This is a proposal request funding to continue the dissemination of the Health Science and Technology Academy (HSTA) model of biomedical and behavioral science to four counties in West Virginia high schools’ students who are financially disadvantaged or are minorities. The HSTA programming is currently active in 20 counties. The long-term objectives of HSTA are to increase the number of underrepresented students who complete post-secondary education in the health sciences such as medicine, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy. Consequently the outcome is to increase the number of health care providers from the program’s targeted population that practice in medically under-served West Virginia rural communities. Methods to achieve the long-term goals include the exposure of students to challenging extended science teachers at their high schools during the year. Students will be required to disseminate their extracurricular extended investigations at the state level by presentations at the Annual HSTA Symposium using technological tools such as Internet and Power Point. The students will also be guided to use students created Teacher Facilitated Club-Based Web Sites to further disseminate globally the academic enrichment materials and inquiry-based science project ideas currently being created within the organization.