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Susan Flowers (left), assistant director of the Institute for School Partnership (ISP), releases confetti amid the revelry of a smoke machine as the ISP celebrated science and the opening of its new MySci Resource Center Feb. 18.
Refurbished with the help of a $2.2 million grant from the Monsanto Fund, the MySci Resource Center houses educational classrooms, meeting rooms and a warehouse of educational science materials. It becomes the nerve center of the ISP, WUSTL’s signature effort to strategically improve teaching and learning within the K-12 education community in the St. Louis region.
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Victoria May, executive director of the ISP, introduces a panel of dignitaries on hand for the opening, including (from left) Henry S. Webber, Angela Kinlaw, Deborah Patterson and Jan Holloway.
Wrighton donned goggles and a lab coat to open the festivities and gave an entertaining and enlightening science demonstration. The WUSTL chancellor is a chemist by training and demonstrated to students from KIPP Inspire Academy and other area schools the magic of chemistry and how fun science can be. A video is below.
Students also were able to take part in hands-on science experiments; tour the MySci Investigation Station from its new base of operations; and explore the ISP's Star Lab, a portable "mini-planetarium" that, on this day, projected the night sky.
More than 250 friends and stakeholders of the ISP, including area teachers, students and community partners as well as Washington University Faculty Fellows, attended the opening.
To learn more about the ISP and its community outreach efforts, visit schoolpartnership.wustl.edu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XguHWwunbr8&feature=share&list=UUZInJskrOiCsvw2fFnrpqXAHighlights from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton's science demonstration at the Feb. 18 opening of the Institute for School Partnership MySci Resource Center. Video by Tom Malkowicz/WUSTL Video Services.