naa a22 4500 510780717 CHVBK 20180411083246.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11422-012-9431-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11422-012-9431-1 Cabral Félix de Sousa Isabela Núcleo de Tecnologia Educacional para a Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil aut Outcomes of a scientific nonformal educational initiative for youth in Rio de Janeiro [Elektronische Daten] [Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa] The aim of this research is to understand how former students view their professional and academic paths after taking part in a specific scientific nonformal educational initiative during high school. This program is called Vocational Scientific Program (Provoc) and is carried out in the Oswald Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This institution has for over 100years played a pioneer role in public health research in the country. This institution has many graduate programs and a high school dedicated to training students in health issues. Provoc was originated in this school and has been part of it for the last 25years. Since its beginning, this program has been characterized by a significant predominance of women which relates to the female predominance of professionals in this institution working in the traditional areas of Fiocruz, which are Biology, Medicine, Public Health, Humanities and Social Sciences. This study was qualitative in nature and involved observations and 34 individual interviews, which followed a semi structured questionnaire, designed for this research. The results indicate that the majority of participants see their program participation experiences as an asset in their academic and professional careers. Many describe feeling empowered by presenting their work in seminars and a few by writing a research article. Many former students also testified to the establishment of social long lasting relationships in the research work environment. And finally, the interviews reveal a few moments and the factors involved in the selection of a profession by youth. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 High school students nationallicence Science education nationallicence Nonformal education nationallicence Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/1(2013-03-01), 193-213 1871-1502 8:1<193 2013 8 11422 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9431-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9431-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cabral Félix de Sousa Isabela Núcleo de Tecnologia Educacional para a Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/1(2013-03-01), 193-213 1871-1502 8:1<193 2013 8 11422 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer