Royal City High School 2008

RCHS Students

On April 24, one of our Molecular Medicine certificate students, Amber Caracol, joined a group of five other members of the UW Chapter of Students for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), to meet with 32 students at Royal City High School (RCHS) in Eastern Washington. Students at RCHS are predominantly Latino (approximately 80%) and have the potential to be first-generation college graduates. Amber and the others talked with the students about going to college, and went over the UW application process with them. After lunch, the students participated in different hands-on science activities, which included strawberry DNA isolation, a pH lab, a "what is cancer?" activity and a mammalian dive physiology lab. In the evening the students accompanied their parents to a bilingual information session regarding science and pursuing a college education. After learning how to isolate DNA in the afternoon, the students taught their parents how to do the isolation in the evening. Amber reports: "It was fantastic to see the students’ confidence and their parents’ pride at watching their children perform science."

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Royal City High School 2008

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