Alumna Ana Roda, Charter Member of the Society
Ana Roda was a participant in the Society鈥檚 Discovery Middle School Program in 2003 and 2004 (pictured next to her 2004 project), and a finalist in the Intel STS 2008. Her senior project examined the environmental impact on the water quality of two streams near a nuclear power reactor. She is now concentrating in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard.
鈥淚 think science is so important,鈥� she says, but she is concerned about how few other people also appreciate science. 鈥淚鈥檓 majoring in science in college now and I think a lot of people are deterred from majoring in science, which is really sad.鈥� She thinks people can be turned off when they perceive it as too hard and not interesting. 鈥淚 think the way people are taught science a lot of the time focuses too much on little technicalities or memorizing rather than just how overall cool a lot of science is.鈥�
This is part of the reason that Roda recently reconnected with the Society, offering herself as a volunteer and becoming a member of the Society: she had had a great experience with science research, especially through the Society鈥檚 programs. 鈥淎nything that encourages people to stay in science is a good thing, and something that is worth doing.鈥�
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