Help RESET reach more children with an on-line donation on Dec. 3 at the link below – during RESET’s noon to 1 pm Power Hour or at any time that day! https://www.givelikealocal.org/team/reset  

It helps to remind students that scientists and engineers can make higher salaries than lower paid professions. Do you think your elementary school students are starting to think of their long-term financial and lifestyle prospects?  The information below may be of use to supplement ReSET volunteers’ discussions of what sparked their interest in science and…

This article lost me at: “This is consistent with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, which remains the best means of describing gravity’s behavior. According to this theory, gravity is not a force, but a consequence of the curvature of spacetime caused by the uneven distribution of mass/energy.”  If not a force, what is gravity?  Can…

RESET Volunteer David McInnis describes his session on microscopes: This week…  microscopes! ReSET has a handful of well-made student microscopes, called “My First Lab Microscope Ultimate” (MFL-85)  by NYscopes.com and look similar to this:  They are rechargeable, though the batteries on half of them have died (I don’t know how old these are and suspect they…

RESET Volunteer Susan Flashman suggests that RESET record a STEM focused video like the one below.  I can write the lyrics, if others have the voices. http://www.coolestone.com/media/13804/Sacla-Stage-a-Surprise-Opera-in-a-School-Lunch-Hall/#.VpVYSjbCF0g

RESET CEO and Classroom Volunteer Harold Sharlin: I teach science to two, three and four year olds at the NSF Child Development Center in Ballston, VA. Last Tuesday when I was working with my two year old day care children I learned something about teacher involvement. I had brought some small bar magnets for them…