Growing Project SEED in Philadelphia: A Virtual Panel

With our panelists, learn more and get involved in ACS Project SEED, which connects high school students with diverse identities and socioeconomic backgrounds with summer research opportunities.

This is an event of the Philadelphia Local Section of the American Chemical Society and is open to the public. High school teachers and prospective mentors (both academic and industrial) in the Delaware Valley are especially encouraged to attend.

About the Panelists:

Brandon Presley completed two summers of research funded by Project SEED, which helped him finalize his decision to pursue chemistry as a career. After completing his undergraduate degree, he was afforded the opportunity to work at the lab where he completed his research internships. Brandon is now a Ph.D. chemist working in the pharmaceutical industry and teaching at a university. He is certain that Project SEED played a major role in who he has become.

Sharon Haynie was a project SEED mentor during her employment at DuPont Central Research. She continues to support Project SEED.

Jeremy Heyman has volunteered as a coordinator for Project SEED since 2010, first in the Bronx, then the Lehigh Valley, and now in Philadelphia. He has seen and documented the impact of early research experiences like Project SEED, starting with the high school students he taught and advised in the Bronx. Jeremy is excited to collaborate and connect with more folks in Philadelphia to grow our local ACS Project SEED footprint and is connected to a growing pipeline of talented students from local underinvested communities from his work as Associate Director of STEM Pathways at Heights Philadelphia (previously Steppingstone Scholars), which counts 19 Philly public high schools among its partners. Please speak with him ASAP if you're interested in mentoring SEED student(s) in 2023, so he can include your project in his 2023 proposal to ACS Project SEED, due in early February.