Announcement on the selection of non-profits for The Catalogue of Philanthropy, including RESET: The Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington is proud to announce that ReSET has been selected to be featured in the 2012-13 Catalogue. A panel of over 100 expert reviewers from area foundations, corporate giving programs, and peer non-profit organizations evaluated 220 applications;…

ReSET Volunteer Bob Hauptman reports on his program this term: I want to tell you of my wonderful experience teaching science to kindergarden children.  First, you should know that it would not have been possible without the participation of two great people – Nsombi Brown, the Georgian Forest science teacher, and Harold Williams, the planetarium…

Aerospace Engineer Stephen Leete  reports on his first classroom session as a ReSET volunteer at a school near his workplace, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: I started my volunteer activity at the nearby Catherine T. Reed Elementary School today. I spent about an hour in the classroom of Mr. Pitts and his 26 fifth…

Now That’s Using Your Cerebral Cortex! ReSET volunteers are passionate about science, and they’ll go to great lengths to communicate that passion to their students. These scientists-in-the-classroom employ some unique and truly innovative methods of engaging children in their STEM field of expertise: Philip Posner, who has a Ph.D. in Medical Physiology, shows his students…

Wayne’e report on his fifth grade program: Late in February I finished my 12th one-hour session at Key Elementary School, working with all the 5th grade students (~95) on Longitudinal Waves and Patterns of Sound Waves. The highlight was students seeing and in some cases making Chladni Patterns on square aluminum plates by stroking them…

ReSET CEO and Founder Harold Sharlin reports:             Today I visited a class of four year olds at CentroNia day care center in Mt. Pleasant in DC.   CentroNia is bilingual.  I had spent 4 one-hour sessions with the day care’s 8 teachers.  We worked on a simple series circuit with a…

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…

David McInnis Third Grade Report: This week I was on my own; two classes, about 1 hour each.  That’s about 35 3rd grade Tasmanian devils swirling around with unlimited energy in a small classroom vessel.   The lesson is what I assisted with last week in the 4th grade classes, sinking and floating, aka density. I…

Report on the US Patent and Trade Office Volunteer peter Mehrevari: It is most insightful to see how children at that age think and process out solutions to a problem. Sometimes they come at a problem from a completely different angle than a person with a more learned mindset. Pete Mehravari, who serves as a…

David has blogged a number of times on his RESET experience.  Here’s the first one: So Tuesday I emailed someone at ReSET asking to talk with them about what they do and if they’d need someone like myself.  The director responded asking if I’d like to meet at a school on Wednesday at noon.  I was nervous…