{"id":45239,"date":"2017-03-09T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-discover-restek.pantheonsite.io\/?p=45239"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:17:40","slug":"restek-inspires-future-scientists-at-stem-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/comunicati-stampa-news\/gnpr2696\/restek-inspires-future-scientists-at-stem-fair","title":{"rendered":"Restek Inspires Future Scientists at STEM Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scott Grossman, Fang-Yun Lo, Samantha Harter, and Titus Morehead visited Park Forest Middle School to present during the school\u2019s STEM Fair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

An auditorium full of middle schoolers may seem like a tough audience for teaching new scientific concepts, but in Restek\u2019s experience, they are quite attentive and engaged. So, employees at Restek love taking the opportunity to share their knowledge
with area youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI could go through a slide show presentation, but something tells me you wouldn\u2019t be that interested in it. So, I\u2019m going to get you involved and teach you through action,\u201d Scott Grossman, a content development specialist at Restek, told an auditorium of more than 200 students in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, teams at Restek have presented a variety of interactive performances to elementary and middle school students about chromatography. This past April, Grossman, with his colleagues Samantha Harter, Fang-Yun Lo, and Titus Morehead, visited
Park Forest Middle School to present during the school\u2019s STEM Fair. The annual event encourages student involvement and future careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe keep inviting Restek back because their presentation is high quality and they do a good job at communicating what they do at an appropriate level for the students,\u201d Mike Bierly, an eighth-grade science teacher at Park Forest, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s presentation teaches chromatography by comparing it to a party. The presenters invite dozens of students on stage to create a party atmosphere that will function like a chromatography column\u2019s stationary phase. Then, other students pass
through the party\u2014some having been instructed offstage to interact extensively with other partygoers, while others were instructed to interact very little and \u201celute\u201d quickly, ignoring the party and passing straight to the food table. As students reach
the food table, \u201cpeaks\u201d in an illustrative chromatogram are generated. Grossman explains that analyzing these different types of partygoers is very similar to how chemists use chromatography to analyze the contents of liquid and gas samples\u2014compounds
interact with the column\u2019s stationary phase to different degrees, allowing them to be separated and, ultimately, identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun to see the students engage and start to understand the concepts,\u201d said Harter, a process engineer at Restek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lori Dundon, a Restek marketing communications manager, kick-started Restek\u2019s engagement with local elementary and middle schools in Central Pennsylvania years ago when her kids were attending Park Forest Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted my kids to understand what I do for work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grossman took on the challenge of developing a presentation and has since offered it, and others, to many local schools and thousands of future scientists<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like I always tell the students\u2014it doesn\u2019t matter what you end up doing in your career, you need to be a good communicator,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teaching concepts of chromatography to elementary and middle school STEM students is another way Restek connects with and gives back to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818],"tags":[],"industries-application":[],"post-badge":[],"resource-type":[],"product-library":[],"resource-technique":[],"ppma_author":[414],"class_list":["post-45239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati-stampa-news"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":818,"label":"Comunicati Stampa e News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Restek Corporation","author_link":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/author\/restek-corporation\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":818,"name":"Comunicati Stampa e News","slug":"comunicati-stampa-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":818,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":70,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":818,"category_count":70,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Comunicati Stampa e News","category_nicename":"comunicati-stampa-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"authors":[{"term_id":414,"user_id":11,"is_guest":0,"slug":"restek-corporation","display_name":"Restek Corporation","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restek_Favicon_300x300.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restek_Favicon_300x300.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55783,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45239\/revisions\/55783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"industries-application","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industries-application?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"post-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-badge?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"resource-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-type?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"product-library","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-library?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"resource-technique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-technique?post=45239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discover.restek.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=45239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}