Place:  Paris Landing State Park HOTEL (Conference Room A)
Date:  Saturday, November 6, 2004

Directions to Paris Landing: Click HERE

8:00 AM:  Registration and Refreshments

8:30 AM:  Opening Remarks, Dr.  Ricky Cox, Past-Chair of KLS-ACS

8:45 AM:  College/University Chemistry Curricula

Bethel College:  Dr. Jane Hardin

Lambuth University:  Dr. David Hawkes

Murray State University:  Dr. Ricky Cox

University of Tennessee at Martin: Dr. Philip Davis

West Kentucky Community and Technical College:  Mr. Larry Bigham

10:15 AM:  Break

10:30 AM:  Roundtable discussion involving high school chemistry teachers, university faculty members and representatives from the chemical industry.

11:15 AM:  Dr. Maurice Smith, R & D Manager at Alco Chemical, will present a talk entitled "Building a Strong Chemistry Olympiad Tradition"

12:00 PM:  Lunch Buffet

12:45 PM:  Keynote Speech by Dr. Melvin Joesten

Dr. Melvin Joesten, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University, will present a talk entitled "Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science (VS)²."

Speaker information and abstract is at the end of this page.

1:30 PM:  Closing Remarks, Dr. Charles Baldwin, Chair of KLS-ACS

Dr. Melvin Joesten, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University
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Presentation:  Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science (VSVS)

Abstract:

Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science (VSVS) is starting its eleventh year with a record number of volunteers.  Over 440 Vanderbilt student volunteers represent all classes from freshmen through graduate, and come from six schools – Arts and Science, Engineering, Blair School of Music, Peabody School of Education, Graduate School, and Medical School.   The goals for members of VSVS are to help teachers enhance the science curriculum with inquiry-based activities, provide the student volunteers with an opportunity to explain science to school children, help college students recognize their responsibilities for community service and the importance of volunteer service in schools, and provide role models for school children.  VSVS members volunteer about 15 hours during the semester and are assigned to a team of three or four.  Before going out to a fourth, fifth, or sixth grade classroom at one of eleven Nashville public schools or one of seventeen after-school programs, the teams receive training on the five VSVS kits they will use. During the past ten years, VSVS members have provided hands-on, inquiry-based science activities for over 60,000 middle school students in Nashville.  The VSVS web site, www.vanderbilt.edu/vsvs, includes copies of over fifty VSVS lessons.  A brief discussion of VSVS will be followed by demonstrations illustrating the science content of some of the VSVS lessons.