Editing Harry Kroto (section)

===Educational outreach and public service===

In 1995, he jointly set up the [[Vega Science Trust]], a UK educational charity that created high quality science films including lectures and interviews with Nobel Laureates, discussion programmes, careers and teaching resources for TV and Internet Broadcast. Vega produced over 280 programmes, that streamed for free from the Vega website which acted as a TV science channel. The trust closed in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vega Science Trust to Close|url=http://www.vega.org.uk/news/details/8|publisher=The Vega Science Trust|access-date=2 May 2016}}</ref>
[[File:Sir Harold Kroto at CSICON 2011.JPG|thumb|upright|Sir Harold Kroto at [[CSICon]] 2011]]

In 2009, Kroto spearheaded the development of a second science education initiative, [[Geoset]].<ref name="GEOSET home">{{Cite web|url=https://geoset.fsu.edu/|title=GEOSET Studio|website=geoset.fsu.edu}}</ref> Short for the Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering and Technology, GEOSET is an ever-growing online cache of recorded teaching modules that are freely downloadable to educators and the public. The program aims to increase knowledge of the sciences by creating a global repository of educational videos and presentations from leading universities and institutions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geoset.fsu.edu/Productions/Opening-Minds-2013|title=5 days of opening minds (2013)}}</ref>

In 2003, prior to the Blair/Bush [[2003 invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]] on the pretext that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, Kroto initiated and organised the publication of a letter to be signed by a dozen UK Nobel Laureates and published in ''The Times''.  It was composed by his friend the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate the late [[Joseph Rotblat|Sir Joseph Rotblat]] and published in ''The Times'' on 15 February 2003.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nobel laureates against the war|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/nobel-laureates-against-the-war-6cxlwdpqzs3|newspaper=[[The Times]]|access-date=8 September 2014|date=2003-02-15|last1=Others|first1=From Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat}}</ref>

He wrote a set of articles, mostly opinion pieces, from 2002 to 2003 for the [[Times Higher Education Supplement]], a weekly UK publication.<ref>{{cite web|title=Harry Kroto|work=Times Higher Education|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/harry-kroto/177494.article|access-date=6 September 2014|date=2003-06-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Abstracts of Kroto's Times Higher Education Articles|url=http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/author/times-higher-education-supplement-2003/harry-kroto/|access-date=6 September 2014}}</ref>

From 2002 to 2004, Kroto served as president of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]].<ref>[http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/History/rscpresidents/1980toPD.asp RSC Presidents 1980 to Present Day]. Rsc.org. Retrieved 25 December 2011.</ref> In 2004, he was appointed to the [[Francis Eppes]] Professorship in the chemistry department at Florida State University, carrying out research in [[nanoscience]] and [[nanotechnology]].<ref>{{cite web|title=FSU Profile|url=http://www.fsu.edu/profiles/kroto/|access-date=29 January 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330064245/http://fsu.edu/profiles/kroto/|archive-date=30 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He spoke at [[Auburn University]] on 29 April 2010, and at the [[James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy]] at [[Rice University]] with [[Robert Curl]] on 13 October 2010.<ref>[http://bakerinstitute.org/events/civic-scientist-lecture-sir-harry-w.-kroto-ph.d.-and-robert-f.-curl-jr.-ph.d James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University | Events | Civic Scientist Lecture – Robert F. Curl Jr., Ph.D., and Sir Harry W. Kroto, Ph.D] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014021011/http://bakerinstitute.org/events/civic-scientist-lecture-sir-harry-w.-kroto-ph.d.-and-robert-f.-curl-jr.-ph.d |date=14 October 2010 }}. Bakerinstitute.org (13 October 2010). Retrieved 25 December 2011.</ref>

In October 2010 Kroto participated in the [[USA Science and Engineering Festival]]'s Lunch with a Laureate program where middle and high school students had the opportunity to engage in an informal conversation with a Nobel Prize–winning scientist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2010festival/schoolprograms/lunchwithalaureate |title=Lunch with a Laureate |access-date=2010-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421005023/http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2010festival/schoolprograms/lunchwithalaureate |archive-date=21 April 2010}}. usasciencefestival.org</ref>

He spoke at [[Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala|Mahatma Gandhi University]], at [[Kottayam]], in [[Kerala]], India in January 2011, where he was an 'Erudite' special invited lecturer of the Government of Kerala, from 5 to 11 January 2011.<ref>[http://mgu.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=555&Itemid=719 Erudite]. Mgu.ac.in. Retrieved 25 December 2011.</ref>

Kroto spoke at [[CSICon]] 2011,<ref>{{cite web|title=SCIcon 2011 Speakers |url=http://csiconference.org/speakers#harold_kroto |access-date=12 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414212052/http://csiconference.org/speakers |archive-date=14 April 2012 }}</ref> a convention "dedicated to scientific inquiry and critical thinking" organized by the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] in association with ''[[Skeptical Inquirer]]'' magazine and the [[Center for Inquiry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=CSIcon Official Site|url=http://csiconference.org/|access-date=12 April 2012}}</ref>
He also delivered the IPhO 2012 lecture at the International Physics Olympiad held in Estonia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uttv.ee/naita?id=12604|title=UTTV|website=www.uttv.ee}}</ref>

In 2014, Kroto spoke at the [[Starmus Festival]] in the Canary Islands, delivering a lecture about his life in science, chemistry, and design.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Harold Kroto and David Eicher join Starmus Festival Board|url=http://www.starmus.com/harlod_eincher/|publisher=STARMUS Festival|access-date=2 May 2016}}</ref>