(89% of the students reported having had scientists in their classroom before to lead experiments)

1) Percentage of students interested in knowing how and why things work

- 84% of students responded yes before the program; 89% of students responded yes after the program

- 11% of students were less interested after the program

- 5% of the students were more interested after the program

2) Percentage of students who will take science courses in high school

- 79% of students responded yes before the program; 47% of students responded yes after the program

- 32% of students were less likely to take science courses after the program

- 5% of the students were more likely to take science courses after the program

 3) Percentage of students knowing what kind of jobs scientists do

- 32% of students responded yes before the program; 38% of students responded yes after the program

- 6% reported knowing more after the program

- 11% reported knowing less after the program 

4) Percentage of students interested in being a scientist, engineer or mathematician

- 47% responded yes before the program; 37% responded yes after the program

- 26% were less interested after the program

- 16% were more interested after the program

Narrative responses (only collected after the program) 

1) Did you enjoy the classes?

-Yes, because I like science.

- Sort of.

- Yes because we did interesting things.

- Yes, because I learned a lot.

- Yes, because I think the experiments were interesting and fun.

- I liked it because we did experiments.  The class was fun.

- Yes, because it was fun doing experiments, but we were learning.

- Because ut was fun and I learned a lot.

- Yes, it was fun and not boring like normal science in class.

- Yes, because it was fun learning about things I never knew.

- Yes because it was interesting. 

- Yes, because it wasted the other subjects time and it’s way more fun.

- Yes, because I learned a lot.

- Yes, because it is better than anything else we could have done.

- Yes, it was fun learning about many things.

- Yes, because we learn new things.

- Yes, because I got to learn even more things.

- I enjoyed the classes because I liked doing experiments and learning.

- Yes, cause they taught us cool stuff and they were fun experiments.

- I enjoyed the class because I liked seeing the results.

- Yes, we did interesting experiments.

2) What experiment did you like the best?  What did you learn from it?

- The density project. I learned the meaning of the word density.

- The cloud experiment.  I learned how to make a cloud.

- I liked when we pumped air into a bottle.

- I liked the cloud experiment. I learned a lot about molecules.

- My favorite experiment was the fish experiment because I liked learning the fact that the waste provided more nutrients for the plants.

- I liked the penny experiment because I learned that 15 drops of water can be put on a penny.

- I liked all of them because we learned interesting things.

- I liked the experiment where we made the cloud. The water molecules form dust and smoke.

- The cloud one.  I learned that water molecules form on dust and smoke.

- I liked the one where we made clouds.  We learned water molecules, dust and smoke.  

- The water dome because I learned why water makes a dome.

- The explosion one.  I learned to make an explosion. 

- Density.  Salinity made things float.

- The cloud one, and I learned how clouds are made.

- The cloud - it was fun seeing a puffy cloud.

- All of them!

- Cloud, because I liked when the smoke came out.  I learned you could use dye in a cloud.

- I liked the cloud because I liked the explosion and I learned about pressure. 

- I liked the penny experiment.  I liked it because it was cool to learn about what water tension does.

- My favorite experiment was the density one.  I learned a ton about density.

- The cloud experiment.  It had a cool effect and we learned about pressure. 

3) Do you think math and science are important?  Why?

- They help you get a good job.

- I think they are important because it makes you smart.

- Yes, because when you are grown up a lot of jobs include them.

- Yes, to find out information

-Yes, because it might be on a test that you would need to pass.

- I think math and science are important because you learn things.

-I think math and science are important because without them, we wouldn’t know anything.

- Yes because it makes you smart and it’s fun.

- Yes, because I want a career in engineering. 

- Yes, because it will help you when you grow older.

- Yes, because it helps people.

- Sure, I guess so! I think they’re important because they help you later on.

- Yes, because if you don’t know math or science you will not have some advantages. 

- Kind of, because you need to know these things when we’re adults.

- Yes, it helps you with many things.

- Yes, you would know how to make cars.

- Because it helps you learn.

-They are important because they let us see if things are safe. 

- Yes they are, because without them it would be hard for us to live.

- Math and science are important because you need it later on.  

- Yes, because to learn new things you need to use them.

4)  Why will you or won’t you take science courses in high school?

- I love it!! 

- Because my mom might not do it.

- I love science!

- So I can be smart.

-Maybe, because I like science and it makes you smart.

- I would want to because they’re fun.

- Because I like science.

- Because I don’t know if I want to yet.

- I’m just not really sure.

-Because I like science.

-That’s a long time from now.

- I really like science.

- Because it might be boring.

- Because I like experiments.

- Because I like it a lot.

- Maybe, because I have other talents.

- Because I love science!

- Because science is fun and I’d like to learn about it more!

-Maybe, I don’t know what it is like. 

- I like science.  I also am interetsed in aerospace engineering.

5) What kind of jobs sound interesting to you?

- Chemistry 

-I want to be an archaeologist.

-Horse trainer.

- I don’t know.

- An archaeologist.

- An animal trainer.

- A basketball player, a soccer player, a tennis player, an artist, a mathematician.

- Engineering.

- An astronaut and an inventor.

- Being a football player.

- Technologist, environmentalist, machinery inventor.

- A sports player, vet or chemist.

- Animal trainer.

- Jobs about math and science.

- Engineers - people that figure how to make things work.

- I am interested in engineering and basketball.

- The kind of job that sounds interesting to me is an engineer.

- Astronaut, soccer player, basketball, box designer

- Working for NASA, lab scientist.

6) Why or why not are you interested in being a scientist, engineer or mathemetician?

- Because a scientist is one of the jobs I like and I like others 

-To become as smart as Einstein!

- I love science.   

- I want to be something else.

- Because I like science and I want to learn more things.

- I have a lot of things I want to be and one of them is a scientist.

- They sound interesting, but there are other jobs.

- Because I don’t know if I want to be one or not.

- I want to be an engineer.

- Because I think doing science is fun because you learn a lot.

- Maybe, because it’s a long time from now.

- I like to be a scientist because I like to figure out things.

- I want to make life better.

- Because I think animals need help, not math.

- Because I love MATH

- Maybe, because I have other talents.  I LOVE SCIENCE. 

- Because I like basketball and engineering.

- Because engineers have cool jobs! Like they get to build tons of things and I like building!

- I am very good (Einstein) at math.

- I like working with experimenting and finding new things out.