During the 1995-96 academic year we loaned equipment to 175 teachers at 156 schools thus impacting approximately 20,000 middle and high school students. We further serve teachers by presenting in-service workshops and purchasing selected new equipment for special projects. Over the past two years we have developed a close working relationship with HHMI funded teacher training programs at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington. The BBB also facilitated communication among the participating teachers as well as research faculty at Washington State University. As the technology has evolved so has the demand for this type of electronic communication.
Most teachers now access the Internet rather than electronic bulletin boards.
We now have all of the Biology Bulletin Board information on a World Wide Web site . One of the goals of the Medical Scholars Program is to recruit young people from rural areas or minority backgrounds into health careers. The Medical Scholars Program began in the summer of 1990 with 12 high school students, six from eastern Washington and six from Idaho. We now hold two sessions each summer with 12 students per session. In 1994 we began the Native American Medical Scholars Program.