Community Resources for Science

Celebrate Earth Week in SF with live jazz and local impact (you're invited!): Get your tickets today! https://luma.com/vhfo2hb4 Join CRS staff and board members, educators, scientists, and community members for an evening of meaningful impact, great drinks, and phenomenal live music.

What kind of experiments are Berkeley Unified School District middle schoolers designing? This session of Be A Scientist, students are asking these questions:

🥔What do pill bugs eat?
💎What liquids create the best crystals?
🎶What kind of music helps lentil seeds grow?
🌉What's the best way to design a bridge?
🫟Which detergent is the best at removing stains?

We love seeing Berkeley 7th graders testing their ideas and finding scientific solutions to questions they have in the lab, in nature, and at home. We can't wait to see where these experiments lead them!

Congratulations to CRS Advisory Council Member, Nancy Wright, on your new role as Primary Director of the California Association of Science Educators Board! We look forward to supporting you in bringing your vision for CASE to life!

Congrats to the newly elected 2025-2027 Board of Directors!
https://cascience.org/page/electionsannouncement

The entire CRS network-- UC Berkeley volunteers, STEM professionals, teachers, and staff-- is this Spring! We are building partnerships around , middle schoolers are conducting experiments and learning about Berkeley Lab research discoveries, Kindergarteners are connecting stories with engineering concepts, and elementary students are imagining their bright futures in STEM!

with us when you donate https://tinyurl.com/3spu84e7 and make a direct impact on science learning in East Bay schools!

For our full Spring newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/4jdzenwj

Thank you FlutterBee for donating dozens of books from the Space Voyager series! These books are blasting off to elementary classroom libraries, where students can discover all about our solar system through story! 🚀👩‍🚀🪐🌎

Thank you Nomad Press for donating more than 1200 books all about the science of different environments, the water cycle, and engineering concepts! We're excited to send these into elementary classrooms libraries, where students can discover science fun through story, and become a "Biome Explorer" 🌳☀️🌨

Thank you to our newest Curiosity Level Sponsor, the Berkeley Center for Innovation in Vision and Optics, CIVO! Your generous gift AND the phenomenal Cal outreach teams from Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science leading students in vision science explorations will bring many smiles to science classrooms in the new year!

Thank you to our newest Discovery Level Sponsor, Cytokinetics! Your support will connect middle school students with STEM mentors and role models to support them in science and engineering explorations! Congratulations to Cytokinetics employees who are visiting classrooms this year through our Bay Area Scientists Inspiring Students program! With sponsorship and employee outreach, the Cytokinetics team is bringing science joy and opportunity to schools. Thank you for your partnership!

Thank you to the engineer outreach team with Ashrae Golden Gate Chapter! Thank you for helping 4th graders in Oakland Unified School District explore the inner workings of electric motors and for sharing your inspiring pathways into careers!

Congrats to our fellow educators and partners in Sacramento this past weekend at the 2024 California Association of Science Educators Conference for the many inspirational workshops and collaboration time! We appreciate and celebrate you!🎉