The science department strives to help students:

• Realize that science is fascinating, fun, and rewarding
• Understand that scientific discovery is an ongoing, ever broadening, self-correcting search for answers, and that any one discovery leads to further questions and experimentation rather than an absolute or ultimate truth
• Appreciate how the cooperative nature of the current scientific enterprise works and be able to make clear judgments regarding their roles in the today's technological and competitive world
• Learn the fundamental facts, concepts, and laboratory and reasoning skills which are basic to further formal study in the individual scientific disciplines.