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认识杰克。
Jack is a 20 year old American from the town of Crownsville, Maryland.
当他13岁时，一个亲密的家庭朋友，就像杰克的叔叔，从胰腺癌中去世。
This experience was devastating for Jack, and when he discovered that 85% of all pancreatic cancer patients are diagnosed late like his uncle, he decided to take action.
杰克上网了解了更多，以了解为什么这么多人患有这种癌症，并弄清楚如何预防它。
He used his two best online friends, Google and Wikipedia, to learn more about how pancreatic cancer is found and diagnosed. He discovered that it is found by looking at the bloodstream, and finding a miniscule difference in one protein out of countless proteins – much like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Jack spent several hundred hours researching and trying to understand what role these proteins played in pancreatic cancer, and finally, he found his protein.
The protein was called mesothelin, and it’s found in extraordinarily high levels in the bloodstream of patients with pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer.
His next step was to apply this discovery and create a way to detect the protein in potential cancer patients. It had to be convenient and inexpensive, and of course accurate, to enable early detection of pancreatic cancer to save lives.
科学的突破
Fast forward through a lot of time and hard work, and Jack managed to develop a first-version test for early detection of pancreatic cancer that was super cheap, effective and non-invasive. Great!
There was only one problem – or “a blemish on his amazing plan” as he called it.
他无法真正完善，并通过在厨房柜台进行癌症研究来最终确定测试（至少他的妈妈对这个想法不太满意）。
但是，作为解决问题的问题，他发现他所需要的只是进入真正的实验室。因此，他输入了预算，材料清单，时间表和程序，并将其发送给约200名教授。然后他向后倾斜，等待他们回答他的友善和有用的资源。
但事实并非如此。
In fact, only one out of those 200 contacts replied that he would like to help Jack out.
幸运的是,一个人took Jack into his lab, and fast-forward seven more months, Jack had developed a test for pancreatic cancer that made it 168 times faster, over 26,000 times less expensive, and over 400 times more sensitive than our current standard for pancreatic cancer detection.
The one thing that almost kept Jack from making a scientific breakthrough
Believe it or not, this is a true story. This story ended quite happily. But it could very easily not have.
There was一thing that almost kept Jack from making this scientific breakthrough. And that was the fact that he did not have access to a real laboratory because he was too young and inexperienced to be allowed in to one.
我们在科学方面经常遇到这个问题，这是鸡肉和鸡蛋问题：如果您没有经验，无法进入实验室，但是need至haveaccess to a lab togetexperience – then where does that leave you? Certainly not with a lot of scientific breakthroughs.
这是我们在Labster试图解决的问题。
增加对实验室的访问
“Imagine if we could bring Ivy League, billion dollar, virtual laboratories to students just like Jack, all around the world. It may just be that one thing that empowers and inspires a whole new generation of bright, young scientists to innovate and change the world.”Those were the words Labster co-founderMichael Bodekaer不久前在Tedxcern讲话.
我们正在努力使梦想每天成为现实。
在Labster，我们一直在努力使我们的实验室模拟为学生提供了一段时间，并与成长中的团队和成长华体会赞助ac米兰proven support throughout the field of education internationally，我们越来越接近我们的目标。
使教育民主化的使命
民主化教育是为了增加接受教育的机会，并为尽可能多的人提供机会。
Just as Mark Zuckerberg is working on the goal of “making virtual reality accessible to everyone”, we are working on the goal of making science education accessible to everyone.
With Labster’s simulations, all users need is a computer and an internet connection to access STEM curricula. This short list of requirements enables a whole lot of people to learn about STEM subjects.
民主化的教育还旨在使学生有能力学习任何东西，无论何时何地都适合他们。
That means putting the student’s education in their own hands. That’s not to say you leave them on their own. But you give them the opportunity to learn at their own pace, and to do it as a result of their own intrinsic motivation. It’s about providing support and facilitating their development in order to motivate them to learn.
换句话说，这是关于赋予他们发挥自己的潜力的能力。
How online virtual learning is helping to democratize education
There are three ways in particular that online virtual labs are helping democratize education
- 它们适合一个现代，技术上越来越多的世界，那里有无穷无尽的技术可以做什么，而且要利用很多东西。
- They provide a personalized and customized approach to learning, taking individual learning styles and speeds into account.
- They empower students and teachers by inspiring them to think differently about when, where and how education takes place – ultimately revolutionizing the way we think about education.
WatchJack Andraka’s TED talk below to get his full story on how he created the test for pancreatic cancer or watch迈克尔·博德克（Michael Bodekaer）’s talk to learn more about how Labster hopes to revolutionize education.
