Volume 72
Public Law 85–875
To require the Commissioner of Education to encourage, foster, and assist in the establishment of clubs for boys and girls especially interested in science.
Approved September 2, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To require the Commissioner of Education to encourage, foster, and assist in the establishment of clubs for boys and girls especially interested in science.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in order to strengthen future scientific accomplishment in our Nation by assisting in the development of a body of boys and girls with a special interest in science, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1959, and for each fiscal year thereafter, such sums, not in excess of $50,000, as may be necessary to enable the Commissioner of Education to encourage, foster, and assist in the establishment in localities throughout the Nation of clubs which are composed of boys and girls who have an especial interest in science.
Sec. 2.
The Commissioner of Education shall carry out his duties under the first section with a view to the ultimate chartering by the Congress of a corporation, similar to the Future Farmers of America, which will seek to—
develop an interest in science on the part of the young people of America,
provide an opportunity for the exchange of scientific information and ideas among members of the clubs,
encourage the promotion of science fairs at which members of the clubs may display their scientific works and projects, and
develop an awareness of the satisfactions to be derived through a career devoted to science.
The Commissioner of Education may utilize any of the personnel and facilities of the Office of Education in carrying out this Act.
Approved September 2, 1958.