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FOR MORE INFORMATION... SCIENCE PROGRAMS FOR KIDS AND TEENS (The Scientist, Vol:5, #4, pg.20, February 18, 1991) (Copyright, The Scientist, Inc.) ---------- * For a listing of more than 600 science programs for elementary school through high school students throughout the U.S., send $3 to: Directory of Student Science Training Programs Science Service 1719 N St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 785-2255 Thacher School Summer Science Program 5025 Thacher Rd. Ojai, Calif. 93023 (805) 646-4377 Contact: Roger Klausler Scotia-Glenville Traveling Children's Museum 102 N. Ballston Ave. Scotia, N.Y. 12302 (518) 346-1764 Contact: Joan Gould EARTHWATCH 680 Mount Auburn St. Box 403 Watertown, Mass. 02272 (617) 926-8200 Contact: Kara Bettigole Science Scholars Award Program National Kidney Foundation 30 E. 33rd St. New York, N.Y. 10016 (800) 622-9010 Contact: Cynthia Wolkovich * SEED and U.S. National ~~Chemistry Olympiad Education Division American Chemical Society 1155 16th St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 872-6169 Contact: Denise Creech Hands-On-Science 4910 Macon Rd. Rockville, Md. 20852 (301) 881-1142 Contact: Phyllis Katz Cornell University Summer College USPS 132-860 B12 Ives Hall, Box 126 Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3901 (607) 255-3976 Contact: Abby H. Eller Cornell Environmental Science Interns Program Cornell University Fernow Hall Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3001 (607) 255-2114 Contact: Marianne Krasny Summer Veterinary Research Apprentice Program for Minority Students College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University C117 Schurman Hall Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-6401 (607) 253-3709 Contact: Shenetta Selden ADDITIONAL SUMMER SCIENCE PROGRAMS For a listing of more than 600 science programs for elementary school through high school students throughout the United States, send $3 to: Directory of Student Science Training Programs Science Service 1719 N St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 785-2255 For Green Thumbs and Growing Minds The New York Botanical Garden Bronx, N.Y. 10458-5126 (212) 220-8982 "Garden crafters," ages 5 to 16, plan and plant a garden. Program is offered twice weekly in July and August. "Garden sprouts," ages 3 to 5, dig, plant, weed, water, and watch plants grow. The weekly program also features cooking and crafts. Cost: Garden crafters $55, garden sprouts $36. Scholarships available. Bennington July Program Bennington College Bennington, Vt. 05201 (802) 442-5401 Contact: Sherri Alper, director Each year, the program provides intensive, but noncompetitive, study of an area of science not offered in high school. Students, ages 15 to 17, work closely with faculty in small groups. The 1991 offering is "Genetics and the New Biotechnology." Cost: $2,250 Partners in Science Liberty Science Center 75 Montgomery St. Jersey City, N.J. 07302 (201) 451-0006 Contact: Dana Levine For eight weeks, gifted high school juniors and seniors participate in research and seminars and receive career and college counseling at university, industry, and government facilities in New Jersey. Participants present a research paper at Rutgers University. Cost: $500 (participant's high school pays part) Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth (CTY) CTY Summer Programs 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, Md. 21218 (301) 338-8427 Contact: Liz Albert An intensive, fast-paced lab and lecture course, five hours a day, for seventh-graders. Applicants take SATs to qualify for the program, and must have scores equal to or better than the national high school senior average. Students have a choice of 10 science areas. Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University, the program is held at four sites: Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; and University of the Redlands, Redlands, Calif. Cost: $1,480 Adirondack Life Science Experience Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 12866 (518) 584-5000 Contact: Raymond Giguere, Chemistry Department Intense study of the goals of modern biology, with a focus on how to become a scientist, for students in seventh to ninth grades. Emphasis on biology, biochemistry, and medicine. Includes field trips in the Adirondacks; study of veterinary medicine at Saratoga racetrack; and projects focusing on computers, biotech equipment, entomology, horticulture, and agriculture. Cost: $540 for commuters, $690 for residential students High School Student Research Apprenticeship Argonne National Laboratory Argonne Division of Educational Programs Pre-College Programs Argonne, Ill. 60439-4845 (708) 972-3373 Contact: Robert W. Springer, director High school sophomores and juniors learn the scientific method by using sophisticated equipment to solve research problems. Five-week and one-week programs are offered, as well as a two-week Department of Energy "research and enrichment experience" in superconductivity and materials science. Cost: Call for information NASA High School Apprentice Research Program National Aeronautics and Space Administration Educational Affairs Division 400 Maryland Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20546 (202) 453-1110 Contact: Robert Brown, director At each of nine field centers across the U.S., 20 highly qualified minority students in grades 10 to 12 work with a NASA scientist or engineer for eight weeks. Applicants must live within commuting distance to any participating field center. Cost: Program is subsidized; participants receive a stipend

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