendations. Through these collaborations, the students will identify health issues that impact their community and plan how to share this information at a one-day Health Summit for their peers. Design of the Health Summit (its speakers, session styles, and interactive activities) will be informed by participants’ knowledge of their community and how best to inspire engagement among their peers. The Health Summit will also give these students the opportunity to be recognized as science leaders among their peers. We believe that this leadership opportunity will engender a sense of belonging in science that will encourage the student participants to ultimately pursue STEM careers. The specific aims for this project are to: 1) Develop a community of Teen Health Science Leaders; 2) Support Teen Leaders as they organize and lead the annual Teen Health Summit; 3) In collaboration with learning researchers, develop a validated instrument to measure “Belonging in Science,” and test the impact of THSL on students’ sense of belonging; and, 4) Publish the results of the learning research in peer-reviewed journals to inform and advance the science education community’s understanding of student belonging in science. In order to study the program’s impact on belonging in science, THSL incorporates two levels of engagement among the Teen Leaders. Over the life of the project, 80 students will serve as Junior Leaders, with 15 of these students selected to rejoin the program in subsequent years as Senior Leaders. The Belonging in Science survey instrument will compare the responses of all THSL Teen Leaders to the control group of Health Summit student attendees (600 over the life of the grant). Lessons on healthy behaviors from the Health Summit will be further amplified by sharing teen-crafted health messaging via social media and by presenting interactive activities from the Health Summit at the Bay Area Science Festival. Combined over the life of the grant, we anticipate reaching more than 52,000 additional people with public health messaging designed and facilitated by teens.