JANE: LIFE SCIENCES IS ONE OF SOUTH CAROLINA’S FASTEST GROWING INDUSTRIES, AND SCBIISO EXCITING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS ABOUT THE INDUSTRY THROUGH GAMIFYING. THEY’VE PARTNERED WITH RAD LAB IN ...

Ninth grade biology students construct the parts of a cell using clay. A solid science background makes middle-school science teachers more effective, say experts. Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a ...

There’s no better way for students to learn than with hands-on experience. But, for many years, because of the nature of the work, fields like the life sciences felt inaccessible to young people.