Pagosa Springs Rotary Club
Speakers: Rotary’s David Smith and Kim (Vanna White) Moore
Our intrepid international voyageurs took the dais to regale the meeting with tales of their travels during last March through Senegal, the sub-Saharan east African nation that David has lent his heart and mind to for the past four years in connection with a Rotary Global Grant project.
David, a former University of Nebraska chemistry professor who is retired from the vocation of educating, but has never lost his enthusiasm for the avocation of teaching, explained that the project was initiated several years ago with the concept of aiding science education in a poor, peaceful and Islamic country (in the hope of making a contribution to world understanding simultaneously with science education). Senegal was selected, as reported in a previous edition of the Bulletin, in part due to the commitment of its government to a policy ensuring that within 25 years, 75% of its high school students will be receiving at least some education in science before graduation.
The project has now been operated annually for four years; and David reported that total funding of $230,000 has been devoted to it during that period, not including the participants’ self-funded travel expenses. Of that sum, 70% has been provided by the Rotary Foundation, he said.
Our intrepid international voyageurs took the dais to regale the meeting with tales of their travels during last March through Senegal, the sub-Saharan east African nation that David has lent his heart and mind to for the past four years in connection with a Rotary Global Grant project.
David, a former University of Nebraska chemistry professor who is retired from the vocation of educating, but has never lost his enthusiasm for the avocation of teaching, explained that the project was initiated several years ago with the concept of aiding science education in a poor, peaceful and Islamic country (in the hope of making a contribution to world understanding simultaneously with science education). Senegal was selected, as reported in a previous edition of the Bulletin, in part due to the commitment of its government to a policy ensuring that within 25 years, 75% of its high school students will be receiving at least some education in science before graduation.
The project has now been operated annually for four years; and David reported that total funding of $230,000 has been devoted to it during that period, not including the participants’ self-funded travel expenses. Of that sum, 70% has been provided by the Rotary Foundation, he said.
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