More than 5,000 elementary through high school students in East Africa will soon have new science laboratory kits thanks to a recent American Physical Society award to Women Supporting Women in the Sciences (WS2).
WS2 is an international initiative launched in 2016 by graduate students and postdocs from the U.S. and Tanzania in support of women and outreach efforts to elementary and secondary-level female students. UCLA materials science and engineering graduate student Danielle Butts is a co-lead on the WS2 team, which is one of the three projects that received grants from the society’s 2020 Innovation Fund.
The $20,000 award will enable WS2 to assemble four international teams and design low-cost, science laboratory kits in 2021-2023 for more than 5,000 students in East Africa. Each team will design two physics or materials science-focused lab kits — one for primary school…
