Education & Training
One education program offered by Seattle BioMed to engage and mobilize the next generation of scientists is BioQuest Academy, a "biomedical boot camp" for 11th graders with over 60 hours (two weeks) of intensive instruction through a global health curriculum. BioQuest Academy is a STEM pipeline, and sometimes even "hooks" students into science by accident. In fact, according to PLOS ONE's 2010 journal article, "97% of alumni (2005-2008) are attending postsecondary schools throughout North America; eight graduates have already published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and/or presented their scientific data at national and international meetings, and 26 have been retained by Seattle BioMed researchers as compensated technicians and interns."
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