grant proposal

Creating Reactions with Positive Products: Lending a Trojan Hand to the Community’s Future Chemists


Abstract

I request $25,000 from Dr. Larry Singer, head of the USC Chemistry Department, to aid Franklin High School’s Chemistry Advanced Placement program. This grant will be utilized to engage the class’s juniors and seniors in a laboratory experience as a supplement to the material they are being taught in class. This will serve to stimulate their interest and to further their understanding of the subject. Four USC graduate students, including myself, will be employed as teaching assistants in this weekly after school program. This will serve to Franklin High School to enhance the potential scientists’ educational experience. It will be beneficial to USC because it will create new job openings for graduate students and this program will also stir up interest in the high school teenagers to want to further their education at USC as a chemis...