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Many of you have participated over
the last three years in the
expanding KEYS high school internship program sponsored
by BIO5
and Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center
in the
College of Pharmacy. Thank you! The KEYS personnel
appreciate the work of the faculty and graduate student
mentors.
We hope you will consider hosting one or more of
the 2009 KEYS
interns in your lab this summer. Mentors are asked
to identify a research project for the high school
intern, suggest reading material for background information,
to include the intern in laboratory activities and
to be supportive of the KEYS Internship activities
described below, Institute training, weekly KEYS
meetings (usually Wednesday afternoons) and the KEYS
Poster Session on July 17, 2009.
If you have any questions, please send an email
to either KEYS Co-Director:
The program brings some
of the best and brightest high school students who
want to
pursue their interest in science to the UA in June
and July for
the KEYS program and are looking for faculty interested
in
hosting them.
Student interns receive hands-on, group training
during first
week, and then spend the remainder of their time
working on an
active research project in a faculty member's lab.
Upon
completion, the KEYS program pays the interns an
$800 stipend.
This year we are expanding the size of the program
to be able to
host 40 students. This expansion necessitates some important
structural changes:
• 2009 KEYS session will run for six weeks: June 8 th – July
17 th
- Students will
be expected to be in the lab for
approximately 40 hours/wk
- Interns will receive one week of hands-on
training before
they come to your lab. This training covers both lab techniques
and science communication.
- Students will
have gone through UA Risk Management’s
chemical hygiene (lab safety) training before arriving to your
lab.
- Interns will present a poster at a culminating
poster session
on July 17 th.
- Interns will receive a stipend from KEYS
of $800.00 upon
completion of the program.
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Ashley Fisher
Ashley Fisher is a mentor with a passion
for teaching and helping high school students gain
understanding. She has been working as a mentor for
five years and is currently working with the Keys
Research Internship at the University of Arizona.
(The KEYS Research Internship offers summer internships
to motivated high school students who have a strong
interest in pursuing advanced education or training
in the bioscience or biomedical fields.) Fisher has
worked as a mentor for both undergraduate and graduate
students but admits that high school students are
her favorite to work with.
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Poster Preparation Information
The posters are printed, at no cost to the faculty
or students, at the College of Pharmacy using
Indesign software. To prepare for their poster,
the students receive lessons and are expected
to complete several assignments:
| Assignment |
Due Dates |
An overview of their laboratory assignment by guidelines provided
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June 17, 2009, 8:30 am |
| A introduction or background piece that places
their research within the literature and the research being done
in their laboratory |
June 24, 2009, 8:30 am
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| A methods discussion about the work they are
doing |
July 1, 2009, 8:30 am |
| Discussion of their findings and a statement
of conclusion and what needs to be done next |
July 8, 2009, 8:30 am
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| Abstract and final versions of content for their poster, including images, data analysis |
July 15, 2009, 8:30 am |
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Calendar
of KEYS Events
During the summer institute, on Friday, and in some cases
before the institute, student interns meet their
mentors, including the PI and graduate students in
the laboratory where they will intern.
During the
summer the students meet on Wednesdays, 12:00 - 2:00, for science writing lessons, poster development training and to discuss their research and readings.
Each
student presents to the other student interns during
the summer. Often they present their work at lab meetings.
The summer ends with a formal Poster
Session, July 17, 2009, the student interns present their
research.
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KEYS
Institute Description
At the beginning of the summer student
interns participate in a week-long institute of
classes and team building activities. The class
meetings
of the summer institute are a combination of hands-on
and minds-on activities, which include guest speakers,
discussing various aspects of science research
or science literacy, laboratory techniques, and
discussion
of assigned readings. Objectives, students will
be able to:
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1. Demonstrate lab safety with the
tools of laboratory science
a. Demonstrate
excellent basic lab skills, including;
how to pipette,
how to make solutions,
how to perform sterile techniques, conduct
Electrophoresis
with
biological dyes, set
up PCR and analyze the results of PCR
b. Discuss
recombinant DNA technology
and restriction enzyme
digest of lambda DNA, as
well as transformation of E coli, and
PCR
2. Discuss strategies for
reading scientific research
a. Identify
the parts of a scientific paper
b. Apply
their knowledge about scientific
papers
to one assigned
paper
3. Keep a lab notebook for
the week
4. Identify
work ethic and other expectations for
the KEYS Internship
5. Select a date for seminar presentation
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