HSTA TEAMS for Community Health: Teaching Educators and Adolescents Mentoring and Science (TEAMS) to Improve Community Health

28年来，西弗吉尼亚大学健康科学与技术学院（HSTA） (WVU)Robert C.伯德健康科学中心在美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的帮助下， 科学教育合作奖（SEPA），实施了一个独一无二的辅导计划 旨在帮助西弗吉尼亚州高中学生进入科学，技术，工程和 数学和医学（STEM+M）为基础的本科和研究生学位课程，其中 她们代表性不足，得到的服务也不足。HSTA提出了这一建议的新方法， 使用基于团队的指导结构来促进基于社区的 实验研究（CBPR）和公民科学（CI）项目，将由HSTA学生进行。 HSTA汇集并链接了一个令人印象深刻的跨教育层次导师网络的努力， 通过HSTA TEAMS每年支持160名初中生（五年内800名）。 HSTA TEAMS的创新之处在于将HSTA的柔性结构与长 导师联系弧线，将大学与社区连接起来，一直到高中，现在是初中 学校的学生，在超过一半的西弗吉尼亚州县在整个国家。正是HSTA灵活的结构， 允许HSTA生物医学暑期研究所和HSTA社区为基础的课后俱乐部课程， 回应HSTA家庭和社区在当地发生的事情，以及 研究人员正在观察和调查。西弗吉尼亚大学生物医学暑期研究所 教师，导师和学生由HSTA领导和工作人员与大学合作指导 教师为HSTA学年以社区为基础的课后俱乐部奠定了基础， 经过专门培训的HSTA教师指导学生进行研究。通过课后俱乐部 课程HSTA学生将使用经过验证的资源，由HSTA导师团队支持， 设计STEM+M教育干预措施或与中学生的实验。的结果 STEM+M社区研究项目将通过地区和州HSTA传播 研究专题讨论会，以及通过国家会议和出版物。

For 28 years the Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) of the West Virginia University (WVU) Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center with the help of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), has implemented a one-of-a-kind mentoring program designed to assist WV high-school students enter and succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and Medicine (STEM+M) based undergraduate and graduate degree programs, in which they are under-represented and underserved. HSTA submits this proposal with the novel approach of using a team-based mentoring structure to facilitate the development and execution of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Citizen Science (CI) projects, to be carried out by HSTA students. HSTA marshals and links the efforts of an impressive network of mentors across educational levels to support 160 junior students annually (800 over a five-year period) through HSTA TEAMS. The innovation of HSTA TEAMS is in the combined use of the flexible structure of HSTA and the long arc of mentorship linkages, connecting college to community through high school, and now middle school students, in over half of WV counties across the state. It is the flexible structure of HSTA that allows the HSTA BioMed Summer Institute and HSTA community-based after-school club curriculum to respond to what is happening on the ground for HSTA families and communities, as well as with what the research community is observing and investigating. The Biomedical Summer Institute at WVU for teachers, mentors, and students directed by HSTA leadership and staff in collaboration with university faculty sets the foundation for the HSTA academic year community-based after school clubs during which specially trained HSTA teachers mentor students into research. Through the after-school club curriculum HSTA students will use validated resources, supported by HSTA TEAMS of mentors, to design STEM+M educational interventions or experiments with middle school students. The results of the STEM+M community-based research projects will be disseminated through regional and state HSTA research symposiums, as well as through national conferences and publications.