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4 Local Outreach Efforts
4 Local Outreach Efforts
Pages 28-33
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She said that "you don't have outreach efforts with their local communities to put a "face on chemistry." Catherine Conrad, St. Mary's University, talked to dumb it down, but you have to be able to explain exactly what it is." about a growing area of scientific outreach called "citizen sci She highlighted a resource her local section created for ence," which goes beyond fun demos and outreach activities teachers, a listserve (Yahoo group)
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NASHVILLE ACS LOCAL SECTION "Chemistry Ambassador" Ruth Woodall, shown in Figure 4-3, discussed the outreach efforts of the ACS Nashville Local Section. She also briefly spoke about her involvement with the Tennessee Scholars Program.7 Woodall demonstrated an amusing example of how she connects to young people.
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a whole day of chemistry at the conference. Conrad said that scientists pay attention to citizen science In addition to the section activities, through the legisla because of the prospects for extensive data collection, but only tive part of the American Chemical Society, the local sec "if we can guarantee that someone who is a volunteer can tions in the state have formed the Tennessee Government gather credible data using good protocols, they are trained, they Affairs Committee.
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Conrad noted that the equip ment available is the same equipment used by the provincial government's water quality monitoring people. In addition to loaning out the equipment, the network proFIGURE 4-6 A dedicated citizen scientist collects water samples in vides training to volunteers to use the devices.
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She encourages people to monitoring water quality each year, such as for World Water Monitoring Day.11 In the United States alone, she said, more understand the purpose of citizen science to ensure they are not monitoring simply for the sake of monitoring. Volunteers than half a million people are involved in monitoring rivers can lose interest in the work, particularly if they are not well in their local areas.
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Rogers added that his impression is that there is a lot of She said she shifted from being an "effluvial morphologist" interest from parents, "Even sometimes if the students aren't to doing the community-based monitoring work. interested, the parents -- and I think more today than they might have been in years past -- there is a genuine interest there." Woodall said she thinks that "one of the reasons that parents Science Cheerleader are becoming more interested now is because they are seeing Workshop participant Neil Gussman mentioned the citizen that they are going to have to push their children into careers science effort Science Cheerleader.12 He said the effort was now even more than ever before.
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