Discovery to Cure Summer Program

描述（由申请人提供）：当前教育系统的一个主要问题是有才华的高中生对科学的接触不足。这意味着选择应用科学作为职业选择的学生数量持续减少。该指数提出，早期接触积极的科学经验可以对年轻学生对科学的认知产生重大影响，从而吸引他们从事科学事业。“发现治愈高中实习计划”（DTCHIP）考虑高度积极的国家申请人，包括那些来自服务不足和弱势种族和环境的申请人，并为他们提供在耶鲁大学医学院学术科学中心实验室与主要研究人员一起工作的机会。在过去的九年里，该项目已经指导了200多名实习生，并已扩大到包括本科生和高中教师。pi的目标是通过“发现治愈高中实习计划”，为合格的学生、本科生和高中教师提供高质量的研究经验，并使他们接触到生物医学研究事业的兴奋和可能性。他们的具体目标如下：目标1)为所有实习生提供高质量的实践经验。实习生在最先进的实验室工作，在PI，博士后或研究助理的指导下，学习基本的实验室方法和技术，并产生一个独立的研究项目，他或她在项目结束时向导师，教师和同行展示。目标2)鼓励科学好奇心，合作和培养批判性思维。实习生开发他们自己的科学项目，这将

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major problem in the current education system is the inadequate exposure of science to talented high school students. This translates to a continued decrease in the number of students selecting applied science as their career choice. The PIs propose that early exposure to an active scientific experience can have a major impact on the perception of science by young students and therefore attract them to scientific careers. The Discovery to Cure High School Internship Program (DTCHIP) considers highly motivated national applicants, including those from underserved and underprivileged ethnicities and environments and offers them an opportunity to work alongside principal investigators in the academic science center laboratories at the Yale School of Medicine. Over the past nine years the Program has mentored over 200 interns and has expanded to include undergraduate students and high school teachers. The PIs' objective is to provide, through the Discovery to Cure High School Internship Program, high quality research experience to qualified students, undergraduates and high school teachers and to expose them to the excitement and possibility of biomedical research careers. Their specific aims are as follows: Aim 1) to provide a high quality, hands-on experience to all interns. Interns work in state-of-the-art laboratories, under the mentorship of a PI, post-doctorate or research assistant, learning basic laboratory methods and techniques and producing an independent research project, which he or she presents to mentors, faculty and peers at the end of the Program. Aim 2) to encourage scientific curiosity, cooperation and foster critical thinking. Interns develop their own scientific projects, which will be further expanded during the academic year at their institution, encouraging them to participate in National Science events. So far the program has been able, with limited resources, to make a difference in a growing number of young minds. Support from NIH will allow us to expand and improve our mission and reach a greater number of students locally as well as nationally. Yale's facilities and environment provides one of the best venues for attracting young minds to the world of science.