Science Education

Student Science Enrichment Program

Lenoir-Rhyne College
Carolina Institute for the Multicultural Approach to Science (CIMAS)

Program

Quickfacts

Carolina Institute for the Multicultural Approach to Science (CIMAS) is a year-round program for 60 high school students designed to increase the number of ethnic minority students entering college degree programs in science and mathematics and ultimately pursuing careers in these disciplines. CIMAS offers summer academies and fall workshops for select groups of ethnic minority students entering grades 10 and 11. These programs are constructed in order to: expose talented and interested minority students and their families to a wide range of hands-on science activities emphasizing the excitement of problem-solving and inquiry based exploration; to educate CIMAS scholars and their families on the rich development of science and mathematics in ethnic cultures, thus building identity among ethnic peoples with these disciplines; and to provide role models for the CIMAS scholars by allowing them to interact with scientists and peers form other states, who are themselves from different ethnic cultures.

Program dates: summer program with fall follow-up

Open to: ethnic minorities throughout North Carolina entering grades 10-11

Format: three-week residential summer program followed by fall workshops

Contacts:
Wayne B. Powell, Ph.D.
President
Lenoir-Rhyne College
Box 7163
Hickory, NC 28603

Phone: 828/328-7334
Fax: 828/327-9859

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Carolina Institute for the Multicultural Approach to Science (CIMAS)