The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on education globally, forcing the teaching community to think outside the box and create innovative educational plans to benefit students at home. Here, we narrate how the undergraduate, laboratory-based Summer Internship Program of our CONSERVE Center of Excellence, which focuses heavily on engaging women and underrepresented minorities in STEM programming, took a turn from an in-person research experience to a fully virtual one. We share our challenges and how we overcame them. Additionally, we provide a description of our virtual internship professional development curriculum, as well as the creative research projects that our seven interns were able to achieve in an 8-week virtual internship, including projects focused on the microbiological water quality of recycled irrigation water; social media promotion, enhancement and marketing of online educational resources focused on water, microbial contamination, and food crop irrigation; decision support systems for using recycled water in agricultural settings; and the effectiveness of zero-valent iron sand filtration in improving agricultural water quality, to name a few. Upon evaluating our internship program, we observed that more than 80% of our interns were either very satisfied or satisfied with the overall virtual internship experience. Through this experience, both the educators and the interns learned that although a virtual laboratory internship cannot completely replace in-person learning, it can still result in a very meaningful educational experience.

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通过虚拟的本科生研究培训“蓬勃发展”：CONSERVE暑期实习计划的成功重新设计。

COVID-19大流行对全球的教育产生了巨大的影响，迫使教学界必须跳出思路，制定创新的教育计划，以使家中的学生受益。在这里，我们介绍了我们CONSERVE卓越中心的以实验室为基础的夏季暑期实习计划，该计划着重于让女性和代表性不足的少数族裔参与STEM计划，如何从亲身研究经验转变为完全虚拟的研究经验。我们分享我们的挑战以及如何克服挑战。此外，我们还介绍了虚拟实习专业发展课程，以及我们的七名实习生在为期8周的虚拟实习中能够完成的创造性研究项目，其中包括专注于再生灌溉水微生物水质的项目；社交媒体的推广，增强和营销，重点是水，微生物污染和粮食作物灌溉的在线教育资源；在农业环境中使用循环水的决策支持系统；零价铁砂过滤在改善农业水质方面的有效性，仅举几例。在评估我们的实习计划后，我们发现超过80％的实习生对整体虚拟实习经验感到非常满意或满意。通过这种经验，教育者和实习生都了解到，尽管虚拟实验室实习不能完全替代面对面的学习，但仍然可以带来非常有意义的教育体验。和粮食作物灌溉；在农业环境中使用循环水的决策支持系统；零价铁砂过滤在改善农业水质方面的有效性，仅举几例。在评估我们的实习计划后，我们发现超过80％的实习生对整体虚拟实习经验感到非常满意或满意。通过这种经验，教育者和实习生都了解到，尽管虚拟实验室实习不能完全替代亲自学习，但仍然可以带来非常有意义的教育体验。和粮食作物灌溉；在农业环境中使用循环水的决策支持系统；零价铁砂过滤在改善农业水质方面的有效性，仅举几例。在评估我们的实习计划后，我们发现超过80％的实习生对整体虚拟实习经验感到非常满意或满意。通过这种经验，教育者和实习生都了解到，尽管虚拟实验室实习不能完全替代亲自学习，但仍然可以带来非常有意义的教育体验。在评估我们的实习计划后，我们发现超过80％的实习生对整体虚拟实习经验感到非常满意或满意。通过这种经验，教育者和实习生都了解到，尽管虚拟实验室实习不能完全替代亲自学习，但仍然可以带来非常有意义的教育体验。在评估我们的实习计划后，我们发现超过80％的实习生对整体虚拟实习经验感到非常满意或满意。通过这种经验，教育者和实习生都了解到，尽管虚拟实验室实习不能完全替代亲自学习，但仍然可以带来非常有意义的教育体验。