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In 1994 HHMI awarded the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center $425,000 to support its Science Education Partnership, which creates partnerships between secondary school science teachers and research scientists. The program has four partner sites serving 20 to 25 new teachers each year. The program involves hands-on molecular biology workshops for teachers, individual experience working in the laboratory with mentor scientists, group discussions and lectures, classroom lesson preparation, and access to equipment kits and scientific resources for classroom use. Scientists serve as volunteer mentors and work with teachers to negotiate the general content for the summer laboratory phase. Kits, to be maintained and distributed by the center, introduce students to current concepts of biomedical research and biotechnology through hands-on exploration. They include equipment and materials necessary for gel electrophoresis, column chromatography, DNA isolation, bacterial transformation, biotechnology-manufacturing quality control, and fly genetics.
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