Zavala Young Scientists: a model for `adoption´ of an elementary school class

The University of Texas at Austin´s NSF-sponsored Science and Technology Center for Synthesis, Growth, and Analysis of Electronic Materials has initiated an outreach program to elementary school children. Tools, science kits, lab notebooks, and other supplies have been purchased for the classroom. A proposal is being developed that would initiate an accelerated science program with the long-term goal of involving three teachers who rotate through grades four, five and six, retaining, to the greatest extent possible, the same group of children. Their rigorous preparation will help meet goals of improving minority acceptance rates into the junior and senior high science magnet schools