Posted on February 28th, 2010
Hello Everyone. We are still adding after-school programs to the schedule and will continue to do so througout the spring. Check out the ‘Schedules and Info’ section of this site for details. In addition, we have a few special events coming up on March 20th. At 2pm we will be presenting at the USC Boyce Community Center in Upper St. Clair and then later in the evening, at 7pm we will be presenting at Wildwood Country Club, in Allison Park.
Also, a reminder that if your school was closed because of the snow and a Lab Ratz meeting was missed, it will be made up by extending the session by one week (If more than one meeting was missed, we will extend the session accordingly). As always, if you have questions, please give us a call at 412.965.3024 or use the ‘Contact’ section of this site.
Posted on January 21st, 2010
It is official! We have announced the details regarding the Lab Ratz Science Club Summer Camp 2010. Visit the ‘Summer Camp’ section of this site for details.
Posted on February 12th, 2009
Posted on February 16th, 2008
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.
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