Project Seed Students Visit the NJIT Library

Project SEED, administered by the American Chemical Society, is a summer research program for economically disadvantaged high school students to experience what it’s like to be a chemist. Today I spoke to groups of students who will be working this summer with Professor Lisa Axe of Civil and Environment Engineering and Professor Trevor Tyson of Physics. I taught them the basics of library research, that they should search for basic information in books before they even consider searching databases for articles. Some of the students were interesting in high temperature superconductors. Another was interested in the chemicals that existed in glass beads that are used as highway markers.