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• 1. Meeting increased demand, programming, and public awareness. YSP activities and events increased substantially during 2011-12. A YSP blog (http://wustlysp.blogspot.com/) and Facebook page publicize YSP events/programs. In the coming year we anticipate that we will need more volunteers and resources to meet the growing requests to YSP for its many and varied activities. Calendars of events and programs have been added to the website to keep volunteers informed. Having such a wide range of events and programs, offers opportunities to meet any time schedule (1 hour to 8 weeks) which appeals to volunteers. Activities can be fit into their busy academic/research schedules. Although YSP will continue to hold fall/spring volunteer informational meetings each year to recruit volunteers, the pools of graduate and medical students and postdoctoral fellows are relatively fixed. The numbers of volunteers and time spent in volunteer activities are limited by the absolute requirement of volunteers as medical students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to focus on their academic activities. Increases in numbers of volunteers, if any, are necessarily limited. It is likely that not all requests for YSP activities, i.e. TT, can be met and must be provided on a first-come first-served basis. Some aspects of program management are met by assistants to the YSP coordinator. Several college age students (some former high-school assistants seeking work experience as seniors) have been and will continue to serve as YSP interns during times of increased activities.
• 2. Implementing new programming partnerships. Given the limitations outlined above on program expansion, new strategies for disseminating YSP components need to be developed. This includes, but is not limited to: summer scientific research experiences for students and teachers; hands-on activities for post BA/BS trainees to take to schools and other community events; modifying and testing hands-on protocols for children of different ages; collecting accurate and succinct data on the experience of targeted populations. These strategies need to be carefully planned to limit shunting efforts of the valuable volunteer pools that, as indicated in the summary of Challenge 1, are base on the fully engaged but finite pool of volunteers. Further, investigation of ways to economically off load responsibilities for dissemination to non-volunteers is one way to resolve this fortunate success based crisis.

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