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Florida Southern College hosts
summer workshop

LAKELAND, Fla. (July 11, 2001) - Florida Southern College will host a summer chemistry workshop for 34 high school teachers July 16-20.

Sponsored by the Flinn Scientific Foundation, a non-profit organization, the workshop focuses on enhancing the teacher's knowledge of chemical demonstrations, hands-on laboratory activities, and National Education Science standards for chemistry. Teachers will study safety issues, micro-scale techniques, and innovative teaching techniques during the five-day program.

Dr. Carmen Gauthier, a Florida Southern chemistry professor, obtained the funds for the workshop. Gauthier learned about the Flinn Foundation's summer workshops at the Biennial Conference in Chemical Education held last summer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Teachers from several states will attend. "This will be the first workshop hosted in the southeastern region," Gauthier said. The program is modeled after the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Torch Program.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a private, four-year, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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