Partners for Terrific Science

Science teaching should cultivate students natural curiosity about the world around them. To foster this curiosity, students initial contact with science should be an animated, hands-on experience, not an introduction to the dry equations that experienced practitioners use to manipulate science in the abstract. The Partners for Terrific Science program was designed with the belief that if pre-college students understand how chemistry and the chemical industry touch their daily lives, they will find chemistry more relevant, exciting, and interesting. 

Rick Fay ter, senior research director at Henkel Corporation, Emery Group, notes, "Observing the Partners for Terrific Science program, I was heartened by the teachers spirit of innovation, enthusiasm, and dedication. 

The Partners for Terrific Science program works to bring chemistry alive for classroom teachers. Only when the teachers are excited about chemistry can the transfer "science excitement to their students. Partners can work for groups of all sizes. All that is needed for a core program is one interested industry willing to work with one receptive school district. For more information about the Partners for Terrific Science program, contact Mickey Sarquis, the program director. 

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