Peninsula Ed Foundation support keeps education standards high
PEF Board Governance Committee members: Susan Welch, Secretary; Susan Hay, VP Board Governance; Bernd Hauschildt, VP Finance; Deidre Manns, President; Kristin Curren, VP Community Relations; Andrea Sala, Executive Director; John Bacich, VP Major Donors. Photo by David Fairchild Bleary-eyed preteens in science and math classrooms throughout the country struggle to stay awake. They suffer through chemistry lab assignments whose climaxes tend to be some indicator turning purple when placed in the correct vial of liquid. They haphazardly complete science fair projects and long for the high school days ahead when they will have some options in terms of what courses they take. And most of them will take the fewest math and science courses required of them. Then there is the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) lab at the Palos Verdes Intermediate School where excited groups of eight graders run around a modern lab, building intricate mousetrap devices that use the principles of physics to not only allow a marble to successfully run through the course, but to have that marble then pass automatically into the mousetrap of the neighboring group. They are learning simple machines…
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