Science gets a rap – Tom McFadden

Tuesday, 5 June 2012, 8:56 am
Article: sticK

Science gets a rap – Tom McFadden

By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - 5 June 2012 ) Getting kids interested in science is a bit of a challenge around New Zealand, but transplanted American Tom McFadden’s doing his best to up the excitement.

The Californian, a Stanford biology lecturer in a former life, is currently studying a Masters in Science Communication at Otago University, and recently made a Fullbright Scholar sponsored trip around a number of NZ schools under the persona, Rhymebosome.

This is his ‘science rapper’ moniker, where a beat plus rhyming words provides children with another view of how things work. Here’s a Youtube video of him in action.

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