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On
Wednesday, September 3, 2003, Professor Irving Herman and Ms.
Alison Biuso visited the George Washington High School campus
in NYC to launch a new Columbia MRSEC education outreach program
to help motivate and engage students by integrating materials
science and engineering demonstrations into the curriculum. Columbia
chemistry graduate students Ms. Jing Tang and Mr. Matt Sfeir presented
the demonstrations used in the MRSEC High School Visitation Program
(see accompanying photograph) to an audience of 35 New York City
high school and middle school science teachers (from the northern
Manhattan, Instructional Region 10). This audience also included
Mr. Carl Raab - advisor to the NYC Department of Education and
the Columbia MRSEC, and Ms. Julie Torres, Assistant Principal
for Science at High School for Media and Communications (at the
GWHS campus), who, along with Local Instructional Superintendent
of Region 10 Mr. Larry Block, will work with the MRSEC to develop
and implement this program. The goal is for the MRSEC and NYC
to adapt, modify, and develop materials science demonstrations
and to incorporate them into current New York City high school
and middle school chemistry, physics and earth science classes.
We want to help teachers teach to the NYC standards in these subjects
even more effectively by improving student engagement. This will
be a fully interactive effort between MRSEC faculty, students
and postdoctoral scientists, and NYC science teachers. It has
been named the “Ron McNair Curriculum Integration To Interactively
Engage Students (CITIES) Program”.
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