Summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers

Education and Outreach

The teachers performed an experiment that they could repeat in their science classes: growing crystals of aluminum potassium sulfate (“alum”).

Dan Neumann, National Institute of Standards and Technology, DMR 09447722

On July 23, 2012, twenty middle school science teachers from Maryland, Florida, South Carolina, New York, and elsewhere enjoyed a day of science at the NCNR. The CHRNS-supported Disk Chopper Spectrometer (DCS) is visible in the background.

During their tour the teachers were shown the spin echo spectrometer, which is used for biological membrane studies, and several other instruments.