This project focuses on new areas and technologies within the rapidly changing Biological Sciences. The mentoring program targets underrepresented youth and will serve 120 10th to 12th grade students over three years (three cohorts of 40 each), providing one year of preparatory courses, a summer institute for career exploration and lab orientation, and a second year of authentic research with an AMNH scientist mentor.

The Barcode of Life Initiative (BOLI) is an international biodiversity collaboration that creates a genetic encyclopedia of Earth's plants and animals using short DNA sequences that uniquely identify species groups. The goal of this strategies project is to interest students in STEM careers by engaging them in an international project to provide identification of biological species.

The Crime Scene Information Technology (CSIT) project directed by the New York Hall of Science (NYHOS) seeks to infuse middle school and high school science curriculum with authentic, inquiry based, forensic science investigations that incorporate IT applications and introduce educators and students from underserved communities to IT career opportunities. As a comprehensive project, the project directly serves 60 teachers and 300 students in grades six through twelve, 600 guidance counselors and 200 school personnel including school administrators.

This is a three-year project designed to build the capacity of high school teachers to provide physical computing (an emerging field in pre-college education) experiences for their students. Physical computing is a participatory activity in which the computer becomes aware of the human and produces environments or objects that express the technical, aesthetic, social or political vision of the human designer in ways that amuse, amaze or inform.

The program will serve up to 180 minority high school youth from the South Bronx in a project–based, design–centered program. The goals are to develop the participants' technological fluidity within the context of the local urban environment and to broaden the entry points to IT–related careers for these minority and low-income participants through exposure to IT applications in professional and creative settings (not mutually exclusive). This three–year program consists of a series of after school, semester–length modules and a summer program.

American Museum of Natural History ITEST High School Science Research Program (AMNH) is a Youth-based project that targets 120 urban high school youth (grades 9-11) in IT-based research in genetics and astrophysics, using the resources of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH, public), Rockefeller University (private) and other institutions in the five boroughs of New York City. The recruitment plan targets cohort groups of 40 students per year including females and minorities with the physically challenged students as a special target population.

Crossing Boundaries will provide middle and high school students with the knowledge, skills, motivation, and inspiration to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in addressing biodiversity conservation issues in regional and international contexts. The project will entail curriculum development, sustained teacher professional development, and opportunities for students to see scientific and environmental careers in action.