What is project SEED

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What is project SEED

• Nationwide educational program sponsored by the
  ACS designed to encourage socially disadvantaged
  H.S. students into careers in the chemical
  sciences
• Voluntary members at a sponsoring institution
  provide a research project and mentor the student
  for 8 weeks during summer.
• Student participants receive an stipend and
  hands-on experience in an original research
  project. They are expected to be responsible
  workers and elaborate a written report of their
  research at the end of the program.

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Project SEED at Illinois State University

• FACTS
• 2 years of Summer I (2003-2004)
• 10 students
• 4 high schools
• 6 faculty mentors
• 4 sponsors (other than ACS)

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Funding SEED program

• Funds are available from the ACS-SEED program.
  Deadline for application for ACS-SEED funds is
  early February.
• Other potential sources sponsoring institution,
  industry, federal and public agencies, private
  foundations.
• ACS-SEED Matching program ACS will fund one
  student per every three students externally
  funded (cannot combine sources).

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Recruitment Process

• A network of teachers and counselors in the
  Bloomington and Normal public high schools serve
  as the primary source of potentially eligible
  students
• Mary Sutter at Bloomington H.S.
• Camille Taylor at Normal Community H.S.
• Kathy Smalley at Normal Community West H.S.
• Janeice Ives at University H.S.
• SEED coordinator (D.L. Cedeno) visited with
  students and introduced the program. He
  interviewed each student and handled
  applications.
• After receiving all applications, a committee of
  SEED mentors evaluated applications and selected
  participants based on eligibility and
  availability of funds.

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Mentors, Projects, and Students
D.L. Cedeno Determination of metal-olefin bond
strengths. Mentored Casey Huftington, Julio
Martinez, Delano Robinson, Nakisha Wilkes
M.A. Jones Effects of porphyrins on metabolism
of Leishmania Enzyme isolation and purification.
Mentored Christo-Gail Bronson, Nan Lin, Nakisha
Wilkes
C.C. McLauchlan Synthesis and characterization
of vanadium complexes. Mentored Julian Giles
R.W. Nagorski Synthesis and kinetic studies of
benzamide derivatives. Mentored Kimisha Chambers
C.F. Shaw Biomimetic kinetic studies of gold
drug metabolites. Mentored Dustin Hill, Allison
Shelton
L.F. Szczepura Visualizing molecules using x-ray
chrystallography. Mentored Justin Mitchell
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Student Activities
Summer 2003 participants (from left to right)
Marjorie Jones (mentor), Casey Huftington, Nan
Lin, Delano Robinson (students), David Cedeno
(mentor)
Delano Robinson performing a laser photoacoustic
calorimetric experiment with mentor David Cedeno
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Student Activities
Nan Lin performs enzyme purification in Marjorie
Jones laboratory
Casey Huftington looks cool blasting off a CO
ligand from Cr(CO)6 with an UV laser
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Student Activities
Participants present their research to the
Illinois State University community, ACS local
members, their families and friends during a
poster session at the end of the program.
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Student Activities
Participants meet each other and socialize with
coworkers during scheduled informal events.
Above Ice cream social. Right Julian Giles,
Kimisha Chambers, and Nakisha Wilkes have fun
with liquid nitrogen
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Student Activities
SEED students interact with other faculty and
students during a BBQ at the Department Chairs
(C.F. Shaw) house.
Fun demonstrations and experiments serve well to
break the routine of research. Julian Giles and
Justin Mitchell play with diffusion of dyes.
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Student Accomplishments
Julian Giles (above) and Julio Martinez (right)
are presenting their research results at the ACS
GLRM04.
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Student Accomplishments
Nan Lin was the recipient of one of 42 Bader
Scholarships nationwide. The scholarship allowed
her to enroll in college, right after finishing
high school.
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Student Accomplishments

• Julian Giles research was published in Acta
  Crystallographica Section E, 2004, E60.

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Projecting the program into the Community
Students participation in the program was
featured in the local newspaper
A poster session open to the public is held at
the end of the program
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Future of the SEED program

• Continue the project with Summer I and Summer II
  programs.
• Expand the program to include sponsoring
  institutions and high schools in the entire
  ACS-Illinois Heartland Section
• NCAUR, Caterpillar, Bradley University, Knox
  College
• Expand funding through NSF educational grants
  and private sponsors
• Perform an assessment of the professional
  development of students involved in the project.

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Acknowledgments

• ACS-SEED Cecilia Hernandez
• Illinois State University
• College of Arts and Sciences Dean Roberta
  Trites.
• Office of Research and Sponsored ProgramsV.P.
  Gary McGinnis.
• Department of Chemistry C. Frank Shaw, Garnet
  Allen, Leslie Oberts, Mike Kurz, Mentors, Faculty
  and students.
• Strem Chemicals Mike Strem
• The Eppley Foundation
• ACS-Illinois Heartland Section Karen Bartelt,
  Steve Cermak, Vicky Finkenstadt, Marjorie Jones,
  Greg Cote.
• Teachers and Counselors at local H.S. Camille
  Taylor, Janeice Ives, Mary Sutter, Kathy Smalley.