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Delivering breakthrough

innovations

Delivering breakthrough

innovations

Dow delivers breakthrough sustainable chemistry innovations that advance
the well-being of humanity.

WE Are Innovators

Dow chemistry classroom WE Are Innovators is a joint project between
Dow and WE, a Canada-based non-profit organization
Dow chemistry classroom, a collaboration with learning programs that engage young people
between Dow Thailand Group and the Chemical globally and empower them. The program encourages
Society of Thailand, under the Royal Patronage young people to innovate through STEM (Science
of Princess Srisavangavadhana, has contributed Technology Engineering and Mathematics) activities
to the advance of science teaching and learning to tackle the challenges of providing food and
since 2013. The small-scale chemistry laboratory, energy and finding new paths to sustainability.
both small and safe, can be used as standard In 2019, the student team from Damrongrat
teaching equipment for the class. The lab set uses Songkro School, Chiang Rai province, won WE Are
2,000 times less chemicals and has been certified
by UNESCO to have the same teaching impact as Innovators with the project ‘Bio-cellulose sheets
standard chemistry lab equipment. from pineapple peel waste for orchid nurseries’.
The project’s main activities include delivering Pineapple peels are abundant as local agricultural
small-scale chemistry laboratory workshops to a waste. This material replaces coconut husk or charcoal
group of secondary school teachers, a contest for or non-recyclable Styrofoam. The teacher-students
the best application of the small-scale laboratory, team also represented the Asia-Pacific as delegates
and training Dow chemistry classroom teachers. on a field trip and social activities in Kenya during
More than 20,000 teachers from 762 schools have June 28th to July 9th, 2019.
been through the training sessions. During the past
seven years there have been 78 teachers who have
gone through an intensive training. Over 100,000
students have also participated in the project.

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