Northern CA PPSR Projects 1

East Bay Academy for Young Scientists (EBAYS)

• Organization Name

  Lawrence Hall of Science
• Project Website

  http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/ays/index.html
• Organization Website

  http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/
• Partners

  N / A
• Contact Name

  Kevin Cuff, Program Director
• Contact Email

  kcuff@berkeley.edu, ebays@berkeley.edu
• Contact Phone

  (510) 642-7448
• Other Contact Information

  Tony Marks-Block — Program Coordinator, tony.mb@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-7491

  Regina Chagolla — Program Coordinator, rchagolla@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-7491

• Project Purpose (taken from project materials)

  • Develop critical thinking skills through scientific research and exploration within low income communities of color in the cities of Oakland, Richmond, Emeryville, and San Francisco, California.
  • Research and curriculum addresses environmental quality - soil, water and air - within the schools and communities where we work and gives young scientists access to information technologies to enhance data collection and understanding of the world around them.
• Participant Activities

  Participant activities include:

  • After school program: a year long mini-course presented at elementary, middle school, high school and community center sites by community and UC Berkeley science instructors.
  • Summer enrichment activities such as: collective investigations of water quality of local estuaries and lakes; presentations by professionals of diverse ethnic backgrounds; and excursions to local firms whose focus is IT and/or environmental science related activities.
  • An externship/internship component which provides students with further opportunities to learn and apply scientific research methodologies and IT skills in professional settings.
• Data Entry

  • Collection Kits
  • Unknown
• Other Participant Activities

  Youth participants can join other LHS programs or connect research activities to ongoing community initiatives.

• System Studied

  • Water Quality
  • Air Quality
  • Pollution Clean-up or Monitoring
  • Other (see Notes)
• Geographic Scope

  Regional
• Region

  Northern California
• Location

  Communities in and around the Bay Area
• Location - Map

  1 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, CA 94720
• Time Commitment

  • Monthly
  • Specific dates (see Other Information below)
  • Unknown
• Volunteer Qualifications

  Primary participants are high school students in or near Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley, CA. Students interested in participating must fill out an online application: http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/ays/join.html

• Volunteer Training

  As part of participation, The EBAYS program provides, "out-of-school yet well structured and academically rigorous activities that facilitate the development of important skills that will benefit them in the future. The program uses inquiry based, hands-on learning activities to increase students understanding of key IT, earth science, and physical science concepts. The program also includes an important community based air and water quality research component to provide the students with real world, project based scientific inquiry. In this context, the students can apply newly acquired conceptual understandings and skills. In this way the program activities help foster both increased understanding of important scientific concepts, as well as greater appreciation of how scientific research contributes to addressing issues relevant to students' lives."

• Cost to Participant

  N / A
• How will the findings be used?

  reports and scientific publications produced using project data are published on the project's website: http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/ays/research.html

• Other Information

  In additional to scientific research and community advocacy outcomes, EBAYS also measures educational and affective impacts of the program. See http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/ays/aboutus.html for more informaion.

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• last update:

  2/6/13