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Creating Reactions with Positive Products: Lending a Trojan Hand to the Community’s Future Chemists Abstract I request $25,000 from Dr. Larry Singer, head of the USC Chemistry Department, to aid Franklin High School’s Chemistry Advanced Placement program. This grant will be utilized to engage the class’s juniors and seniors in a laboratory experience as a supplement to the material they are being taught in class. This will serve to stimulate their interest and to further their understanding of the subject. Four USC graduate students, including myself, will be employed as teaching assistants in this weekly after school program. This will serve to Franklin High School to enhance the potential scientists’ educational experience. It will be beneficial to USC because it will create new job openings for graduate students and this program will also stir up interest in the high school teenagers to want to further their education at USC as a chemistry student. Problem Only 15 of the 49 high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District offer a Chemistry AP class. Franklin High School is one of these15 high schools. Of these 15, only four have accompanying laboratories. Franklin High School is not one of those fortunate four. Chemistry is a hands-on science, and to fully understand the subject, a student needs to perform and understand laboratory experiments. There is not enough money nor the proper facilities at Franklin High School to accommodate to such requests. This presents a problem because a lack of such assets on the part of the school district leads to an incomplete educational comprehension of chemistry on the part of the students.
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