What is the Student Oriented Academic Research (SOAR) program?
In 2002-2003, a new educational program, called Student Oriented Academic Research (SOAR) was implemented in Jim Hill High School by Ms. Susan Bender under the direction of the then Jim Hill Principal, Dr. Earl Watkins. The SOAR program engages mainstream students with an interest in science in a two-year course of academic study and development of a research project that will be completed at that school site. An offshoot of the Base Pair program and developed under the auspices of a supplemental K-12 Higher Education Partnership (KHEP) grant from the National Science Foundation, SOAR is intended to serve as a vehicle for expansion of Base Pair-initiated concepts of inquiry-based and laboratory-oriented science learning. SOAR is poised to enroll close to 130 students for the 2005-2006 academic year. Expansion of the SOAR program began 2004-2005 academic year with the addition of Bailey Magnet High School and as of the academic year 2005-2006 has grown to include five high schools with
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