HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RESEARCH APPRENTICE PROGRAM

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：本申请 续签一项自1991年以来一直在进行的计划，涉及 南加州大学研究中心与 头面部分子生物学(CCMB)与洛杉矶联合学院 地区弗朗西斯科布拉沃医学磁铁高中。目标是 是为贫困高中生提供实质性的 生物医学实验室经验，这将使他们体验 实践研究的兴奋和完成一项 大量的实验。第一阶段是全日制 暑期有三个月的实验室研究经验。在第一个 阶段，学生将与他们的教师导师合作，以确定 基础研究问题，学习具体的研究方法和 确定要作为自己的项目完成的一系列特定实验。 第二阶段，涉及布拉沃高中的生物医学研究班 学校，允许学生继续在 通过每周五个下午完成自己的实验来度过夏天 在整个学年里。这两个阶段是相互协调的，以便学生 在暑期有一次集中的研究经历，学习 必要的研究程序和方法，以便在其高峰期 他们可以体验到学校生物医学研究课程的兴奋 完成一项原创的研究实验。有几个学生已经能够 继续他们的研究项目几年，数据已经 已被收录在出版物、摘要和 演示文稿。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The present application is to renew a program that has been ongoing since 1991 and involves a collaboration between the University of Southern California Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Los Angeles Unified School District Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School. The goal is to provide disadvantaged high school students with a substantial biomedical laboratory experience, which will allow them to experience the excitement of hands-on research and the fulfillment of completion of a significant amount of experimentation. The first phase is a full-time laboratory research experience for three months in the summer. In the first phase, the students will work with their faculty mentor to identify a fundamental research question, learn specific research techniques and identify a specific series of experiments to complete as their own project. The second phase, which involves the Biomedical Research Class in Bravo High School, allows the students to continue the research project initiated in the summer by completing their own experiments during five afternoons a week throughout the school year. The two phases are coordinated so that students have a concentrated research experience during the summer to learn the necessary research procedures and approaches so that during their high school biomedical research curriculum they can experience the excitement of completing an original research experiment. Several students have been able to continue their research projects for several years and the data that have been accumulated have been included in publications, abstracts and presentations.