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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
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Building the Interest of High School Students for Science- A PACT Ambassador Program To Investigate Soap Manufacturing and Industrial Chemistry
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Matthew Lynch
The Proctor & Gamble Company, Miami Valley Laboratories, P.O. Box 538707, Cincinnati, OH 45253-8707
Nicholas Geary
The Procter & Gamble Company, Rusham Park, Whitehall Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9NW, UK
Karen Hagaman
Finneytown Senior High School, 8916 Fontainebleau Terrace, Finneytown, OH 45231
Anne Munson and Mark Sabo
Center for Chemical Education, Miami University-Middletown, Middletown, OH 45042
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February 1999
Vol. 76 No. 2
p. 191
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The Ambassador Program of the Partnership for the Advancement of Chemical Technology (PACT) brings industrial applications of technology into high schools to enhance the student's perception of the chemical industry and industrial careers in chemistry. This article details a two-year effort (1996 and 1997) in which ambassadors from the Procter and Gamble Company and Miami University-Middletown worked with Finneytown High School students. The program entailed following a typical product development cycle for fabricating commercially viable soap products. It exposed students to as many aspects of science and science careers as possible, from traditional research and development to product research. The objective of the article is to inform the reader about the program with sufficient detail to encourage similar efforts. Thus, it includes a discussion of the initiation, organization, and curriculum of the program and also provides a critique as an evaluation of its effectiveness.
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Lynch, Matthew; Geary, Nicholas; Hagaman, Karen; Munson, Anne; Sabo, Mark. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 191.
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Demonstrations; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Collaborative / Cooperative Learning; Consumer Chemistry; Industrial Chemistry; Minorities in Chemistry; Outreach
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June 15, 1999
June 22, 2005
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