Project SCORE (Student Centered Outcomes Research Experience)

项目总结/摘要 SCORE项目 青年在获得医疗保健和优质教育机会方面的系统性不平等 密西西比州（MS）是一股强大的力量，使学生无法进入STEM职业道路。 项目SCORE（以学生为中心的成果研究经验）建议让学生从 通过青年参与行动研究（YPAR），在STEM职业轨迹中代表性不足的群体 通过对COVID-19等健康威胁的直接关注，吸引并保持他们的注意力。 在YPAR方法的指导下，Project SCORE将利用近同行导师模式来参与和支持 在公共卫生领域的探索中代表性不足的学生。Project SCORE将汇集 来自两个社区的代表性不足的高中和研究生健康科学学生， 在为期一年的每周课后计划中， 问题，提供研究方法的培训，并促进学生开展研究的发展 由近同行研究生健康科学的学生和教师指导的项目。以学生为中心的研究 将制定议程，以支持未来的研究举措。学生将完成他们的经验， 为期一周的校园沉浸体验。该项目旨在提高对以下方面的认识和兴趣： 公共卫生、科学参与和STEM职业，以及增加高等教育的入学率 STEM计划，以加强和多样化未来的生物医学劳动力。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Project SCORE Systemic inequities in access to healthcare and quality educational opportunity for the youth of Mississippi (MS) are powerful forces that disengage students from entering pathways toward STEM careers. Project SCORE (Student Centered Outcomes Research Experience) proposes to engage students from groups underrepresented in STEM career trajectories through a youth participatory action research (YPAR) approach, capturing and retaining their attention through the immediacy of health threats such as COVID-19. Guided by a YPAR approach, Project SCORE will leverage a near-peer mentor model to engage and support underrepresented students in an exploration of the field of public health. Project SCORE will bring together underrepresented high school and graduate health sciences students from two communities with significant health disparities in a year-long weekly afterschool program to develop relevant health behavior research questions, provide training in research methods, and facilitate the development of student-conducted research projects mentored by near-peer graduate health sciences students and faculty. A student-centered research agenda will be developed to support future research initiatives. Students will complete their experience with a week-long on campus immersion experience. This project seeks to increase awareness of and interest in public health, science engagement, and STEM careers, as well as increase matriculation into higher education STEM programs to enhance and diversify the future biomedical workforce.