LabRatz Featured in the Trib!
Posted on February 16th, 2008Read about us in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review newspaper:
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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.
