When groups of people come together and pool their resources, great things can be accomplished flinging humans onto the Moon comes to mind. In the US, the National Science Foundation is a factory of great things. It guides billions of tax dollars into university research projects each year in 2015, $7.344 billion to be exact. And since science costs money, one unhappy necessity of the academic lifestyle is securing funding to keep the lights on and the lab running. Give a kid a grant-writing kit to go with their chemistry set for Christmas. See if they play with it. NSF grants are the lifeblood of many fields of science.
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