CITYLAB: A BIOTECHNOLOGY LEARNING LABORATORY

描述(改编自申请者摘要)：有详细的文件记录 学校往往缺乏必要的资源来介绍学生和他们的 教师的现代实践科学，特别是与人类健康有关的科学 申请。CityLab，一个地区性的生物技术学习实验室，提供 对于初中生和他们的学生来说，这样的科学体验 老师们。CityLab位于一个城市医疗中心，是 波士顿大学大波士顿高中的科学家和教育工作者 老师们。CityLab拥有最先进的设备，四名全职教师和 科学家为学生和教师提供实验室机会 按天算。自1992年成立以来，超过20,000名学生，三分之一 他们是少数民族，其中一半是女性，使用过CityLab。这 去年，CityLab和MobileLab都被预订一空 1999年9月12日。七个基于问题的实验模块是完全 可以动手术。下一阶段的SEPA除了维护 目前的城市实验室计划：一个是城市实验室学者的发展 计划，包括城市实验室学院的改建；第二个是 我们节目的持续传播和评估。最重要的是，一个 需要维持已经实施的极其成功的CityLab计划。 作为这项努力的一部分，我们将解决独特的MobileLab，这是一个扩展 在国家环保总局资金的帮助下创建的BUSM CityLab。不同的模式 将探索MobileLab的使用。我们在CityLab面临的困境之一是 我们与学生访问者之间缺乏连贯性。在 一开始，我们不得不做出选择--我们是否允许数千名学生 每年参加城市实验室，还是我们允许相对较少的学生 CityLab必须提供更深入的机会？我们选择了前者， 但我们认为，这两种方法都是非常有价值的。随着对 我们的奖学金项目在这笔赠款中，我们相信我们可以提供这两种方式。 我们计划确定一部分CityLab参与者，他们将符合资格 城市实验室学者。这些学者将参加一个结构良好的 计划途径，保持连续性，有望刺激他们 去追求生物科学的事业。夏令营，研究项目，助学金， 和咨询都是学者计划的一部分，旨在保持 学生承诺从他们的二年级到他们的大四城市实验室。 在未来三年，CityLab将继续并扩大其 向其学生和教师社区提供生物技术服务。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the applicants abstract): It is well documented that schools often lack the resources necessary to present students and their teachers' modern-day, hands-on science, particularly with human health applications. CityLab, a regional biotechnology learning laboratory, provides such scientific experiences for middle and high school students and their teachers. Located in an urban medical center, CityLab is a partnership of scientists and educators at Boston University with greater Boston high school teachers. CityLab has state-of-the-art equipment, four full time teachers and scientists providing laboratory opportunities for students and teachers on a daily basis. Since its 1992 inception, more than 20,000 students, a third of whom are minorities, and half of whom are women, have used CityLab. This year, both CityLab and the MobileLab have been completely booked since September 12, 1999. Seven problem-based laboratory modules are fully operable. The next SEPA phase has two goals in addition to maintenance of the present CityLab program: one is the development of a CityLab Scholars program, including the remodeling of the CityLab Academy; and the second is the on-going dissemination and evaluation of our programs. Above all, one needs to maintain the extremely successful CityLab program already in place. As part of this endeavor, we will address the unique MobileLab, an extension of BUSM CityLab, created with the help of SEPA funds. Different modes of MobileLab use will be explored. One of the dilemmas we face at CityLab is the lack of continuity that we have with our student visitors. In the beginning, we had to make a choice - do we allow several thousand students annually to partake in CityLab or do we allow relatively few students the opportunities CityLab has to offer but in greater depth? We chose the former, but we believe both are very valuable approaches. With the introduction of our Scholars Program in this grant, we believe we can offer both modalities. We plan to identify a subset of CityLab participants who will qualify as CityLab Scholars. These Scholars will participate in a well-structured program pathway, maintaining a continuity that will hopefully stimulate them to pursue a bioscience career. Summer Camp,research projects, assistantships, and counseling are all part of the Scholars Program designed to keep the students committed from their sophomore through their senior year CityLab. During the next three years, CityLab will continue and expand its biotechnology offerings to its community of students and teachers.