Interactive youth science workshops benefit student participants and graduate student mentors.

ABSTRACT: Science communication and outreach are essential for training the next generation of scientists and raising public awareness for science. Providing effective science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational outreach to students in classrooms is challenging because of the need to form partnerships with teachers, the time commitment required for the presenting scientist, and the limited class time allotted for presentations. In our Present Your Ph.D. Thesis to a 12-Year Old outreach project, our novel solution to this problem is hosting a youth science workshop (YSW) on our university campus. The YSW is an interpersonal science communication and outreach experience in which graduate students from diverse scientific disciplines introduce middle and high school students to

SUBMITTER: Kompella P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7145268 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature