WEIRD SCIENCE is made up of three to five members of Chemistry West, a Chicago area chemistry teachers’ alliance network. The demonstrations and ideas presented in "Weird Science" are taken from the monthly meetings of Chemistry West and other conferences. This slightly crazed group is composed of : 

LEE MAREK , an AP & chemistry teacher at Naperville North High School with over twenty five years experience. Among the awards Lee has received are the Presidential Award, Golden Apple Award, Christa McAuliffe Fellow, American Chemical Society's James Bryant Conant Award, CMA's National Catalyst Award for Teaching Chemistry, Chemical Industries Council of Illinois Davidson Award, Sigma Xi Outstanding Teacher Award, Those Who Excel Award Illinois, Tandy Technology Scholar Award for Outstanding Teachers, Governors Master Teacher and ASTC [Assoc. of Sci. & Tech. Centers] Honor Roll of Teachers. He was a Woodrow Wilson Chem Team leader and is now a Flinn Team leader. Lee has also become a regular on "The David Letterman Show" and Bozo Show. He has a kids’ science book in your local book store!!

BOB LEWIS, who has been teaching AP & chemistry at his Alma mater, Downers Grove North High School, for 22 years. Bob has received the Davidson Award, Tandy Technology Scholar Award for Outstanding Teachers, American Chemical Society's James Bryant Conant Award, CMA Regional Catalyst Award for Teaching Chemistry, Those Who Excel Award Illinois, The Sigma Xi Award, ASTC [Assoc. of Sci. & Tech. Centers] Honor Roll of Teachers, the Golden Apple Award and The Presidential Award for his outstanding teaching. He was a Woodrow Wilson Chem Team leader and is now a Flinn Team Leader. Bob has been featured in Newsweek and appeared on the David Letterman show. 

DEWAYNE LIENEMAN, who has taught chemistry and Advanced Placement Chemistry for over 25 years at Glenbard South High School. DeWayne has been recognized for his professional excellence with a Sigma Xi Award, ASTC [Assoc. of Sci. & Tech. Centers] Honor Roll of Teachers and was a Illinois Presidential Award Finalist in 1989. He was selected as a Woodrow Wilson Master Teacher in 1989 and was on a Woodrow Wilson chemistry team specializing in environmental chemistry and now on a Flinn Team. He is currently working for Chicago State University & the University of Illinois driving a chemistry van to various schools in Chicago to help increase the lab programs in the Chicago schools. 

WEIRD SCIENCE has been presented live to over 250,000 teachers, students, and interested persons since it came into existence in the back seat of a station wagon while we were stuck in traffic on our way to a CHEM WEST meeting in 1985. 

 

Maintained by: Chris Weilemann Lee Marek