Ten of Ms. South’s CP Chemistry students are participating this year in the “Rocks Beneath Our Toes” (RoBOT) Program with Professor Ethan Baxter of Boston University. This educational outreach program engages high school students in a hands-on study of the rocks and minerals and is funded by the National Science Foundation. Students work with Boston University undergraduates to analyze the mineralogy and unravel the unique story that each rock holds about its geologic past. The goal is to provide high school students a unique window into modern scientific methods of geochemistry and mineralogy and to unlock for them the exciting information about Earth history that all rocks preserve. The program started in early October with a visit to the High School and a talk by Professor Baxter. Students recently completed the field research portion of the program, visiting and taking samples from four sites in Weston.
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