The Tennessee STEM (Science , Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Innovation Network has this year established the NWTN STEM Hub at the University of Tennessee at Martin-UTM. The Hub chose the UTM SMACS to cosponsor the High School Science Bowl and two of the chapter members as STEM student ambassadors. The Hub will provide the funds for participating teachers with stipends, bus travel, a mini-workshop on dye-sensitized solar cells –DSSC. The SMACS chapter has been pursing the green chemistry project on DSSC for over two years and discovered that chemicals like indigo, riboflavin, etc. can be used as sensitizers. The teachers will observe the SMACS perform the demonstrations while the faculty make the power-point presentation. The Science Bowl has been the SMACS projects for over thirty years; recently the public high schools were not participating in the competitions because of the lack of funds that now the STEM Hub will provide. The SMACS student ambassadors will help the Hub with four other STEM outreach projects.<br/>.

SMACS network with Northwest Tennessee STEM hub to help with science education

251st National Meeting (2016)

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