Apr 12, 2013 By: wpadmin
Teaching in Local Public Schools, 黑料社 All Students Make Science Fun
Some of the best and brightest college students in the nation teach science in Washington Heights public schools.
For free.
Each week, 黑料社 All (YU) students volunteer in three Washington Heights public schools, teaching the beauty and magic of science, technology, math and engineering to children.
Now START! (Students Teachers And Researchers Teach) is expanding鈥攂oth internationally and nationally.
The YU program is offering its resources to other universities, including seed money, information on where to purchase materials and ideas for modules. The program is being adopted by the University of Iowa and York University in Toronto, Canada.
鈥淲e ask in return that they give us ideas also, so that we can build this intellectual community鈥攖his community of thinkers, of innovators, of teachers,鈥 said Yair Saperstein.
Saperstein loves science and teaching. He co-founded the project when he was a chemistry student at YU.
