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	Leadership \| Resources for Science Learning \| The Franklin Institute
		The Center for Innovation in Science Learning at The Franklin Institute is a premier center for science learning research, program development, and educational services.
		The Franklin Institute Awards are among the oldest and most prestigious comprehensive science awards in the world.
		PACTS (Partnerships for Achieving Careers in Technology and Science) is a year-round youth leadership experience, designed to involve students as an integral part of The Franklin Institute.
	www.fi.edu /learn/leadership.html (215 words)

	Franklin Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Franklin Institute is the memorial to Benjamin Franklin, that serves to perpetuate his legacy; the museum contains many of Franklin's personal effects.
		On February 5, 1824, Samuel Vaughan Merrick and William H. Keating founded The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.
		Benjamin Franklin National Memorial is a 20 foot high statue, sculpted by James Earle Fraser, that sits within the rotunda of the institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_Institute (394 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Benjamin Franklin was probably the most significant "founding father" of the United States of America who never served as its President.
		Franklin also conceived the mid-room furnace, the "Franklin Stove." In those days rooms could only be heated with a fire in a fireplace, which by definition was set into a wall.
		However, Franklin's design was flawed, in that his furnace vented the smoke from its base: because the furnace lacked a chimney to "draw" fresh air up through the central chamber, the fire would soon go out.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/franklin.html (534 words)

	CNN.com - Ben Franklin's dollars fund modern scholars - Oct. 28, 2002
		Franklin's small bequest has grown to millions of dollars and is being used to support scholarships, symphonies, and projects in Boston as well.
		Franklin knew his bequest would grow over the years, so he stipulated that after 100 years about one-quarter of the sum should continue to be used to make loans, while the remaining three-quarters could be used for public works in each city.
		It was not uncommon in Franklin's day for the well-to-do to leave large charitable bequests, and Franklin's was nowhere near the largest in Philadelphia's history.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/EDUCATION/10/28/franklin.bequests.ap (874 words)

	"Franklin...He's Electric!" @ The Franklin Institute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The role of The Franklin Institute in major scientific breakthroughs during its 175-year-plus history is highlighted in a special section, "The Wonderland of Science." This was a term coined to describe the museum shortly after its opening in 1934.
		Although today The Franklin Institute is a world-renowned leader in hands-on science education, it was founded in 1824 to teach the mechanical arts.
		Franklin was one of the first to discover that storms tend to move from west to east, and he made some of the first- recorded weather forecasts in his Poor Richard's Almanack.
	sln.fi.edu /tfi/exhibits/franklin.html (1083 words)

	Benjamin Franklin's Extraordinary Leadership -- by Jack Uldrich full-text article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Franklin once wrote, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine." He felt it was shortsighted to view business activities as something separate and distinct from the community in which those businesses and their employees work and live.
		Franklin was such a successful diplomat because he understood that success depended in equal parts on hardheaded strategic factors and on softer forms of idealism.
		Franklin argued that the notion of America was not just a victory for his new country; it was a victory for mankind.
	www.pfdf.org /leaderbooks/L2L/fall2005/uldrich.html (2882 words)

	Leader of revived technical college to build on success - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Continuing education - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Two years ago, the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, short on students and money, nearly closed its doors after almost a century of preparing students for careers in science and engineering.
		No other secondary institution in the area offers education and training in the engineering and technology arena and caters primarily to low-income and academically disadvantaged students.
		It's a critical time in BFIT's history because there are an extraordinarily high number of students interested in a technical degree, and some 1 million workers in Massachusetts who lack the general skills to compete in the global economy.
	www.boston.com /news/education/continuing/articles/2005/07/31/leader_of_revived_technical_college_to_build_on_success (673 words)

	Physics Today October 2003- Article: Benjamin Franklin, Civic Scientist
		Franklin would want us to address the conundrum that, at a time when science is so integral to society, government policy, and world affairs, scientists are rarely called to the table when the big decisions are made.
		Franklin might organize a series of science seminars for policymakers and cajole some members of the science community to lead that task, perhaps in partnership with the few scientists in Congress.
		Franklin would suggest that scientists could benefit from a little Communications 101, that is, lessons in how to communicate effectively with politicians and the general public about the essentials of science, without the esoteric details.
	www.physicstoday.org /vol-56/iss-10/p41.html (4060 words)

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