"..it's exciting to use what we've learned to both inspire students who love biology but hate physics...and provide them with a better feel for contemporary positions in the science job market..."

BEST Outreach Program

Better Educators of Science for Tomorrow (BEST) is a PSC outreach program that exposes teachers to modern molecular biology concepts and evaluates inclusion of computational biology and bioinformatics into high school curriculum.

In addition, BEST prepares teachers to refocus their teaching strategies towards exposing and encouraging students to become aware of emerging and exciting biomedical careers.

Beginning as a pilot program in May 2007, BEST exposes high school teachers to modern molecular biology concepts and to jointly explore the creation of a curriculum incorporating inquiry based bioinformatics and inquiry based teaching in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Attendees who have completed our workshops have called BEST a "great collaboration of teachers across subjects".

For more information on BEST, contact Pallavi Ishwad (pishwad@psc.edu).

Funding for PSC's BEST Outreach program provided by Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of the Buhl Foundation.