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Geeta Verma; Sogol Asaei; Jacob D. Hostert; Rebecca Ahn; Julie N. Renner – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
A synergetic approach to combine service learning at the university level with a high school outreach program is described. A holistic view is presented by discussing the importance of outreach and service learning, survey results, and outcomes. Overall, it was found that the unique program increased the self-efficacy (belief about one's…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Females, Service Learning, Self Efficacy
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Adel Karara; Anjan Nan; Yen Dang; Rekha Shukla – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2023
The Maryland Action for Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Research (MADDPR) Program provides hands-on lab experience and mentoring to underserved minority high school students. Over 4 years, 93 high school students and their science teachers participated in the two-week summer camp program which was led by 15 faculty from the School of Pharmacy.…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Rural Schools, Minority Group Students, High School Students
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Locke Davenport Huyer; Neal I. Callaghan; Sara Dicks; Edward Scherer; Andrey I. Shukalyuk; Margaret Jou; Dawn M. Kilkenny – npj Science of Learning, 2020
The multi-disciplinary nature of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers often renders difficulty for high school students navigating from classroom knowledge to post-secondary pursuits. Discrepancies between the knowledge-based high school learning approach and the experiential approach of future studies leaves some students…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Knowledge Level, Inquiry
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Haynes, Brittany; Brimacombe, Kyle; Hare, Christy; Faupel-Badger, Jessica – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) defines translational science as "the field of investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational process." A major goal of translational science is to determine commonalities across projects to…
Descriptors: National Organizations, Training, Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development
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Karara, Adel H.; Nan, Anjan; Goldberg, Barbara; Shukla, Rekha – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
The Maryland Action for Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Research (MADDPR) Program provides hands-on lab experience and mentoring to underserved minority high school students. With the inability to conduct an in-person STEM summer camp, the program transitioned to a virtual format in 2020. Thirty-three students and their PLTW teacher participated…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Biomedicine, Summer Programs, Computer Simulation
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Watson, Lucy – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The 'Global Student Collective' is a telecollaboration project on the International Foundation Year (IFY) programme at the University of Southampton. IFY students were connected with volunteers in Brazil, India, Hungary, and Italy online in order to find out more about their countries. The project required the students to exercise multiple…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
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Gardea, Jessica; Rios, Laura; Pal, Rituraj; Gardea-Torresdey, Jorge L.; Narayan, Mahesh – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
The Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program of the Academy of Applied Science has funded several high school student summer internships to work within the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at El Paso. Over the last nine years, young Mexican-American scholars have been recruited into STEM-specific (science, technology,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Folk Culture, Science Laboratories, Foreign Countries