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What is BOOST?
- BOOST Goals
- Programs Offered
- Why is BOOST Needed?
- Why Durham?
- Why 5th and 6th Grades?
- Duke's Role
- Program Evaluation

BOOST Programs
- For Educators
- For Students
- For Medical School Students, Grad Students & Fellows
- For Potential Partners

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What's New?
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Frequently Asked Questions

 

BOOST Programs

BOOST offers a range of programs for different audiences, all designed to excite young students about the field of science and to inspire many of them to pursue careers in medicine and related fields.

  • Fifth and Sixth Grade Teachers, Click Here
    - Summer Science Immersion workshop
    - Science Summit quarterly teacher training
    - Classroom support for implementing inquiry-based science learning
    - Science Scope forum on topics in biomedical science
    - Middle School Simulation
  • Fifth and Sixth Grade Students, Click Here
    - Special science activities in your classroom!
    - A mentor to help you do your own research project!
    - Science Adventure field trips!
    - A weeklong summer science program!
    - A taste of middle school for fifth graders!
Funding provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute