[October 21, 2016]

Cape Cod Businessman, Dr. Jack Driscoll of PID Analyzers, LLC, Saluted for STEM Education Initiatives in Southeastern Mass

On Friday October 7, 2016, Cape Cod resident and business owner, John "Jack" Driscoll, American Chemical Society Distinguished Fellow and 50 Year Member of the Society, was honored as the 2016 Northeast Region recipient of the E. Ann Nalley award for volunteer service to the American Chemical Society at an awards ceremony in Binghamton, NY.

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Jack Driscoll (PID Analyzers), at right, receiving the E. Ann Nalley Volunteer Service Award from Laura Pence (University of Hartford), ACS District I Director. Photo by M.Z. Hoffman (News - Alert) (Photo: Business Wire)

The E. Ann Nalley Award recognizes the volunteer efforts of individuals who have served the American Chemical Society, contributing significantly to the goals and objectives of the Society through their regional activities. Driscoll's efforts for bringing science education based programming for adults and K-16 students in Southeastern Massachusetts for the past six years were applauded. In his role as Public Relations Chair for the Northeastern Local Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS), Driscoll, together with his daughter and Cape Cod based small instrumentation manufacturing business partner, Jennifer Maclachlan, brought their first National Chemistry Week celebration to the afterschool program at the West Barnstable YMCA in 2010 with hands-on chemistry experiments. As seed funding became available to host International Year of Chemistry programs in 2011, Driscoll and Maclachlan, with encouragement from NESACS, organized four science cafes: Protecting the Water Supply on Cape Cod, Alternative Energy, The Chemistry of Craft Beer hosted by Cape Cod Beer and Healthy Kids. The Healthy Kids science café attracted 150 children from Plymouth to mid-Cape. This led to an invitation to kick off a science club at a Plymouth elementary school and the public desire for more science outreach events for kids in Southeastern Massachusetts.

In 2013, Driscoll became Chair of the Southeastern Massachusetts area of NESACS and organized technical lectures for fellow ACS (News - Alert) member chemists, younger chemists and students at U Mass Dartmouth, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Marine Biological Laboratory and Bridgewater State University bringing together Southeastern Massachusetts scientists who would otherwise have to travel to Boston to attend such high quality scientific lectues and networking opportunities. Continuing to foster his passion for science education, Driscoll began a powerful partnership with the Cape & Islands Boy Scouts Council of America by bringing the Cape Cod Science Café for kids to the Boy Scouts Wicked Cool Autumn Welcome. Weaving Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) components into existing en masse Scout activities was well received and a stand-alone event dubbed STEM Journey launched in 2014 with Driscoll at the helm. The Cape Cod Science Café within the Wicked Cool Autumn Welcome has garnered two ChemLuminary national awards by the American Chemical Society: In 2014 for Outstanding Collaboration between NESACS and the Environmental Chemistry Division for a specific audience: Boy Scouts, and again in 2015 for Outstanding National Chemistry Week event for a specific audience: Boy Scouts. In 2016, STEM Journey received the Best New Public Relations Program of a Local American Chemical Society Section for STEM Journey II: Great White Sharks to Deep Ocean Exploration.

October 29, 2016 will make the fourth annual Wicked Cool Autumn Welcome and Cape Cod Science Café collaboration featuring a Forensic Science Café to coincide with the 2016 National Chemistry Week theme: Solving mysteries through chemistry. Forensic themed hands-on activities will be led by the Barnstable County Crime Investigation Unit, Cambridge Science Festival's Science On the Street, Palladium Science Academy, Smithers Viscient, LLC, PID Analyzers, LLC and Whydah Pirate Museum.

STEM Journey IV: Technology is scheduled for March 25, 2017 with guest lecturer Luke Roberson of NASA. This free STEM education event attracts over 1,500 attendees and features two public interest STEM themed lectures and over 50 hands-on exhibits/demos by local area STEM education stakeholders. This collaborative event with PID Analyzers and the Boy Scouts will be held at the Sandwich STEM Academy at Sandwich High School.

While Driscoll's public outreach initiatives have been focused largely in Southeastern Mass, he also impacted NESACS Boston area scientific programming by arranging special lectures by recent Nobel (News - Alert) Laureates Martin Karplus and W.E. Moerner to the delight of the local scientific community. In 2015 Driscoll chaired the NESACS committee that commemorated Edwin Land and instant photography as Massachusetts' first National Historic Chemical Landmark during the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Boston.

In addition to his volunteer work for the American Chemical Society, Driscoll serves on the Board of Directors for the Cape & Islands Boy Scouts Council of America, is an active member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association National Committee on Real-Time Detection Systems, and is an exemplary alum of Suffolk University having earlier this month delivered a talk to current science and engineering students titled Development of a Scientific Career & Job Satisfaction. Driscoll currently works full time at his manufacturing company, PID Analyzers, LLC based in Sandwich, MA and presents at least ten research papers at technical scientific conferences annually.

Driscoll attended Franklin Institute, Suffolk University, Boston University and Northeastern University. He is a physical chemist and has been awarded more than 45 US and Foreign patents as well as published over 140 technical papers and one book. Driscoll is a successful chemical entrepreneur whose innovations have earned him six Research & Development awards and is a founder of HNU PID Analyzers, Nova Biomedical and Sanvista Medical.

Headquartered in Sandwich, Massachusetts, PID Analyzers, LLC is a small instrumentation manufacturer that specializes in analytical and environmental monitoring systems for portable and fixed applications measuring low level hazardous chemicals and air pollutants. PID Analyzers, LLC sells their products worldwide and has offices in Europe and China.

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