Funded by grant monies from the National Science Foundation, a coalition of partners including West Virginia State University, Kanawha County Schools, the Bayer Crop Science Corporation, and the West Virginia Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences are joining together to create COMmunities Educating Tomorrow’s Scientists (COMETS) project. COMETS will implement an earth and space science program with the focus of learning science as inquiry, targeting 300 low-income, under-represented, and minority students at 4 community centers in Charleston, WV, for inclusion in a NASA-centered informal science education program.

Science Companion has been chosen as the curriculum for the elementary tier of COMETS. We are honored to be a resource for such an innovative effort.

To read the abstract on the project, visit: www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0639686