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The Maine ScienceCorps sponsored by an NSF GK-12 Fellowship grant

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The Maine ScienceCorps connects science teachers and students at rural high schools with the biosciences research community of the University of Southern Maine (USM) and the Education Division of the Foundation for Blood Research (FBR).

Since 2001, grant support (NSF, DGE-0086341 and DGE- 0440560) from the highly successful National Science Foundation program, NSF GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOWS IN K-12 EDUCATION (GK-12), along with significant USM contributions have allowed the Maine ScienceCorps to address critical needs for active laboratory-based learning in science classrooms of rural high schools across Maine.

During the first five years, ScienceCorps provided NSF and USM sponsored fellowships for 29 biosciences graduate students and established a strong connection of the USM scientific community with rural high schools across Maine, by providing many laboratory based active learning experiences to about 5,000 high school students. The interactions typically involve graduate Fellows bringing activities aligned with Maine's science education standards (The Maine Learning Results) along with needed equipment and materials into the schools as a part of eight to ten classroom laboratory sessions distributed through the school year.

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