Rich Repplier says (in response to post below): August 10, 2015 at 8:44 pm I read Marjee Chmiel’s post “When Science Isn’t Fun.” My response is that what she’s talking about is fine for a dedicated college student. But in RESET, we aren’t dealing with dedicated college students. We’re dealing with 10-year-olds who are fairly…

From RESET Volunteer David McInnis: This week’s lesson was about condensation, the atmosphere, and PV=nRT (without the equation). I started listing the 3 states of matter (yeah, yeah, there’s really 4, let it go) on the board.  I got as far as solid before students started calling out, “liquid”, “gas”.   I was impressed.  So I asked them for…

This week Sarah Kehoe wrote to ReSET: “My father … recently retired from a phenomenal government  career as an aerospace engineer. I am nominating him for this volunteer opportunity as I know he will love it and be excellent at it. He mentored me in math/science and I now have my PhD in Molecular Cell Biology…

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I always learn new things and get more inspiration from ReSET Panels of Volunteers and Educators, and the thought-provoking follow-up discussions. Before the new school year starts, it is well worth your time check out the video of the June 21 panel (with volunteers Peter Mehrevari, Juan Valentin, Ed Rock and ReSET Board member John…

  Volunteers Rich Repplier, Oscar Wiygul and Ann Williams joined me on Friday, Oct. 2 at an event for tenth grade STEM Academy students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria. There were about 15 STEM professionals at the event who exposed the students to a variety of career options. RESET and T.C. Williams Science…