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Career Awareness and Resource Education Program (CARE)

CARE is a community outreach program offered by the NIST Boulder Laboratories to promote math and science awareness in the 4th through 12th grades and shows teachers, students, and parents that careers in science and math are fun and within the reach of many students.

Scientists and engineers give presentations to children in the classroom and at the Boulder Laboratories. In addition, educational materials such as publications, videos and science kits are loaned to teachers for classroom use.

All CARE services are free of charge.

NIST staff members provide 40- to 50-minute talks in the classroom or at the NIST laboratory. Most talks are adapted to meet teachers' needs. Please note that the appropriate grade levels for presentations are listed in parentheses beside the topics - (E) 4th-6th grades, (M) 7th-9th grades, (H) 10th-12th grades.

Science presentations are limited to a 40-mile radius of Boulder, Colorado.

Science Presentations

  • How Can We Tell If an Earthquake Is Coming or If the Continent Is Moving? (M,H)
  • Solar Activity (E,M,H)
  • What Happens When the Earth Shakes? (M,H)
  • Ins and Outs of Microwaves (E,M)
  • Cryogenics--The Magic of Supercold Temperatures! (E,M,H)
  • Optics and Lasers (E,M,H)
  • Chaos at the Carnival (H)
  • Women in Math and Science (M)
  • Special Group Presentations (E,M,H)
  • Lab Tours (M,H) (Groups of 12 or less)
  • Shadow Student Visits (H)
  • Career Talks (M,H)

Videos

All videos are 30 minutes. Video loans and postage both ways are free. Please request by video title.

  • Chaos
  • Cryogenics
  • Lasers
  • Robotics
  • Solar Activity
  • The Physics of Basketball
  • Who CAREs About Science

Science Kits

Science kits are loaned to teachers for use in classrooms. Kits must be picked up and returned by a teacher. These kits are not mailed or shipped.

  • Materials Science Kit (M,H)
  • Solar Activity Kit (E,M)
  • Optics and Lasers Kit (E,M,H)
  • Cryogenics Kit (E,M,H)
  • Microwaves Kit (E,M)

For program information or to reserve materials, contact Phyllis Wright at 303-497-3244. Voice mail is available to take out-of-hours requests. Please have the following information ready:

Your name
Your school's name, address, and telephone number
Your class size and grade level of students
CARE topic or number that you want
First and second date and time choices
Times you can be reached

The CARE Program is located in Building 1, Room 4006. The mailing address is:

Career Awareness and Resource Education (CARE)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
325 Broadway - 346.16
Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328

See also: A-Z Subject Index (Boulder), General Information (Boulder), NIST Boulder Laboratories Homepage, What NIST Does, Products and Services, NIST Home Page

Created: Aug. 24, 2000
Last updated: Oct 24, 2001
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