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• It was difficult to sustain the relationship between ISB scientists and the Renton School District teachers and students. The difficulty is attributed to the distance between ISB and Renton -- a 30+ drive. To accommodate this difficulty, and keep to the purpose and objectives of the project, in Year 5 the Renton teacher participants worked to establish relationships with members of their local STEM community; and at ISB, the Science Education Liaison helped ISB scientists identify local outreach efforts to contribute.
• In Year 4 of the project, a small cadre of middle school science teachers were invited to join the elementary SEA-Science participants. As the issues and context related to science teaching differ greatly at the elementary and middle level, it was difficult to meet the needs of both participant groups, and ultimately difficult to sustain the participation of the middle school science teachers. Project staff and district administrators agreed that collaborating to develop and resource a program / partnership dedicated to the specific needs of secondary teachers would be more appropriate than "forcing programmatic fit" for middle school teachers and the SEA-Science project.
• The Institute for Systems Biology partnered with the Renton School District to submit grant proposals in effort to sustain and extend the work of the SEA-Science project -- notably, the partnership was invited to submit a proposal to the Paul G Allen Family Foundation. Unfortunately this, and a few smaller proposals, were not funded, however encouraging feedback by the foundation will provide the basis for a proposal resubmit.

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