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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
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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.