Local youth attend science outreach week
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BOZEMAN – Several Lake County teens and adults spent a week on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman as part of BioScience Montana, an immersive health science experience for high school-aged 4-H members.
BioScience Montana is a year-long project funded by the National Institutes of Health as a Science Education Partnership Award. The project’s goal is to help Montana teens prepare for careers and studies in the health sciences and biomedical research.
St. Ignatius youth that participated included Landar Fangsrud, 15; Daniel Hunt, 15; and Philip Vaughan, 13. Their adult leader is Amy Vaughn of St. Ignatius.
The students spent the week in MSU’s labs and classrooms learning about neuroscience, infectious diseases and metabolomics, a module that shows students how nutrition and health are connected. Upon returning to St. Ignatius, the students will continue participating in experiments and science challenges. They will also use interactive technologies to communicate with one another, to connect with MSU student mentors, and to present what they have learned to family, schools and the statewide 4-H community. The project concludes in Spring 2015.
BioScience Montana combines aspects of MSU’s teaching, research and service missions and was developed by MSU Extended University, the 4-H Center for Youth Development, and the MSU Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience.
The project is online at http://eu.montana.edu/bioscience/
