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Program Director:
Dr. Ann Chester
Assistant Vice President for Health Sciences for Social Justice
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University
Vice President's Office
Health Sciences Center, Box 9026
Morgantown, WV 26506
3042931651
achester@hsc.wvu.edu
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Health Sciences and Technology Academy was initiated by HHMI funding in 1994. It began with 44 students and 9 teachers. It has grown to approximately 800 current students and 80 teachers. HHMI funding helped over the past 12 years to leverage nearly 17 million dollars from private donors, foundations, federal agencies, and the WV legislature. HHMI funding has helped convince the state legislature to provide students who successfully complete HSTA with tuition and fee waivers to any state supported college or university all the way through professional and graduate school in the biomedical sciences.
This proposal includes requests for funding for Student Activities, Teacher Professional Development, and Outreach to Family and Community. HSTA will provide extensive Program Assessment and Program Administration at no cost to HHMI.
Student Activities: HSTA proposes to enhance 9th through 12th grade science education and interest in science for African American, financially disadvantaged, first generation college bound, and rural students through the scientists and teachers leading students through hands-on projects promoting scientific discovery using problem identification, experimental design, data collection, and analysis. The venues are summer camp experiences and academic year, after school club experiences. We will provide this to approximately 800 students and are requesting HHMI funds to provide student activities for fifty 9th-12th grade students during the academic year and to provide a one week residential campus Summer Institute experience for ninety under-served 9th graders.
Teacher Professional Development : HSTA proposes to partner with middle and high school HSTA teachers to develop and implement curriculum using multicultural teaching methods and materials rich in science, math and independent learning skills which are appropriate for populations from rural and African American communities in the Appalachian region. We will use resources of multiple college campuses to provide teachers with increased knowledge, technical resources and professional support so that they will encourage students towards science careers. HSTA will provide eighty teachers with two professional development workshops yearly and a two-week summer campus-based workshop. HHMI funds are requested to cover nine of the 80 teachers¿ expenses.
Family and Community Outreach: HSTA proposes to use the extensive resources of all partners to provide parents, community leaders and community health professionals with increased knowledge, technical resources and professional support so that they will encourage students towards science careers. The venue is HSTA¿s governance structure. HSTA is governed by a state-wide Joint Governing Board with volunteer representation from Local Governing Boards leading each region. HSTA's governing boards represent all partners: the parents, the students, the schools, communities, and higher education. The majority of the board members represent the local rural communities. This strategy reinforces the role of parents and community in the science education of the youth. The success of HSTA rests in the community's feelings of ownership and control, and long-term partnerships among higher education, public education at the state and local level, and rural communities. HHMI funds are requested to help provide board training for the Chairs and Vice Chairs of every regional board with a yearly workshop.
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