Community Outreach

"Tips of the Trade" Commuter Workshops (May 2016)

Hosted by Walk Bike Glendale in partnership with Bikecar101 sponsored by Metro

make animated gifs like this at MakeaGif

Spring 2016 CCED THEME "The Great Indoors"

"I (heart) Science Day" Friday, February 19, 2016

"I'm Going To College Day" Friday, March 11, 2016 AND Friday, April 22, 2016

EYH Conference Saturday, April 30, 2016

Fall 2015 National Chemistry Week THEME "Chemistry Colors Our World"

ChemExpo at Miramar College - Saturday October 24, 2015

"Tales of Lab Safety" - October 20, 2015

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/acs-webinars/program-in-a-box/pib-on-demand/lab-safety.html

VAAS Family Science Night - November 19, 2015

Spring 2015 Chemists Celebrate Earth Day (CCED)

THEME “Climate Science – More Than Just A Weather Report!”

"I'm going to college" day at CSUN, Friday, April 24th summarized here.

Jumpstart For A Day, Saturday, April 25th

Draw a Scientist Test from Kayla Kaiser on Vimeo.

Fall 2014 NCW THEME  "The Sweet Side of Chemistry—Candy" see here for procedure and visual aids

"Speaking Simply" Webinar: Tues. Oct. 7, 2014

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/acs-webinars/program-in-a-box/pib-on-demand/communicating-science.html

Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences (VAAS) Family Science Night - November 13, 2014

Spring 2012 Manuel A. Salinas Creative Arts Elementary School (San Bernardino)

W.M. Keck Science Department made Green Cosmetics with 200 5th grade students

CCED THEME "It's Easy Being Green" see Potions and Lotions 2012 for our recipes.

https://www.cmc.edu/news/potions-lotions-visiting-professor-kayla-kaiser-and-several-of-her-w-m-keck-science-department-students-give-a-creative-chemistry-lesson-to-nearly-100-fifth-graders

Fall 2011 ChemExpo (San Diego)

http://media.scrippscollege.edu/press-releases/students/hands-on-chemistry Chemistry of Pain Relievers

NCW THEME "Chemistry: Our Health, Our Future" see IYC NCW NSAIDs ChemExpo 2011 for our poster.

Fall 2009 University of California (Riverside) hosted students from Salinas Elementary School (San Bernardino)

http://www.igert.org/highlights/250

THEME "Firestarter: The Chemistry of Combustion" see FirestartersDemo 2009 for our guiding questions.

*04/09/2013* idea to add... Why does a burner (hydrocarbon) burn hotter than a lit match (cellulose)? What are the chemical reactions? What are the products? Why does forest fire risk increase when the humidity is low?

Fall 2008 - Spring 2009

https://sites.google.com/site/mrskaylakaiser/pastevents

THEME "Rainbow Connection: The Chemistry of Color"

The following is an excerpt from a report entitled Key Science and Engineering Indicators – National Science Board, 2012 which I found on the website http://www.trianglecoalition.org/resources.  Key findings from Chapter 7 entitled "Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding" are re posted from here http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/c7/c7h.htm.

The Internet is the main source of information for learning about specific scientific issues such as global climate change and biotechnology.

• • Americans are now about equally likely to rely on the Internet as on television as their primary source of general science and technology (S&T) information.

Americans have consistently expressed interest in S&T, with 41% reporting they were "very interested" and 50% reporting they were "moderately interested" in new scientific discoveries.

• • However, Americans also express similar or higher levels of interest in a range of other news topics.

  • On average, Europeans appear to express lower levels of public interest in "new scientific discoveries and technological developments" relative to Americans, although there is considerable variation among different European countries.

Many Americans continue to give multiple incorrect answers to questions about basic factual knowledge of science or the scientific inquiry process. In the United States, levels of factual knowledge of science have been stable for more than a decade.

• • Americans' factual knowledge of science is positively related to their formal education level and the number of science and math courses they have taken. Younger generations also exhibit higher levels of factual knowledge about science than older generations.

Basically, the National Science Foundation recommends to avoid pseudoscience and find a grounded perspective on the web.  On issues of nanotechnology, climate change, nuclear power, stem cell research, cloning, evolution, genetically modified food, animal research, we as scientists should do a better job of providing educational materials on the internet for the general public to access.  

Not only do we promote electronic dialogue with the public via this site, but we commit to community outreach.  Recently we attended a Car Wash at Burbank, CA American Legion to support http://www.ride2recovery.com/.  

We participate in community events such as this that combine: 

• • leadership development (the Young Marines were actually washing the cars)

  • civic pride (everyone enjoyed waving American flags to passing cars)

  • support of veterans (the Ride 2 Recovery gives riders support for an EPIC ride with peers and peer leaders)

  • promoting health (group cycling leads to fitness and camaraderie-building mental and physical benefits)

  • cycling (can accommodate myriad configurations to accommodate injured athletes and former soldiers)

  • community (veterans connected with scouts and locals who stopped by to support a good cause)