Community Connections:

From Cradle to Grave

Public ServiceTutoring New Branches Academy, Central High School, City Middle High School, West Catholic High

School, All Saints Academy, Saint Anthony of Padua School

Demonstrations 2nd Congregational Preschool, New Branches Academy, Ottawa Montessori, St. Alphonsus School, All Saints Academy, Stepping Stones Montessori, C.A. Frost , Sparta High School, City High School

Presentations Cub Scouts, Rotary Club, Blythefield Hills Baptist Church, Rosewood Church, Grand Rapids Amateur Astronomical Association

Science at the Grand Rapids Public Museum

Chemistry at the Lakes Mall in Muskegon

Godwin Heights Middle School

We have a special relationship with 6th grade students from Godwin Heights. They have cometo campus to do experiments, and this year, to celebrate our centennial, we made them 100 experiment kits , so that they could do experiments at their school.

STEM Girl Genius Event

GRCC Forensics Camp

A Canine ConnectionDeputy Dale Dekorte and Ritzey from the Kent County Sheriff’ s Office at the Forensics Camp. GRCC also mixes up the training aid concoction of accelerants for Ritzey.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Academy

Cook Library Center

City Middle School Science Club

Calvin College ACE Glow Camp

Other Science Camps and Clubs

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Field Trips with Community PartnersGRCC/GVSUGeology trip to Indiana

Grand Astronomy Rapids at the Amateur VeenAstronomical ObservatoryAssociation

Research at GRCC and Beyond• Hope College/GRCC NSF Research Program

Most of these students have gone on to earn B.S. degrees in science, and many are now in graduate school, optometry school, pharmacy school, or medical school. Several are working as scientists in industry.

• GVSU/GRCC NSF Research ProgramThese students will soon earn B.S. degrees at GVSU. One will be entering an M.D./Ph.D. program and the other will be entering medical school.

• Van Andel Summer Intern Research Program These students have gone on to earn B.S. degrees in science at Hope and WMU, and are now in medical school.

Many of these students have presented their work at national conferences and several students are co-authors on papers published in peer-reviewed science journals.

Interactions with Local Companies, Institutes, and Government Agencies

- Organizing and participating in the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education at GVSU

- Visiting Perrigo, the Van Andel Institute, and the Grand Rapids Waste Water Treatment Plant

- Hosting guest speakers from Corium, Gentex, Pfizer, and Amway

For example, next semester in PH 125, a scientist from Amway will talk about how the concepts of simple harmonic oscillation and damped harmonic motion are used in skin aging measurement, and how cosmetic products are developed to fight skin aging.

Donations from Pfizer

Gas Chromatograph

High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph

Rotary Evaporators

Karl Fischer Titrator

Donation from Hope College - NMR

Donation from the City of Grand Rapids Waste Water Treatment Plant

Analytical Balance

National Science Foundation GrantJennifer Batten and Bernard Liburdwrote a grant worth $166,000 to obtaina GC-MS for student use.

Some Things You Might Not Have KnownElaine Kampmueller wrote The Michigan Environmental Literacy Plan as part of the No Child Left Inside Act of 2013.

Tom Neils helped screen and select questions for the Science section ofthe MEAP exams and wrote questions

for the Science section of the MME.

Jennifer Batten, Bill Faber and Tom Neils have all served as grant reviewers for the National Science Foundation.

Joe Hesse has been working to help keep Big Brower Lake clean and weed-free by acting as an advisor to the lake improvement association.

Bill Faber serves on the Board of Directors at Blandford Nature Center.

Will Millar will be a guest speaker at the Chaffee Planetarium at the Public Museum next semester when the planetarium will be screening 'Cosmos - a Spacetime Odyssey‘.

How Does This all Happen?

• Professional Organizations• Children• Family and Friends• A Willingness to Get Involved• A Belief that Our Actions Do Matter

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