This week, 12 Wisconsin middle school students and 12 students from the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta participated in Generation Acceleration, a camp in which the students got their (latex-gloved) hands wet working on a variety of stem cell activities in the lab.
“We want to educate and train the next generation of scientists,” said Rupa Shevde, the director of outreach for the Morgridge Institute for Research, the nonprofit biomedical research institute affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison that ran the camp. “Studies have shown when you engage students with science at a younger age, they are more likely to explore a variety of careers later.”