Labratz Science Club

Hello Everyone!  We are very happy to announce the launch of our Kitchen Chemistry! page.  Students that participate in the Lab Ratz Science Club know that five weeks passes very quickly.  And the weeks between sessions seem to drag on for ever.  But when they aren’t attending a Lab Ratz program, young scientists don’t stop being curious.  So we have created a resource for parents and children who want to continue exploring the sciences at home.  While the page is still under construction, we have already started posting experiment ideas to it and will continue to do so.  We are also taking requests - If you have an experiment that you just can’t seem to get the results you expect from or a science project that is due and you need an idea right away.  Send us an email via the “Contact” link above and we will start investigating the topic and post suggestions or the procedure right away.
We are also encouraging students and their families to try our suggested experiments, or to come up with one of their own,  and post the procedure and results to our Facebook page so that other Lab Ratz can give it a try and verify the results.  We will be adding guidelines and advice for how to “Publish” discoveries on Facebook the way professional scientists do in primary literature.
Eventually we will have procedures and suggestions for experiments that relate to each topic explored during the Lab Ratz Science Club after school science program, in addition to many of the ideas submitted by our readers available on the page.  Topics are being added daily so check back often.  Happy Experimenting!

Now you can follow the Lab Ratz Science Club on Facebook!  Find out what experiments the Lab Ratz will be doing with your Children each day, meet your child’s Lab Ratz instructor, check out photos and videos from recent events and submit a design for our 2011 T-Shirt Design Contest!  Plus, each week our Facebook page will feature a new experiment to try at home and suggestions for backyard stargazing.  Click HERE to get started!

Follow this link to read about the Lab Ratz Science Club in the Pine Creek Journal!

http://www.yournorthhills.com/northhillsnews/article/labratz-encouraged-explore-world-around-them

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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