| Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Health Assistant Program at Worcester East Middle School |
The Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Health Assistant Program at Worcester East Middle School will provide each student with a challenging curriculum tailored to the unique needs of the early adolescent. By fostering middle school philosophy and implementing the Carnegie Council Turning Points, the school encourages students to make connections between the classroom and the community which will enable them to become "Fit for Life". This is a program of UMassWorcester. |
| Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Home Work Center at Plumley Village |
The Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Home Work Center at Plumley Village encourages, educates and challenges minority and/or economically disadvantaged students for success in the health care and science professions where they are traditionally underrepresented. This is a program of UMassWorcester. |
Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Health Science Academy at North High School (NHS)
| This program provides students grades 9 - 12 with tutoring, mentoring, internships, laboratory experiences, after school science clubs, and summer research opportunities. The program is designed to improve students' academic skills in science and mathematics, and increase awareness of careers in health care and biomedical research.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Health Assistant Program at Worcester Technical High School (WTHS)
| This program provides students, grades 9-12, with internships, mentoring and laboratory experiences, and provides science workshops and professional development for WTHS science teachers. It is designed to improve students' academic skills in science and mathematics, and increase awareness of careers in health care and biomedical research.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Health Science Academy at Worcester East Middle School (WEMS)
| This program provides opportunities for students (grades 7 and 8) to participate in tutoring, mentoring, job-shadowing and summer science camp. The program provides families opportunities to participate in math and science workshops, which enable families to assist their children with home work. It is designed to improve students' academic skills in science and mathematics, and increase awareness of careers in health care and biomedical research.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Seven North Quadrant Elementary Schools
| This program provides K-6 students tutoring, mentoring on a limited basis. Medical students and scientists from Abbott Bioresearch participate in the WPC Visiting Scientist Program to work with elementary school teachers to bring inquiry-based, hands-on activities into the classrooms of these schools. Teachers will become more comfortable presenting science lessons, and students will learn to enjoy science that is presented in a knowledgeable exciting manner. This should improve students' academic skills in science and mathematics, and increase awareness of careers in health care and biomedical research.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Home Work Center at Plumley Village
| With this program students, grades 4 through 8, will begin to enjoy and understand scientific concepts, and enroll in more WPC sponsored activities. Students from postsecondary partner institutions will volunteer as WPC staff at both sites and learn about the importance of community outreach. The goal of this program is to add a science component to the Plumley Village Home Work Center by providing participants the opportunity to visit a WPC laboratory weekly, in addition to science experiences the WPC staff and volunteers provided at the home work center.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Partnership with Abbott Bioresearch Laboratories
| This program provides the students grades 7 through 12, with the opportunity to learn about careers in the bioresearch industries, and meet scientists who are willing to encourage participants to stay in school and seek careers in science. Students are requesting to learn more about careers in bioresearch, and are requesting to participate in internships at Abbott.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Partnership with the University Of Massachusetts' Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) students
| With this program GSBS student coordinators provide leadership for the Visiting Science Program and the Kids to College Programs at Lake View Elementary School. Fifth and sixth grade students at Lake View School will be mentored by GSBS students who will also be teaching them weekly science lessons. As mentors, the GSBS students will be encouraging fifth and sixth graders to stay in school and continue onto college.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative's Partnership with Quinsigamond Community College
| This program provides QCC students, and students in grades 4-6 and 12 the opportunity to participate in WPC sponsored community service activities. It also provides internship sites to high school students interested in dentistry. High school students interested in dentistry participate in internships with the QCC students enrolled at QCC's Dental Program. QCC students volunteer to participate in WPC sponsored Family Nights that that provide activities to educate families of elementary school children about careers is dentistry and radiology.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative Tours and Job-shadowing
| This program provides WPC partner school students, grades 7-12 the opportunity to learn about careers in health care and science on an on-going basis. It provides Massachusetts high school students the same opportunities, but on a limited basis. Annually, the WPC hosts and coordinates visits for 240 students participating in the National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF). In turn, annually the NYLF program provides three full scholarships to three WPC students to participate in the NYLF program.
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Worcester Pipeline Collaborative Partnership with UMass Memorial Medical Center
| This program provides eligible high school students grades 9-12, the opportunity to participate in internships with their professionals at several locations on all levels. Annually between 80 to 90 percent of the participants continue onto postsecondary institutions to pursue careers in medicine and /or research or are offered jobs within their internship sites.
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High School Health Careers Program (HSHCP)
| This program aims to increase the under-represented and disadvantaged students entering into the health and science professions in the Commonwealth. The program targets Massachusetts High School sophomores and juniors from underrepresented and/or economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. The program aims to improve participants' academic skills in science/biology, mathematics, English and Information technology while making them aware of careers in medicine and research through internships.
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Summer Enrichment Program (SEP)
| This program prepares participants for standardized exams such as the MCAT and GRE and coaches participant in preparing professional school applications such as the AMCAS and medical school interviews. The program targets college sophomores and juniors from underrepresented and/or economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and aims to improve participants academic, critical thinking, note taking, test taking and time management skills. Scheduled recruitment visits at all University of Massachusetts undergraduate campuses and other Massachusetts colleges and universities.
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NIH Summer Research Fellowship Program
| This program provides minority undergraduate, graduate students and medical students exposure to opportunities in biomedical research. The program is a non-credit, ten-week, structured research experience. The program consists of "hands-on" laboratory research experience with an investigator serving as a mentor, role model and advisor. It is designed to provide participants with in-depth exposure to the actual practice of scientific research in the hopes that the excitement, challenge and creativity of the enterprise will convince them to consider biomedical research in the as a viable career choice.
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Regional Science Resource Center Laboratory
| This program aims to increase achievement and interest in science for students, grades 7-12 through inquiry-based, hands on science learning.
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Regional Science Resource Center MST Curriculum Loaning Library
| This program targets K-12 teachers, administrators, parents and scientists, and after school organizations by providing NSF funded standards-based curricular instructional materials to preview, pilot and borrow. Districts will have high quality instructional materials in math and science.
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Science To Go
| This program provides grades K-6 teachers and their students with NSF funded science standards-based curricular instructional materials. Districts will have high quality replacement of consumable materials at a low cost. Materials are packaged by the teacher saving him/her much valuable prep time.
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Women in Science Conference
| This program introduces Worcester Middle School girls and their teachers to careers in science done by local women by actually involving the girls in an active, hands-on component of their job. It aims to increase interest and knowledge about the possibilities of science careers
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After school 21st Century Schools Program
| This program aligns after school inquiry-based science activities with the Massachusetts Science Curriculum Framework Learning standards to provide additional science content for 5th and 6th grade students in Worcester.
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SCOPE (Science Can Open Pathways for Exploration)
| This program provides Inquiry-based, hands on science learning infused into the Girls, Inc. programming. The program aims to increase achievement and interest in science for Middle School girls, grades 6-9.
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Summer Content Institutes
| This program provides math content courses for in-service teachers of mathematics, grades 5-12. It aims to improve content knowledge and pedagogical strategies
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Blueprints for Science
| This program targets grades 7-12 science teachers with a course to infuse inquiry into the science curriculum. It aims to increase achievement for students, more inquiry in the classroom, increased independent, student research and increased engagement with science content.
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Content-specific Regional Networks (AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, Central MA Math Collaborative and Curriculum Coordinator Network)
| This program provides a structure for regional role-alike positions to communicate (face to face and electronically) about common issues, problems and best practices. The program targets high school teachers and district administrators and aims to encourage mentoring among professionals, sharing of ideas, materials, and solutions to common problems.
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District/school specific consulting
| This program targets K-12 math and science teachers and administrators with the goal of sharing expertise and providing additional revenue stream for support of the Resource Center.
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Educational Outreach to High Schools and Middle Schools
| Middle and high school educational outreach coordinated through the IGP, Worcester Pipeline, and Regional Science Resource Center. IGP coordinated activities include development of in-class presentations and experiments in collaboration with high school teachers, and one-on-one and small group mentoring of high school science students. The Worcester Pipeline Collaborative coordinates a range of programs with the Worcester Public Schools dedicated to educating and challenging minority and/or economically disadvantaged students for success in the health care and science professions. The Regional Science Resource Center at the Worcester Foundation Campus provides lab space, technical support, and materials for area teachers interested in implementing more inquire-based, student-center science in all classrooms.
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The MassAHEC Network
| The MassAHEC Network at the UMass Medical School is comprised of six community based centers located across the Commonwealth, dedicated to health sciences/ health care workforce development initiatives that address minority health issues and associated disparities. Through K-12 academic enrichment programs during school,after school and summers, students from economically disadvantaged and culturally diverse backgrounds participate in academic preparation, career exploration activities and meaningful community-based learning opportunities that enhance their understanding of science, math and technology.
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