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In 1994 HHMI awarded Indiana University School of Medicine $225,000 to provide community-based outreach programs to secondary schools to increase the number of rural students and innercity minority students gaining hands-on science education. Faculty form partnerships with 350 selected rural and innercity science teachers and students, who use the laboratories of the regional Centers for Medical Education of the medical school. Funds are used to provide stipends for students participating in research projects, to encourage high school teachers to take on mentoring activities as extracurricular endeavors, and to provide supplies and equipment. Alliances between teachers and faculty of the Centers for Medical Education concentrate on teacher training as well as content workshops.
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