With funding from the Math-Science Partnership Program at the National Science Foundation (EHR #0634296), 2007 - 2010, the Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project supported the development of 70 geneticist-teacher partnerships throughout the United States and Canada and demonstrated how professional societies can support K-12 outreach. With the help of colleagues at the National Science Resources Center (NSRC), ASHG built a national framework for university-high school collaborations in genetics education and supported university faculty engaged in K-12 outreach in their efforts to achieve tenure and promotion.

Highlights of GENA

• Lessons developed by GENA teams and further adapted by ASHG are now available in our lesson plan database.

   

• Since the GENA project ended, ASHG has continued to provide professional development workshops for geneticists through the Building Excellence in Genetics Instruction (BEGIn) workshops.

   

• What is education outreach? What do geneticists who participate in education outreach do?

   

  Find out here.

   

• GENA is recognized by the Center for Excellence in Education as a model for excellence in science education.

Learn more about GENA:

• Resources

• GENA Overview and Participant Lists

• The Impact of GENA

• Background: Why GENA?

• GENA Committees and Advisory Meetings

• Scientists in the Classroom