SRI gets $925K federal grant for nano classes

Oct. 19, 2004 – The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million to SRI International to teach nanoscale science and technology to high school students. The $925,000 grant to the Menlo Park, Calif.-nonprofit technology research institute will go toward developing a curriculum called NanoSense. It will include classroom-tested activities to help students understand the principles, applications and implications of nanoscale science and technology, according to a news release.

The program will be tested in five high schools before rolling it out nationally. NanoSense builds on ChemSense, an NSF-funded SRI program to study students’ understanding of chemistry and develop software and curriculum to help students investigate chemical systems and express their ideas in animated chemical notation.

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