Alumni Rendezvous: An Instrument of Building Network & Relationship

The next generation of youngsters, as it passes through school, must be as well educated in and about science to enable them to prosper in our democratic society.Moreover, the everincreasing scientific and technological progress challenges man's ingenuity to improve his methods of processing, retrieving and reporting all sorts of scientific information.In a sense, we need a 'new breed' of people who can combine science with other talents, as for example, the scientist, librarian and the science reporter.Good science teaching is one of the most valuable ways to meet this urgent need for science-educated citizens and workers.Enthusiastic, intelligent, and well-educated science teachers inspire and prepare students to investigate the great questions of science and the questions raised by the scientific discoveries that affect us and our society.Mainly through the inspiration of devoted science teachers, great numbers of students develop lifelong scientific interests and learn to appreciate and understand the nature of science and its usefulness to mankind (Ediger and Rao, 1996).