$500 for the best song/poem about sewage* treatment.
$500 for a floating, remote controlled mini-raft that strains small trash out of a small lake or pond - must be powered by a shop vac.
And one that I keep fiddling with thinking about doing small scale: $25-50 grants to fund elementary school science projects.**
I'm sure I'd come up with bigger and better ones if I had the cash at hand.
* wastewater for the PC
** I keep trying to put together the ideas that:
1) a lot of kids dismiss the possibility of a science career when they're very young, just on the grounds that it's not the thing that their sort of person does,
2) not just kids, but most people don't know that scientists spend about a third of their time writing grants to get next year's research funded, and
3) a lot of kids don't think about doing science projects because they don't have the equipment or the funds to do them.
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Maybe some day I'll do more than think about that last one. In the meantime, this blog was meant to be a place to list the things that I've wanted to do and feel guilty about not doing, and I haven't been doing that much. In fact, this might be the first time I've done it.
I've thought about this idea for years.
