To coincide with National Chemistry Week, the Delaware-ACS Section hosts a Family Science Adventure program at the Independence School, Newark DE. A goal of this program is to build awareness of chemistry at the local level. Every year Wesley College STEM students participate in this event and they conduct a series of "fun" hands-on experiments that explain various chemical principles. This year, we surveyed the participants (parents & kids) before and after the event, to demonstrate any measureable increase in student interest after program participation.<br/><br/>This poster details all hands-on experiments that were conducted and provides unambiguous data from our study on students’ attitude towards science and science topics.<br/><br/>The Wesley College Directed Research Program is supported with grants from the Delaware INBRE program with an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences - NIGMS (8 P20 GM103446-14) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); a National Science Foundation (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Delaware-EPSCoR) grant EPS-0814251; an NSF S-STEM grant 1355554; and the State of Delaware. A number of the Wesley STEM participants are Cannon Scholars (NSF-DUE 1355554). Matt Love is a graduate student in the MAT program. Ariel & Alora are undergraduates in the biological chemistry program.

Discerning student interest in science activities

249th National Meeting (2015)

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