Real Science Opportunities for Students: Career Awareness and Internships - continuation

The purpose of the study is to investigate how science is learned in school and in an authentic setting, how the internship experience will unfold in the biology lab, and what is the high school students’ science related career aspiration before and after the lab activity. What could be breakthroughs and challenges when students cross the boundaries of school science and authentic science? What experience do the high school teachers, students and scientists have during the internship in the university lab? These are all the issues we want to investigate as part of node one of the CRYSTAL project.

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