High School STEM Days
High School STEM Days (Invite Only) are a once-a-month event for local public high school students to visit the Lab. Currently, only schools in Alameda and West Contra Costa public school districts are eligible to attend and are invite-only. This event will be a chance for students and school representatives to have an opportunity to tour Berkeley Lab, network with Lab employees, and participate in job shadowing. The main goal of this event is to share what life in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and STEM-adjacent professions are like and learn more about summer programs and high school internships for students at Berkeley Lab.
Although we are currently invite-only, we are hoping to bring back public visits in the future. Please join our newsletter to get updates on when we will have public openings for high school visits.
Tours
Facilities at Berkeley Lab support the research of scientists across the world. During STEM Day visits, students have an opportunity to see these spaces up close through tours with staff members.
Exploring STEM Areas
Our STEM Areas (Energy Technology, Bioscience, Energy, Physical, Computing, and Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Operations Teams give small group tours and support job shadowing activities throughout the day. Each STEM Day focuses on one or two areas and user facilities.
Job Shadowing
During visits, students are separated into smaller groups where they have the chance to interact directly with staff from the research and operations areas of Berkeley Lab.
Career Panels
When time permits, we often hold career panels to share perspectives of STEM and STEM-adjacent personnel. Students have the opportunity to hear about various career pathways at the Lab.
Workshops and Networking
All STEM days include an opportunity to learn about Department of Energy programs from high school through career. Spring workshops focus on applications for Berkeley Lab, DOE-funded high school programs: Quantum Computing, Mathematics and Physics Camp (QCaMP), and Interdisciplinary Pathways to Machine Learning and Data Science (IPMLDS). Sessions also include an introduction to undergraduate internships.
Team Science
STEM Days are in partnership with our employee resource groups (ERGs), scientific, and operations areas. They contribute their time to hosting, speaking on panels, job shadowing, supporting workshops, and much more. These Lab-wide efforts are an example of our commitment to stewardship in science.
Are you a Berkeley Lab employee interested in participating in STEM Days? Fill out this form.
Are you an educator at a public school in the East Bay? Fill out this form to share your interest.