Scientific Thinkers

Scientific Thinkers is a partnership between OSU and Columbus Elementary Schools. Through the Scientific Thinkers™ program, undergraduate and graduate students from OSU STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) departments work with the first through fifth-grade science and mathematics teachers at Innis Elementary to develop and teach hands-on science lessons to first through fifth-grade students. Everyone involved benefits from participating in this program. We have also added two six-week after school programs with Mansion Day School. In this program, volunteers work with kindergarten through fifth-grade students to engage in hands-on science lessons. Through the engagement with undergraduate and graduate students and faculty, our aim is to give the elementary school students an opportunity to learn what it is to be like a scientist and think like a scientist, giving them confidence in their own abilities and thinking skills which they will use in and out of school.