City of Berkeley and Bayer Corporation - Bayer Healthcare ...

suppoRt foR BeRkeley puBlIC sChools
science Curriculum Development for grades k–8
CommunIty suppoRt
“. . . to encourage basic education in areas related to biotechnology.”
A qualified workforce—and community understanding and support of biotech and
other science industries—is crucial to Bayer’s future success. For this reason the
company has a longstanding global commitment to science education. Through the
Development Agreement, Bayer agreed to support science education with a thirty-year
grant of $10,000 annually (with a consumer price index adjustment each year), payable
to the Berkeley Public Education Foundation.
In 2009, the Foundation again applied Bayer funds to two programs that systemically
strengthen science education in local schools.
The first sent all of Berkeley’s more than 500 fifth graders to the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, as a key component of a District-wide elementary school science
curriculum. The half-day workshop with Lab scientists engaged students in hands-on
science activities and provided tours of the Lab’s extensive facilities.
Bayer funds also went once again to Community Resources for Science, which trains
teachers at all Berkeley elementary schools in how to teach science most effectively, and
provides them resources to enrich their teaching and fascinate students with hands-on
studies of metals, gases, birth, growth, and other key science concepts.
sponsorship of local science fairs
The DA requires Bayer to provide annual support for middle school science fairs,
primarily to supply materials and other necessities for students in financial need.
Berkeley schools, however, curtailed science fairs several years ago. The Berkeley Public
Education Foundation continues to hold in reserve funds paid by Bayer through 2007
for this purpose, and will release them at such time as science fairs are revived. Bayer
will resume annual payments for science fairs at that time.
Payments Mandated by the Development Agreement
paid 2009 paid to
kindergarten through grade 8
science education—G.II.F $15,500 Berkeley Public Education Foundation
local science fairs—G.II.C
amount not specified 0 Berkeley Public Education Foundation
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