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I immediately reached out to the Classical Association of the Middle West and South to acquire outreach funding . CAMWS ' s outreach funding committee quickly approved my request ( as they always do because they are set up to be nimble and so helpful ), and I got busy planning our first " All STEM Leads to Rome : Classics Day at the Museum ."
Nearly 50 students from my school , Glasgow Middle , and another local school , Baton Rouge Magnet High School , volunteered to run the stations . With the pandemic still a force to be reckoned with , we didn ' t know what to expect , but when the doors to the museum opened , we were flooded with visitors . All told we ended up with 701 participants ! The museum immediately asked us if we would repeat the event the following year .
Flash forward to last spring , and we are now in the books with " All STEM Leads to Rome II : Classical Chemistry and Engineering ." We were sponsored by BASF , the international chemical company with a local plant in our city of Baton Rouge . Frequent sponsors of free Sundays and chemistry workshops for kids at the museum , they paid admission fees for " Free First Sunday " event ( about $ 6000 ), and the Society for Classical Studies paid for our activity supplies and t-shirts ($ 1000 ) with an Ancient Worlds , Modern Communities grant . With a nod to our sponsors , we focused on chemistry and engineering from the classical world .
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