CE-CERT’s designed opportunities that will result in positive exposure for your group, excite young students to pursue careers in engineering and environmental sustainability, and improve their presentation skills, policy awareness, and critical thinking of students.
General Community Engagement Opportunities
University of California, Riverside serves the public through providing education, conducting research and informing the nation and world on economic, social, cultural, and environmental issues. CE-CERT understands that public knowledge is crucial to addressing some of the major issues that our nation faces. Some of the events we hold to help inform the public include:
- Annual STEP Conference: 300 high school students get an afternoon of hands-on experience in the laboratory.
- STEM Exploration Day at UCR: Outreach event to promote science and mathematics to first generation college students.
- Annual Earth Day: UCR campus wide effort to promote and educate sustainability.
- Inspire Her Mind: Sophomore RUSD female students learn the ways math and science impact the world around them.
- STEP Teacher Conference: STEM K-12 teachers learn how to engage their students with real-world and practical demonstrations.