Phil Plait takes over as President of JREF
James Randi has offered the role of President of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to Dr. Phil Plait, who accepted.
You can read the press release here.
Some new and exciting changes may be coming to the JREF. From the press release:
With Dr. Plait at the helm, the JREF will be expanding its efforts, including educating children. “I want to teach kids about the wonders of the real Universe. We can do this by partnering with the educational community and developing fun, hands-on materials that schoolchildren can use in the classroom to teach them about critical thinking and the scientific method. Science is sometimes taught as being cold and dull, but nothing could be more wrong! It’s exciting, it’s fun, and it’s cool. Kids are natural scientists, and we need to encourage that, foster it, and let it grow.”
Below is a photo of me with Phil Plait.
