Farajidavar also asked his advisor if he could accompany him to an
NSF workshop to learn the ins and outs of
grant writing and meet the program
officers.
Wagener had years to develop his training modules while at Dow, but when he left the world of the large corporation, he didn't think he'd use these tools again — that is, until he met Katherine Covert, a program
officer for educational
grants at the National Science Foundation (
NSF).