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ScienceSouth celebrates milestone; 100,000th program participant!

Florence, SC — ScienceSouth achieved a major milestone as the organization dedicated to inspiring, educating and entertaining students through science and technology reached its 100,000th participant. “Since we began offering programs in 2003, ScienceSouth has been focused on improving opportunities for the young people,” Hood Temple, chairman of ScienceSouth, said. “By implementing the mobile laboratories, ScienceSouth has been able to leverage its resources to bring its standards-based science programs to large numbers of students and teachers.”

Andrew Dempewolf, a student at Southside Middle School, was ScienceSouth’s 100,000th participant. Dempewolf was participating in a microbiology lab at the school when the 100,000th participant was announced. Instead of counting down to the 100,000th participant, ScienceSouth asked students participating in the lab to write a letter explaining how they see themselves as the next generation of scientists, engineers or technicians. The student with the most exciting essay was selected as the 100,000th participant. Dempewolf wrote about being an aeronautics engineer and for that he received an Alpha 60 Ready-to-Fly airplane training set. “Andrew Dempewolf sees science and engineering as a part of his life,” Perry Gauthier, project manager for ScienceSouth, said. “We want to support his vision of becoming an aeronautics engineer.”