The Young Scientist Program
2009-2010 Year in Review
Teaching Teams
- 50 outings for 09-10
- Demonstrations/visits with 21 different schools and 13 teacher classrooms
- Approximately 150 volunteers participated in teaching teams
- We logged approximately 60 hours of classroom time this year
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Fieldtrips
YSP hosted 11 fieldtrips to WUSM.
1. Women in Science Day (Nov. 4 th
Carnahan, Soldan
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Alton High School
Marion High School - Marion, IL
Parkway North High School, Fall 09
CorJesu HS – Fall 09
CorJesu HS – Spring 10
Vatterott College
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LaSalle MS – Gifted students
CVPA – In conjunction with Changing the Face of Medicine Exhibit
Metro – In conjunction with Changing the Face of Medicine Exhibit
Career Academy - In conjunction with Changing the Face of Medicine Exhibit
Fieldtrips consisted of: GSC tours, Neuro imaging Lab Tours, Anatomy Lab Tours, Goldfarb Nursing school, Histology core, Teaching Team demonstrations, & presentations on careers in science
Summer Focus
- As of 2009, we have had 206 summer focus students.
- We received 32 City applications and 44 County applications – Total 76
- We interviewed 31 students and selected 16 students.
- The 2010 Summer Focus students represent 11 different schools. Schools include: Parkway Central,
Parkway West, Gateway, Metro, Soldan, CVPA, Crossroads, McCluer North, Granite City, McKinley,
Cleveland.
- Two 09 students returning to work in labs this summer.
- One 07 SF student has been accepted to WU BiomedRap program
Summary of 09 students:
Not everyone has responded, so we will highlight those that we know about:
Mary Chivetta – U. of Notre Dame. Was Bright Flight
Joey Jackson – Lindenwood University
DeShaun King – Duke U
Kalaan Travis – Morehouse
Aalia Rahman – St. Louis University
Celine St. Pierre – U. of Chicago
Rajiv Tarigopula – Harvard. Siemens Westinghouse Semi Finalist (2 of 4 from MO)
Megan Wood – U. of Arkansas. Siemens Westinghouse Semi Finalist (2 of 4 from MO)
Some other past SF participant info:
Kaitlin Samocha – 2005 SF. Worked in Dr. Cheverud’s lab. The work from the YSP summer and that following summer that gave her authorship on a paper that came out in 2009
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19306044). Working in the Cheverud lab those two summers also placed me in my lab at U Chicago. My PI here (Dr. Abraham Palmer) was collaborating with Jim. Attending Harvard Medical School's Biological and Biomedical
Sciences Ph.D. program this fall with the goal of obtaining a Ph.D. in genetics.
Bracken King – 1999 SF. 09 MIT graduate with Ph.D. in Biological Engineering.

TRP
Mission is to promote the teaching of science in new and effective ways by providing teachers in the
St. Louis public schools with the opportunity to work with fellow teachers and in collaboration with a
Washington University research partner to translate laboratory research into active learning for students.
For 2010, we have 3 teacher/research pairs.
Teachers represent: Career Academy, Beaumont, Busch AAA MS
Nano Medical School
In collaboration with Cynthia Wichelman, MD, Director of the Mini-Medical School, the Nano-Medical
School invites the families and peers of Summer Scholars to attend and evening event to hear about cutting edge research at Washington University. This event provided dinner and a speaker for those attending.
Dec 09 – Dr. Cynthia Wichelman – Heart Attack and the ER
March 10 – Dr. Arnold Bullock – Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
Both were well attended and the feedback was very positive. We have several topics suggested for future events.
Local and National Outreach
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YSP Volunteer and Neuroscience team head, Ariel Lyons-Warren attended the Society for
Neuroscience Meeting in Chicago and presented the YSP poster.
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Dr. Woolsey and Neuro Team Volunteers, Ariel Lyons Warren, Eric Yttri, Dan O’Brien, and Christa
Baker attended the 10 Spring Brain Conference in Tucson, AZ and then provided neuro team demonstrations at Cholla High School (12 classes) on March 17. We even garnered a bit of media attention. Print and video.
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Family Med Program with the St. Louis Science Center - Due to the popularity of the Fall 09
Family Med Program, YSP once again teamed up with the St. Louis Science Center to offer 4 hands-on medical training sessions for children, 5th grade and older and their families during Fall
08. Participants of the Family Med Program learned about human anatomy & physiology as well as disease through demonstrations provided by the YSP Anatomy team. We will be offering the sessions in Fall 2010.