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Abstract

Project SEED is an innovative career development activity for economically disadvantaged students: For 8 to 10 weeks during the summer before their senior year in high school, SEED students work on a research project for which they receive a stipend. It is the social action program of the American Chemical Society, and is the nation's original research opportunity program for high school students. Originally called Catalyst, the summer research program was part of a broad action strategy developed in 1968-69 by the Subcommittee on the Education and Employment of the Disadvantaged (SEED). The high school summer program was the only component of that strategy that flourished, and when Project SEED became a full committee of the ACS Council the acronym was redefined as a Summer Educational Experience for the Disadvantaged and the name Catalyst was dropped. In 1993, ACS will celebrate a quarter-century of unbroken service by Project SEED to more than 3000 young men ...