Project SEED
The Project SEED mission is to provide sustained STEM research, learning, and growth opportunities for high school students with diverse identities and socioeconomic backgrounds so they can be empowered to advance and enrich the chemical science enterprise. Each year, the program supports students with research opportunities with qualified mentors in both academia and industry, as well as providing a virtual summer camp to students focusing on college readiness and professional development, lab preparedness, and exposure to chemistry-related career paths. For more information and to apply, go to the ACS Project SEED Program website.
2025 Project SEED Poster Symposium
Seventeen high school students from thirteen high schools were hosted by NJACS for the 8-week Project SEED program. Dr. Emily Tenenbaum, chemistry teacher at Highland Park High School coordinated the program at the Rutgers University, New Brunswick, site and Bobbi Gorman, retired chemistry teacher, coordinated the Rutgers University, Newark, and Seton Hall University sites. For the 37th year, Seton Hall University hosted the annual poster session, this year on August 14th , under the leadership of Dr. Joseph Badillo, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Students were given certificates and the Reverand Gerald Buonopane, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Seton Hall University, was recognized for his years of mentoring students in the Project Seed Program. Another feature of the evening was the presentation of NJACS Pro Bono Award to Professor Frieder Jaekle, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, Newark for his mentorship and promotion of the Project SEED Program.
This year national Project SEED Committee offered travel grants to students to present their research at the National Meeting in Washington, D.C., on August 18. Seven students from our program attended.