D3000: Bringing passion for insects to K-12 classrooms with UCR Entomology Outreach

The University of California, Riverside highly values bringing entomology to students in kindergarten through grade twelve, pushing to do at least three events a month. The program brings live insects and curated displays as well as a variety of learning activities. It runs on both graduate and undergraduate student volunteers, as well as insect keepers and a coordinator. The department has also created a brand new class this year titled “Outreach and Science Communication in Entomology” to educate our entomology undergraduate students on the history of science communication (scicomm), different methods of outreach and scicomm, and how to become more effective science communicators.