Using a Mobile Laboratory to Promote College-Level Outreach and Graduate Student Engagement in Precollege STEM Literacy 
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Patricia Irizarry-Barreto; Susan Coletta; Kathleen Scott

doi:10.1128/jmbe.v19i1.1438

Using a Mobile Laboratory to Promote College-Level Outreach and Graduate Student Engagement in Precollege STEM Literacy †

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Patricia Irizarry-Barreto^1,2,*, Susan Coletta^1,3, Kathleen Scott^1,4

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Affiliations: 1: Math and Science Learning Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; 2: Office of STEM Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; 3: Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854; 4: School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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Received 07 August 2017 Accepted 28 November 2017 Published 30 March 2018
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*Corresponding author. Mailing address: 618 Allison Road Room 314, Piscataway NJ 08854. Phone: 848-445-3442. E-mail: [email protected].

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This article presents a case study about the impact that our mobile laboratory, the Rutgers Science Explorer bus, has had on the professional development of graduate students and content enrichment for the middle school communities in the state of New Jersey.

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Appendix 1: Outbreak overview and connection to the NGSS, Appendix 2: Microbes study guide
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Received 07 August 2017 Accepted 28 November 2017 Published 30 March 2018
©2018 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology.
[open-access] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work.
† Supplemental materials available at http://asmscience.org/jmbe
*Corresponding author. Mailing address: 618 Allison Road Room 314, Piscataway NJ 08854. Phone: 848-445-3442. E-mail: [email protected].

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Citation: Irizarry-Barreto P, Coletta S, Scott K. 2018. Using a mobile laboratory to promote college-level outreach and graduate student engagement in precollege stem literacy † . J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ. 19(1): doi:10.1128/jmbe.v19i1.1438

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The Rutgers Science Explorer is a 40-foot-long Blue Bird bus that was custom designed to be a STEM laboratory. A) Exterior of the Rutgers Science Explorer. B) Interior of the Rutgers Science Explorer.

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Outbreak Unit: Materials developed to conduct a clinical microbiology exploration where students identify two different bacteria causing outbreaks in the human population in New Jersey. A) Microbes guide ( Appendix 2 ). B) A 6-well plate before test (clear) and after test (pink and yellow results are obtained by adding one drop of pH indicator). C) Paper simulation of API strip.

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Rutgers Science Explorer graduate students by STEM discipline (n = 80).

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Rutgers Science Explorer graduate students by STEM discipline (n = 80).

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Career pathways taken by graduate students who have participated in the Rutgers Science Explorer program (n = 80).

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Career pathways taken by graduate students who have participated in the Rutgers Science Explorer program (n = 80).

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