Friday, May 27, 2011

Periodic Table of Videos takes home the AAAS SPORE Prize

The journal Science is produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an organization that takes its role in promoting science education and outreach seriously. This year, the organization started a program called SPORE, for Science Prize for Online Resources. These prizes honor online materials that help provide high quality and informative science materials for educators and their students. The journal hosts a page to honor earlier SPORE winners; the ones we've looked at clearly deserve the praise they've received.

This week, the latest SPORE recipient is one I'm actually familiar with: the Periodic Table of Videos, a product of the University of Nottingham's Chemistry Department. The prize announcement provides some details on how the program came about, and how it has maintained its atmosphere of spontaneous fun and wonder even as the chemists tackle elements that they're largely unfamiliar with.

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