Unity = mc^2. How science fair projects designed for Liberian and African American youth can nuture innate skills needed to revitilize a Nation.

The Pan-African community; not people, our community is a World.

For quite some time now, I've pondered about how the seeds of science could be sowed within the hungry minds of Liberian and African American youth. Equally as important, I've spent many hours thinking of ways to unite Liberian and African American youth using science as a guide.

I'll never forget how thrilled I was to receive my first chemistry set. It complimented science texts that my father purchased during my youth. The " magic " that this set enabled me to do would have a lifelong impact upon me. With this premise, I believe that LARGE AND SOPHISTICATED science fair projects held in Liberia would galvanize the minds of Liberian children. If the children spent a week or so of week engaging in archery, solar energy experiments, amateur artillery exercises, building model rockets, constructing holographic images that light up the night sky, constructing artificial skeletons and performing mock surgeries, etc., their minds would become wired-up for excellence in a very short period of time. However, there is an additional element of excellence that these science fairs could be inclusive of ; the formation of life-lasting friendships with Black youth.

The aforementioned science fairs should be held during the summer months for the following reason ; as many as two-thousand Black youth from America could join the Liberian youth in a spirit of comraderie during the science fairs. Four separate groups of 500 children, 250 boys and 250 girls, could fly from Atlanta, GA and other convenient locations. Group rates could be negotiated with the assistance of local, State, and Nationally elected politicians. The children would be chosen due to both academic ambition AND THE ABILITY TO DISCIPLINE THEMSELVES ! Meeting and making friends with " funny accents " would make the above experience sociologically interesting for the youth from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Each group of children from the U.S. could stay for a week. However, the Liberian youth should and could attend all four science fairs, and in many cases, be assigned leadership roles to guide the " late-coming " Black American youth.

It would be most productive if the same groups of children met each summer, from the age of ten up to the age of eighteen, each summer. Each group would highly anticipate the approach of the summer months, and life-long professional friendships would undoubtedly be formed. Additionally, the eventual construction of excellent schools of science would be inevitable. Even the students who don't become scientists ( no society can exist with everyone doing the same things ) would have critical thinking skills that would make them excel in the mastery of languages, banking, commerce, etc., etc., etc. As adults, the youth that participate in such events would have talents that have no limits.

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