5 THE PEOPLE 



FiS kids: Rebecca Jackson, Tracy Goldsmith, Eric Hallstien, John Gagna/i. Photograph by George Liles. MBL Archives. 



The new "FiS Kids" program to promote Futures in Science for high 

 school students and their teachers promises to involve more of the local 

 youtli in science at an early age. During the first year, the four selected 

 students pursued sophisticated projects. Each got negative as well as some 

 positive results. Each expressed with enthusiasm the value of the experience. 

 These students learned early what science is about: it is not always so neat 

 and tidy as it seems from most preprogrammed elementary laboratory 

 exercises, but it is a lot more fun and exciting. With the cooperation and 

 support of the MBL Associates, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the 

 Monsanto Corporation, and tlie Falmouth school disfrict, this program 

 exhibits a remarkably successful cooperation of public, private, and institu- 

 tional interests. "Get the younger generation involved in science, and keep 

 science young" is the motto here. 



