Science Fair: UUFSM presents Joseph Priestley Awards
Date and time:
Saturday, 4 February 2012 - 1:00pm - 5:30pm 
UUFSM is a religion of both reverence and reason. In support of that, we award the Joseph Priestley Cash Award (Junior and Senior categories) to the students whose science fair project in chemistry has the best potential to improve quality of life or shows great promise.
This year’s Science Fair will be held Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Great Mills High School. Judging takes place from 8:00 a.m. to noon. The public is invited to view the projects from 1:00 to 3:30 in the afternoon. The awards ceremony begins at 3:30.
The Science Fair is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their interest in science and their understanding of scientific methods. Participation will develop skills in critical thinking, scientific literacy, and communication. A successful science project clearly reveals that science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking and a way of understanding. These skills and processes help prepare students for a changing and challenging future.
About Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley was born in England in 1733. He was a Unitarian minister and a noted teacher, and wrote articles on a wide variety of subjects. He stressed the importance of education and of independent inquiry. “Through [science]," he wrote, "the security and happiness of mankind are daily improved.” A friend of Benjamin Franklin, Priestley moved to the United States of America in 1794. His sermons in Philadelphia did much to spread Unitarianism before he settled in Northumberland, PA, where he died ten years later. (See http://www.josephpriestleyhouse.org/ for more information.) The UU Joseph Priestley District encompasses southern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and northern Virginia.
