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MUSC gives tomorrow's scientists head start today South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics participants along with their teacher, Dr. George Tempel, back center. They're tomorrow's scientists, South Carolina's best and brightest high school students, and this summer they discovered science can be fun.    They attended the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics   “We taught them how to measure volumes, use pipettes, and extract DNA,” said MUSC professor of physiology George Tempel, Ph.D. “They learned how to pour gel and use electrophoresis to compare samples. They were doing it.”   Tempel was among about 20 faculty from South Carolina colleges and universities, and from industry and government, who mentored the rising ninth and tenth graders through three week-long sessions of enriched curriculum focusing on math and science.   “Our aim was to excite them with the fun of science,” Tempel said. He described one project in which a fictitious “crime” was committed and, as forensic scientists, the students collected, examined and evaluated DNA evidence to identify the primary suspect.   “It's our dean's (Rosalie Crouch, Ph.D., College of Graduate Studies) vision to work with the public schools to create the scientists of tomorrow,” Tempel said. This was Tempel's fourth year as a Governor's School faculty member.