A select few will also shadow our more experienced BMCC student researchers.” C-STEP opportunities throughout the year “They’ll return to BMCC on Fridays in the fall and spring to participate in biology, robotics and chemistry projects, as well as Math and SAT prep workshops. “We’re providing hands-on, STEM-based activities for them over the summer,” says Bach. These workshops prepare them for research projects they will join in the fall and spring, and are contextualized around applied math, microbiology, nutrition, engineering/robotics and environmental science.Īt the same time, students from about 50 New York City high schools, many of which do not have science labs, will come to BMCC for the STEP component of the project. In Summer 2015, BMCC is providing five workshops through C-STEP in which students undergo intensive training in research methodologies, data analysis and the fundamentals of hypothesis-driven work. “We also increased the STEP budget by 40 percent STEP is the high-school version of C-STEP, in which we bring in students from New York City high schools, to engage in research at BMCC.” Preparing during the summer, for fall and spring research “We took a chance and quadrupled the C-STEP budget in our proposal,” said Helene Bach, BMCC’s Director of Research. The Science and Technology Entry Program, or STEP, which serves high school students, will receive $289,000 per year. Over a period of five years, BMCC’s Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program, or C-STEP, which serves BMCC college students, will receive about $260,000 per year. Thanks to new funding from the New York State Department of Education ( NYSED), hundreds of students will be able to engage in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) research projects at Borough of Manhattan Community College of The City University of New York (BMCC/CUNY).
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