It's hard. It's boring. And it has ...

It's hard. It's boring. And it has no relation to what I want to do in life. According to teen Jerry Guo too many bookish mans take this view of science and needlessly divert away from science-related careers. brace years ago, as a sophomore at Riverside High educate in Greer, S.C., Jerry offered to help teach science at an inner-city exercise He found that students at the exercise were turned off by science because they couldn't papal court the connection between science and real life. They saw science solitary as a school subject--and a hard single in kind at that. So Jerry gathered a certain number of friends, all self-described "science nerds" and started ScienceHelp, an organization that helps underprivileged bookish mans across the country experience the ecstasys of hands-on science research. The program sparks interest in science-related careers. In the past year, 200 ScienceHelp mentors helped several hundr middle and high denomination students develop science projects.

Scientific research, says Jerry "has changed my confess life in so many positive ways that, between the walls of ScienceHelp, I hope to give other teen the same opportunities I had."

Jerry was honored with a Prudential Spirit of Community Award for ScienceHelp. After community he hopes to become a researcher in the biological sciences and to eventually start his have biotechnology company.

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