Studying Animal Skulls with Jessie

June 2012 Jessie Atterholt is a PhD candidate at Cal in the Department of Integrative Biology.  She’s been volunteering with BASIS for two and a half years, inspiring first-grade students to love science through her passion for it. Her lesson, aptly named ‘You Are What You Eat, How Diet Shapes Teeth’, has been in circulation for the entirety of her […]

Finding Inspiration in Local Schools

April 2012 Soomin Jung learned about BASIS in her first year as an undergraduate and has been showing 3rd grade students the wonders of Oobleck and the states of matter ever since. Volunteering with BASIS has shown her how much quality science instruction is lacking in elementary schools and inspires her to go on in her education so that she […]