July 24, 2019
In its third year of implementation,the Alamance Community College (ACC) has lead the Medical School Camp for middle school boys. ACC President Gatewood says he has always been concerned with the skills gap, education gap, poverty gap, and belief gap minority boys have faced. "There are a lot of African-American students who do not believe they belong in a medical school. For that matter, they don’t believe they belong in dental school or in college," said Gatewood, who is African American. A major part of this summer’s three-week medical school summer camp is a one-week visit to the UNC Chapel Hill medical and dental schools, where the kids will meet professionals who look just like them. They also use a mixed curriculum developed by Carolina Biological Supply Company of Burlington and Smithsonian Science and Technology Concepts Middle School (STCMS) to engage the boys in hands-on minds-on STEM learning.
Photo: Madeline Gray / For WUNC
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