WELCOME stands for WEllness, Learning, and Career Orientation Mentorship. It is an educational outreach program for urban middle and high school students that highlights opportunities in STEM and healthcare careers.
Who: We collaborate with Colorado UpLift to reach middle and high school students from Aurora and Denver Public Schools. Many come from disadvantaged or underrepresented backgrounds with limited access to STEM activities, resources, and opportunities.
Goal: To teach students about the brain and expose them to opportunities in STEM and healthcare careers.
How to get involved: If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Erika Alor (erika.alor@cuanschutz.edu), Program Manager or Dr. Maureen Stabio (maureen.stabio@cuanschutz.edu), Program Director.
For more information, check out these two articles from CUAnchutz Today featuring our middle school field trips and high school mental health workshops.
Goal: Provide high school students the opportunity to explore different modalities of learning human anatomy
Participants: High school students
Role of Plastinates: To interact and visualize the organs discussed in their Human Body Systems course
Goal: Expose high school students to health professions careers and to healthy lifestyles
Participants: High school students from across the entire state of Colorado.
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Goal: Engage students in different ways of learning about the human body.
Participants: Middle and high school students
Role of Plastinates: To provide an overview of the different roles of the organs alongside wet specimens.
Goal: Expose students to different career opportunities.
Participants: High school students
Role of Plastinates: To allow students to visualize and interact with the plastinated organs.
Goal: Support girls in their pursuit of STEM careers
Participants: Middle and high school students
Role of Plastinates: To provide students the opportunity to hold organs from various body systems.
Goal: A host of multiple programs on campus providing booths and program overviews to students
Participants: High school students and undergraduate students
Role of Plastinates: To showcase our program and to allow potential students to visualize and interact with real human tissue.
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