Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!amdahl!pyramid!prls!mips!vaso From: vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Be a Scientist by Mail for children Summary: Scientists + Engineers Message-ID: <25720@quacky.mips.COM> Date: 18 Aug 89 19:59:11 GMT References: <44473@bbn.COM> Reply-To: vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 16 In article <44473@bbn.COM> sbrand@sh.cs.net (Stephen Brand) writes: > >If you are interested in helping children discover what science is all about, >I'd like to invite you to sign up as a Scientist-By-Mail. >The program brings together children and scientists in a >pen pal program that focuses on the solving of 3 science challenge packets a >year. The subjects of the packets range from designing methods of waste >management in a space station to learning about the physics of ice cream. We >are looking for scientists who are interested in providing constructive and >supportive feedback to children who are trying to make sense of the world >around them. Sounds like you should be recruiting engineers in addition to scientists. Children (and most adults) don't know tthe difference between, or the relationship between, science and engineering.