WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM - BUILDING STEM CAREER READINESS IN K-12 STUDENTS

华盛顿大学科学合作伙伴计划 - 为 K-12 学生培养 STEM 职业准备

• 批准号: 10251025
• 负责人: James Benjamin Skeath
• 金额: $ 13.55万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10251025
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The U.S. has fallen behind several countries in STEM competiveness, where K-12 students are less proficient in science and math and earn fewer bachelor degrees in STEM than countries such as China and Korea. The maintenance of the U.S. economy relies heavily on innovation and technology. As well as our health systems rely on the discoveries of scientists and physicians. Thus STEM and health are critical to our nations welfare. Improving the education and STEM experiences for all students, but namely underrepresented minorities (URM) is also critical to our economy and healthcare as our country is projected to become a majority minority nation. We are proposing a program that will prepare low-income, URM high school students for careers in STEM and health. The Washington University Science Partnership Program will be housed at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and will partner with the Jennings School District, a largely African-American school district in St. Louis County. In this project we have proposed two aims to address the critical need for improved STEM education for URM. In Aim 1, we proposed to develop skills in these students in genomics and bioinformatics through authentic STEM experiences, both in class and through research internships. Science and health are approaching the era of personalized medicine due in part to the decoding of the human genome and the discoveries made as a result. However skilled persons in genomics and bioinformatics are in short supply compared to the demand and are especially lacking in URM groups. So this aim will seek to fulfill a direct need in science and prepare students for future, relatively lucrative jobs. In Aim 2 we will conduct workshops that focus on college and job readiness in STEM that will walk students through the process of applying to college as well as introduce them to the wide variety of career options in STEM. In total our proposed program is poised to increase the number of URM, namely African- Americans who enter college in STEM fields and who are retained in STEM and obtain careers in these fields. Our program directly addresses national priorities in STEM education: providing authentic research experiences to K-12 students, engaging underrepresented students in STEM and enhancing the STEM workforce.

美国在 STEM 竞争力方面落后于几个国家，而这些国家的 K-12 学生 与其他国家相比，他们对科学和数学的精通程度较低，获得的 STEM 学士学位也较少 例如中国和韩国。美国经济的维持很大程度上依赖于创新 和技术。我们的卫生系统也依赖于科学家的发现和 医生。因此，STEM 和健康对于我们国家的福祉至关重要。改善教育 为所有学生提供 STEM 体验，但代表性不足的少数群体 (URM) 也 对我们的经济和医疗保健至关重要，因为我们的国家预计将成为少数族裔占多数 国家。我们正在提议一项计划，帮助低收入 URM 高中生做好准备 STEM 和健康领域的职业。华盛顿大学科学合作伙伴计划将 位于圣路易斯华盛顿大学麦克唐纳基因组研究所，并将 与詹宁斯学区合作，詹宁斯学区是圣路易斯的一个主要由非裔美国人组成的学区 县。在这个项目中，我们提出了两个目标来满足改进的迫切需求 URM 的 STEM 教育。在目标 1 中，我们建议培养这些学生的技能 基因组学和生物信息学通过真实的 STEM 体验，无论是在课堂上还是通过 研究实习。科学与健康正在走向个性化医疗时代 部分原因是人类基因组的解码以及由此产生的发现。然而 与需求相比，基因组学和生物信息学领域的技术人员供不应求 URM 群体尤其缺乏。因此，这一目标将寻求满足科学和技术方面的直接需求。 帮助学生为未来相对有利可图的工作做好准备。在目标 2 中，我们将举办研讨会 专注于 STEM 的大学和工作准备，这将引导学生完成以下过程： 申请大学并向他们介绍 STEM 领域的各种职业选择。在 我们提议的计划旨在增加 URM 的数量，即非洲- 在 STEM 领域进入大学并留在 STEM 领域并获得职业生涯的美国人 在这些领域。我们的计划直接解决 STEM 教育的国家优先事项： 为 K-12 学生提供真实的研究体验，让代表性不足的学生参与 STEM 并增强 STEM 劳动力队伍。