• Better teacher knowledge of YSP and participation. Solution: Teacher participation in SRCE helps us build collaborations with teachers. We also continue to partner with teachers that have had a long standing relationship with YSP. Many times these teachers pass on information about our program by word of mouth.
• The Young Scientist Program is a voluntary program that is uniquely staffed and run by graduate students, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows. Solution: Volunteer recruitment activities at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters keeps YSP visible. A particular effort is made to encourage experienced volunteers to take more progressively senior roles in program leadership. The administrative coordinator provides continuity in the program and assures a smooth transition as student leadership changes. YSP collaborated with the Teaching and Learning Center on the Washington University Undergraduate campus this year. As an incentive for volunteers who mentor during the summer, a mentoring experience can count for one of the three teaching experiences required to obtain a teaching citation on the graduate school transcript.
• Generate institutional and other support for this unique program.

• 1. YSP maintains two functions on the SSEN website, both of which provide exceptional resources for scientific education. First, the YSP Website (http://medicine.wustl.edu/~ysp) provides details about the various components of the program. In addition, this site contains numerous links to other internet-accessible educational resources. Most recently, this site has been completely updated with curriculum units from all of our Teaching Teams. These units are optimally designed to be easily utilized within the classroom setting.
• Second, the YSP maintains the Mad Scientist Network (http://madsci.wustl.edu). This "Ask A Scientist" interface permits the user to ask a scientific question in any number of topic areas, submit the question online, and receive an answer from a scientist in the field. Also contained on this site is an archive documenting thousands of question and answer pairs, which have been accumulated over the years. Both of these Web sites have provided the YSP with the ability to impact scientific education outsides of our immediate geographical area.
• YSP will maintain a library of SRCE participant curriculum projects to share with incoming SRCE participants and other teachers in the SLPHS.

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