Discovery to Cure Summer Program

描述(由申请人提供)：当前教育体系中的一个主要问题是对有天赋的高中生接触科学的机会不足。这意味着选择应用科学作为职业选择的学生数量继续减少。PIs提出，早期接触活跃的科学经验可以对年轻学生对科学的认知产生重大影响，从而吸引他们投身科学事业。发现治愈高中实习计划(DTCHIP)考虑了动机强烈的国家申请者，包括那些来自服务不足和贫困种族和环境的申请者，并为他们提供了在耶鲁医学院学术科学中心实验室与主要研究人员合作的机会。在过去的九年里，该计划指导了200多名实习生，并已扩大到包括本科生和高中教师。PIs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，并让他们接触到生物医学研究职业的兴奋和可能性。他们的具体目标如下：目标1)为所有实习生提供高质量的动手体验。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，在项目结束时提交给导师、教师和同行。目标2)鼓励科学好奇心、合作精神和培养批判性思维。实习生开发他们自己的科学项目，这将 在他们所在的机构，在学年期间进一步扩大，鼓励他们参加国家科学活动。到目前为止，该项目以有限的资源，在越来越多的年轻人心中产生了影响。来自国立卫生研究院的支持将使我们能够扩大和改进我们的使命，并接触到更多的本地和全国学生。耶鲁大学的设施和环境为吸引年轻人进入科学世界提供了最佳场所之一。

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.