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In 1994 HHMI awarded the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry $250,000 for a program targeting children in grades 5-7 through a university-run hands-on summer camp program and teacher-professor partnerships. Topics of the week-long program include biopsychology, the nervous system, human physiology, microscopy, physics, and the immune system. Children are recruited on the basis of nominations from each county. A symposium is held each winter for camp graduates. Older camp graduates have the opportunity to participate in both the winter symposium and summer camp, first as aides, then as paid teaching assistants. A newsletter keeps all graduates involved beyond the summer experience. The teacher-professor partnership engages fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade teachers each year from the Brighton and City of Rochester school districts. Teachers spend the summer on a research project in a field of interest at the university and can continue to use faculty and university resources through the academic year.
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