Outreach Opportunity Alerts
Outreach Opportunity Alerts connect members of the Caltech community with educational outreach opportunities in the Pasadena community and beyond for which they can volunteer. They are published monthly.
To join the newsletter mailing list for Outreach Opportunity Alerts, members of the Caltech community can sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/caltech/caltech-outreach-opportunity-alert-signup or email Kitty Cahalan, kcahalan@caltech.edu. Please give Kitty your name, email address, Caltech affiliation (undergraduate, graduate student, postdoc, faculty or staff) and department, option or research group.
June 2025
Summer is upon us! Commencement is almost here! In the local K-12 community, seniors are off to new adventures, 5th and 8th graders are promoting to new schools, and teachers are breathing a sigh of relief that another year - a particularly challenging year, this time - is behind us. Outreach moves to summer programming, with high school research programs and campus tours on the horizon. We welcome those of you who've been thinking about outreach but haven't had a minute between classes and TAing and research to plan. Make an appointment with us (kcahalan@caltech.edu) so we can find out how to help you find a good fit for the summer or next year!
Setting Stars: Host a Space-Themed Activity
Setting Stars, a new local non-profit focused on bringing more members of the public, including senior citizens, into citizen science efforts to find undiscovered exoplanets, is hosting a kick-off event for the public on Sunday, July 20 at their offices in Pasadena. If you would like to present a space-related demonstration or activity, or help Setting Stars with theirs, see below for how to get involved!
Date: Sunday July 20Time: 1 - 5 PM
Location: 301 E Colorado Blvd, Suite 100 (Masterprep Academy)
Desired services: helping facilitate exoplanet/astronomy related activities for participants
Expertise: knowledge of exoplanets or just general passion for astronomy, interest in interacting with the public
Contact: Alec English, email (alecenglish@settingstars.org) or cell (626-616-8286) is fine
CTLO Outreach Programs
Lab Tours
We give lots of tours over the summer to high school and community college groups! If you are ever willing to host a short (15-20 minute) tour of your lab for a group visiting campus, please contact Kitty Cahalan at kcahalan@caltech.edu.
STEM Education and Outreach Club
Contact club president Alexis Cho at adcho@caltech.edu or sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/OutreachClub
If you're interested in outreach, or want to know more, fill out this form (https://tinyurl.com/CTLOOutreachForm), and we will contact you to talk about the programs we have, or discuss your ideas.
Tutor Veterans at PCC
PCC is seeking volunteers who would like to tutor Veterans for mostly STEM topics. Most tutors work one-on-one with a student, with occasional tutor groups of two students. Tutors generally meet with their students once a week for an hour or two, depending on the student's needs and the tutor's availability, usually on Caltech's campus.
If interested, please contact Joseph Amador, VRC Success Coach, at jamador2@pasadena.edu
We Don't Just Do STEM Outreach!
We know that Caltech has people doing their studies and research in areas that are not considered STEM fields, and we'd love to have those of you this applies to do outreach, too! We also know all our students, staff and faculty have many other talents - are you an artist, photographer, writer, actor, dancer, athlete, musician? Do you have a hobby you'd like to share with people in our community? We can do outreach with that, too!
Please let Kitty Cahalan (kcahalan@caltech.edu) know if you're interested!
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Caltech Educational Outreach Office's programs run on volunteers! If you would like to join any of our programs, or if you have a program of your own that you'd like to bring to K-12 students, contact Kitty Cahalan, Assistant Director of Educational Outreach, at 626-395-2468 or kcahalan@caltech.edu.