The program consists of three 1-year courses intended to be studied sequentially. FAST departs radically from conventional approaches to science teaching at the middle school level. The newest international participants are Russia and Slovakia. Educators there sought permission to translate FAST into Russian and Slovakian and to pilot test the program. In Slovakia, an additional partner in the pilot is the U.S. Peace Corps which assigns volunteers to assist the Slovak FAST-trained teachers.
Schools can access Internet directly via a computer account on a networked computer.
Alternatively, paid subscriptions to CompuServe, America-Online, Prodigy and other systems will allow limited access to Internet. We are interested in exploring, with regional and state nets, ways to establish entry and networking points and clusters.