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Funded by the United States Department of Education and
run by through the UMaine College of Education, UBRMSC
brings talented high school students from throughout New
England to campus for an intensive six week program each
summer. I was involved in UBRMSC for twelve
years up through the summer of 2006 , and I had a great time those summers
working with wonderful colleagues and outstanding
students.
Over the fourteen years of this program, it has evolved from
a discipline-based classroom structure to a totally
integrated curriculum that draws on faculty and student
facilitators in biology, chemistry, psychology,
mathematics, computer science, and physics.
Students work in teams of five investigating a
scientific area in which they are encouraged to develop
and test hypotheses, analyze their data, and draw
conclusions from their results. In recent summers,
they have studied zebrafish development, Colorado potato beetle control, psychological
perception of illusions, and the growth of
micro-organisms. We hope that the students
involved in this program will develop the mindset and
tools that are so important in the study of science.
I have never worked with a more motivated and excited
group of students. The ones who complete several
summers at UBRMSC and then proceed to college are to be congratulated and
commendedI expect to see some of them return as
staff members in the near
future. [Some already have!]
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