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Project Exploration is a not-for-profit educational program whose goal is to "change the face of science" by encouraging interest in science among students—especially girls and minorities—who traditionally have not found effective career routes into scientific disciplines. Its primary method is to create intensive collaborative relationships between students and working field researchers through structured programs involving the University of Chicago and other institutions. In January 2010, it received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. The organization, founded in 1999, is based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. ==Activities== Project Exploration currently serves nearly 1,000 students. It began as an after-school and summer program when Gabrielle Lyon, a teacher at Fiske Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago, decided that students underrepresented in the sciences, primarily girls and minorities, should be given opportunities to collaborate with actual scientists and participate in real-life scientific research. Students design research projects and test them in the field, or work summers at museums demonstrating science to young children. *Junior Paleontologists This program provides an intensive immersion into the field of paleontology for twelve 12- to 17-year-old Chicago Public School minority students. The annual program selects students who are curious and open minded, regardless of academic achievement. For two weeks, the students study geology, anatomy, and paleontology at the University of Chicago followed by work alongside scientists in Montana, South Dakota, or Wyoming, on fossil-rich terrain. Project Exploration maintains a relationship with them until they graduate from high school.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Junior Paleontologists )〕 In Hot Springs, South Dakota, students worked under the supervision of paleontologist Larry Agenbroad, Professor Emeritus of Northern Arizona University, for a week of fieldwork at the Mammoth Site in 2009.〔 *Sisters4Science Sisters4Science is a year-round after-school and field program that combines science exploration with leadership development for approximately 100 minority middle school girls. Girls participate in hands-on science activities led by women scientists as well as participate in science-based field trips.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sisters4Science )〕 *Girls Health and Science Day Project Exploration organizes a one-day symposium with workshops on the topics of sexuality and tolerance, healthy relationships, self-worth, the female body, and self-defense for female students across Chicago in grades 7-10.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Girls Health and Science Day )〕 * Dinosaur Giants The Dinosaur Giants program trains high school students to serve as volunteer interpreters, facilitators or educators at science museums and exhibitions, where they lead tours, answer questions, and run interactive programs. Participants are recruited from Chicago Public Schools and is particularly active at the Field Museum of Natural History.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dinosaur Giants )〕 * All Girls Expedition The All Girls Expedition is an intensive two-week classroom and field work experience for twenty girls . It includes intensive classroom instruction in geology, biology, evaluation, and field skills followed by one week working in the field alongside scientists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All Girls Expedition )〕 A recent expedition was to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, to conduct fieldwork on the water chemistry of geysers, track coyotes and explore a cave with Project Exploration and Yellowstone researchers.〔 * The Science Teacher Field Institute The Science Teacher Field Institute is an annual three-week professional development program for Chicago Public School teachers which includes both classroom and field experience with scientists in the disciplines of geology, paleontology, and astronomy. All costs are covered by private donations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Science Teacher Field Institute )〕 This program includes field work at eastern Montana's Lost-in-Time Ranch under supervision of professional paleontologists from the University of Chicago and Project co-founder Gabrielle Lyon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Project Exploration」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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