Science Outreach

Reed College's Science Outreach program creates partnerships between Reed College and local public schools to provide public school students with engaging, hands-on, inquiry-based science experiences, every week! Since 2018, the Science Outreach program has grown to include Computer Science & Math Outreach programs as well. Our programs rely on the transformative power of community-based learning to engage Reed undergraduates with students and teachers in the Portland community. Along the way, public school students gain exposure to rigorous, NGSS-aligned inquiry lessons and the confidence to dive into STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) fields head-first. Likewise, Reed undergraduates represent the College by sharing time and resources with the greater Portland area as well as they gain experience as teacher leaders through a significant amount of in-classroom teaching time.