Working in collaboration with the local Kanawha Valley Section the student group has worked to fulfill the objectives of two water quality grants.  These grants involve the education in the community.  The first grant was the Community Interaction Grant which focused on the education of elementary school students on the importance of chemical properties of water that make life and society possible.  The second is based on the local section Innovative Program Grant (IPG).  This grant purchased equipment needed to work with the public on water purity.  The probes allowed for training on how contaminants are monitored and allowed for basic data collection.<br/>     The Community Interaction Grant funded the creation of an elementary school science box with basic supplies to do water experiments in the classroom.  These boxes are a important tool to help teachers conduct basic experiments with students in the classroom without the need for an extensive science background.  All of the background information, procedures, and reagents were included in these boxes.  Teachers across the region were given these boxes to reach more students with these boxes to reach more students with science then we as a small chapter could ever hope to educate.<br/>     The LSAC grant provided the section with the ability to purchase a water quality testing kit that allowed us to reach out to numerous high schools giving them the ability to collect information on the water that surrounds them and their schools.  This information was then collected, compiled, and shared with the schools to better the teaching concepts in the classroom.<br/>

Water quality education

249th National Meeting (2015)

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