Teachers were engaged in science as inquiry with university faculty as coaches and mentors. Through these teachers, LPT has improved the learning of millions of children.
Efforts are also underway to create and develop Web-based institutes.
I teach very disadvantaged kids. My students are tactile learners, visual people. If I can show them something instead of just speaking, if I bring it to life, they will retain it. At the 1998 summer institutes at Princeton and Rutgers, Bodha and 125 other science teachers worked with luminaries in their fields, including Prof. Oscar Schofield, the leading expert on phyto-planktons, those tiny organisms that make the night seas shimmer. The teachers learned to operate high-tech lab equipment, including the fluorometer, which measures the radiation emitted by planktons to determine their vitality.