Welcome to everyone who heard about us at Friday’s Science Olympiad presentation at the Grand Concourse! We are currently planning several Olympiads in the Pittsburgh Area and have room in our Spring schedule to accomodate a few more. Give us a call or contact us via Email to discuss scheduling, program content and other specifics.
As our Fall programs begin to wrap up, we are hard at work on the Winter 2009 after-school science club schedule. In addition, we will soon have information regarding our Spring Science Olympiad schedule. Check back soon for updates!
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Read about us in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review newspaper:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/search/s_545550.html
Lab Ratz inject excitement into learning about science By Allison M. Heinrichs TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, January 3, 2008
A clerical error changed Talman Charters Jr.’s career path — and possibly the goals of many children. Charters is president of Lab Ratz Science Club, a hands-on science program that visits schools, scout troops, birthday parties and summer camps to present scientific concepts in a way that encourages children to make their own discoveries. Founded in 2005, the program caught on quickly and already is booking up well into 2008.
“My aspiration was to go to medical school,” said Charters, 26, of Hampton. “But there was a clerical error and my application was never reviewed. … It wasn’t until June when I found out. I had been calling around to different schools and they didn’t even know who I was.”
As an undergraduate, Charters had worked part time with an organization that ran science programs at area schools. Though that group went out of business, Charters believed the idea was a good one.
