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civilization and ( 2 ) people who know and appreciate the methods and possibilities of At the request of Science Service, the science. This youth science movement, in ACS Division of Chemical Education has which Science Service, Washington, D . C , appointed Hubert N. Alyea as a member has given cooperation from the national υϊ the Educational Advisory Committee level, is of major importance. Failure to to Science Service on Science Clubs of provide opportunities throughout the America. This is another activity sponsored world for youth activity in science will be by others in which w e are glad to have a a criminal handicap against the future. part because it contributes to achievement State science academies, colleges, of the aims of this organization. teacher associations, museums, news The chemists of tomorrow are among papers, and other organizations are coop the high school boys and girls of today. erating. In 3 2 of the 48 states, there are In our endeavor to guide the best qualified state-wide movements as a part oi the into chemical careers, the soundest effect Science Clubs of America. In some there can be obtained by allowing the young are regional organizations as well. student»» to discover for themselves the The work of science clubs is culminated fascination and the importance of science. in science fairs and congresses held as part This is the role of science clubs. of the science club movement in about 60 Inspiring a chemical interest in those localities. Science fairs attracting up to now in our secondary' schools is one phase 1500 entries are held annually. News of the renaissance of science which appears papers and educational institutions co to be a virtual science youth movement. operate in sending winners to the National It i s based upon the discovery by youth Science Fair, the fourth of which will be that science is fun. It is a great quest for held in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1953. knowing the world about us. The National Science Talent Search is Chemists can give their enthusiastic now in its twelfth year. This is" a nation support to efforts winch make it possible wide selection of the high school seniors for the students in our high schools to who are most likely to be creative scien capture the hard-won intellectual evolu tists of the future. The selections are made tion of the scientific world as quickly and through a vigorous competition based effectively as possible. This must be done upon results of science aptitude examina through the natural urge to explore and tions, recommendations, evaluations, and find out for themselves. One of the prime science project reports. In all, 3300 boys dangers is the didactic approach of un and girls have been picked for honors, inspired routine teaching that rubs the and the National Science Talent Search bloom off the budding interest of young has been extended into the states through students, misleads them into concluding the utilization of the entries by state that the course known as chemistry is not committees for further honors. real, interesting, and useful and not more The Science Talent Search has pioneered worth taking than some "snap" course. the recognition by the educational and The active and operating approach to scientific world that those with talent can uifiue, including chemistry, for youth is be picked successfully at the high school the science club movement stimulated and level. The Executive Secretary has beer* implemented at the national level by privileged annually to meet the finalists, Science Clubs of America, an activity of l i e always is impressed by their knowl Science Service. There are over a third of edge and their enthusiasm. a million boys and girls in Ϊ 5,000 science In this science youth activity, which is tilths in almost every city, county, and becoming more intense year by year, pro town of America and many places abroad. fessional chemist* and others interested Predominantly these science clubs stim in this development of our scientific and ulate projects or actual experimentation in technologic manpower can be of great aid. ^eiene*?. The young scientist goes at his Most effective will be actual participation experiments with enthusiasm. Working at in the work of the clubs as the need on his hobby, he often (maybe w e should the part of young scientists for contact my usually ) learns more than in formal with practicing chemists arises. The work elans. This is the essence of the science of industrial organizations and sections of club method, the experimental educational the ACS m giving information about what method· the learn-by ~working*on-whatchemistry is and what it offers as a career you'want-to method. takes on added importance when there is Early experience una acquaintanceship a growing and active group of students with the science* from the age at which who have participated in chemical experi they enter Junior high school are provided mentation and w h o look forward to taking by the science clubs, science fain, and their places in the future in the world of other mwh project activities, integrated, chemistry. but r**it formalized in class work» The movement h a j two objectives, to •^Sîkè^ *^r^*^e^ supply ( I ) talented research workers to «olve the continuing problems of our
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