INCUBATOR SCIENTIST PROGRAM
HISTORY
The Incubator Scientists Program (ISP) was conceived by Dr. Edward Haynie and piloted in the St. Louis Public School System in 1988, at William H. Beaumont High School, an inner city non-integrated school in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1990, funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the St. Louis Regional Science and Technology Career Access Center (RCAC) at the University of Missouri St. Louis financially supported the Incubator Scientists Program as one of its major components. The ISP later moved its operations and funding supported by NSF to the St. Louis Public School in 2000-2003. The ISP begins it operation in 2005-present at Missouri Baptist University
and funded by the Monsanto Fund.
MISSION
The mission of the Incubator Scientist Program is to identify African American students, expand knowledge, and enhance opportunities for success in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
PROGRAM FOCUS
The primary focus is nurturing, motivating, encouraging and challenging African American students an underrepresented group in science to prepare for science and mathematics-based careers.
MOTTO
If it is to be, it is to be by me.
LOGO
The Bumblebee
The bumblebee is symbolic of the program's purpose — historically striving for excellence in science and mathematics. It is believed that the work done to promote excellence in science and mathematics will encourage and challenge students to embrace the connective bond between past, present, and future achievements in mathematics and science. According to the law of aerodynamics, the bumblebee's large body and short wing span should prohibit his ability to fly. However, the bumblebee defies the law of aerodynamics and flies anyway.
Like the bumblebee, in spite of the odds against him, the incubator scientist students' are successful in the goal to succeed in science, mathematics, engineering and technology just as the bumblebee is successful in it goal to fly.
COLORS
Black and Yellow
The students of the Incubator Scientists Program adopted the colors of yellow and black, symbolic of the bumblebee.
Black represents understanding your culture, history and setting goals to be excellence in the achievement of science, mathematics and technology.
E-mail: bumblebee070@charter.net
