Want to volunteer to bring hands on learning to your area? Join the National Lab Day online community and share your expertise with local students!
National Lab Day is a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support (hubs) that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. By joining the National Lab Day effort, you can search requests for volunteers from the science community by geographic area and scientific discipline to find a group that needs your help. There may be a local science fair that needs judges, or a classroom teacher that wants help with an experiment down the street from your lab. You can also sign up as a scientist and indicate how you can help so that teachers looking for help will find you when they search the site.
The Biophysical Society encourages you to sign up. By volunteering, you can work together with educators and students to improve labs and discovery-based science experiences for students in grades 6-12. While National Lab Day opportunities are ongoing, there will be a week long celebration of this new collaboration with activities across the country in May 2010.
To sign up for National Lab Day, click here.
To watch a video on National Lab Day with President Obama and OSTP Director John Holdren, click here.