Public Outreach for 2014
Howard & Sally Peters

   Besides the Section's many programs and activities that include public outreach, Howard and Sally Peters have given talks on chocolate and its chemistry via many different venues.
   A brief listing of the dates and locations follows:

Feb          “Chocolate, Food of the Gods” at the Vi in Palo Alto, California (Vi is an upscale retirement
                home at Stanford University)

March      “SCI MIX  CHAL”  Posters and  Chocolate give-away and raffle in Dallas Texas

                Greater Houston, Texas  Local Section: a chocolate lecture was given

April      SPLASH program for 7-12th graders at Stanford University.  Chocolate  & Invention
               (with patented toys)

May        “Chocolate: A Religious Experience”:  lecture at Pepperdine University in California. These
                were  Bible Lectures in  Malibu, California.

               The “Chocolate, Food of the Gods”  lecture was given  at a meeting of the San Diego,
               California Local Section.

              Howard Peters was invited to be a judge for geochemistry at the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, California

June        “Chocolate, Food of the Gods” was given  at the Chemistry Department, University of
                Hawaii,  Honolulu,  Hawaii

Aug         “Chocolate: A Religious Experience” was presented at the Sierra Bible Camp,  Lake
                Almanor, California.

                “Chocolate and Invention , a SCI MIX CHAL, a Chocolate give-away and raffle (with patented toys) in San Francisco; Howard and Sally  provided all the chocolate

                Both “Chocolate: A Religious  Experience”  and a talk about invention (with  patented toys) were given on a  Sun Princess Alaska Cruise.
 
Sept.       “Chocolate:  A Religious Experience” was given at the Santa Clara University  Law School reunion, celebration in Santa Clara, California

Oct          “Chocolate, Food of the Gods” was given at the “Teach the Teachers Workshop” at Mission College, Santa Clara, California

                “Chocolate,  Food of the Gods” was given at  Chaminade University in Honolulu,  Hawaii

Nov         Five Lectures on “Science” and on “Chemistry and Invention” were given on a Crown Princess Cruise to Tahiti. They were given in the Princess Theater and then  rebroadcast next day on the ship's in-cabin TV.

--Howard Peters

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