“We don’t get to do this in class,” says a fourth-grader from Olney, MD, quoted in a Dec. 8, 2010 Gazette.net article.
The student is a participant in the after-school program Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST), founded by LearnServe alum Jessica Yang of Richard Montgomery High School. Through KAST, Montgomery County high school students offer free hands-on science programming to 300 elementary schools across the county.
Jessica was awarded an initial $1,000 seed grant through LearnServe International and Youth Venture to get KAST off the ground. She won second place and was awarded $500 in a George Washington University business pitch competition.
KAST held its first Kids Are Scientists Too science fair on December 21, 2010 at Rockwell Elementary School.
To read the full December 8, 2010 Gazette.Net article, click here.