Outreach
The Bohart Museum has a variety of programs designed to engage people of all ages with the world of insects!
Recommended teacher resource for insect lesson plans
Organizations we have worked with over the years (partial list):
- AAUW (American Association of University Women) UC Davis Tech Trek camp
- Adult day programs - various
- Boy Scouts – various troops
- California Art Institute
- California Dept. of Food and Agriculture
- California State Fair
- Cal-SOAP (California Student Opportunity and Access Program)
- City of Davis- special needs youth, Loop-a-looza, Senior Center, Summer Camps
- College Making it Happen-Sac State-College fair for Sac. Area under-represented youth
- Cool Davis Event
- Crocker Art Museum
- Davis Art Center
- Davis Chamber of Commerce
- Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Carmichael- Nature Fest
- EPA Earth Day (Environmental Protection Agency) in Sacramento
- eSCI teacher workshop -science education for Sacramento area teachers (Bohart and MWFB)
- Explorit Science Center
- Future Farmers of America- Liberty Ranch High School program, Galt, CA
- Girl Scouts – Heart of Central California and various troops
- Homeschool Groups - various
- John Hopkins – Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
- John Muir National Historic Site
- Lindsay Wildlife Experience
- Loaves and Fishes
- Migrant Seasonal Head Start
- Mt Diablo State Park
- MOSAC (Museum of Science and Curiosity)
- Preschools (various)
- ProFarm Group
- Public Libraries (Cameron Park, Davis, Dixon, Esparto, Fairfield, Pollack Pines, Rio Vista, Sacramento, South Lake Tahoe, Suisun City, Vacaville, Vallejo, Winters, Woodland, Yolo, Zamora)
- Retirement communities (various)
- Roseville Utility Exploration Center
- Sacramento Children’s Museum
- Sacramento Earth Day
- Santa Cruz County Fair
- Schools (Alameda, Alameda, Benicia, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Clarksburg, Davis, East Oakland, El Dorado Hills, Elk Grove, Fairfield, Folsom, Granite Bay, Grass Valley, Knights Landing, Loomis, Martinez, Marysville, Napa, Natomas, Nevada City, Orangevale, Patterson, Piedmont, Rio Vista, Rocklin, Roseville, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Truckee, Visalia, Walnut Creek, West Sacramento, Woodland, Yuba City)
- Senator Darrell Steinberg’s Passport to Summer Youth Fair, Sacramento
- Shriner’s Hospital School Program
- Sierra College’s Dinosaur Festival
- Sacramento State - SIRC (Science In the River City)
- Sacramento Loaves & Fishes
- Solano County Fair
- Solano Youth Agriculture Day
- Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge–Walk on the Wildside Festival
- Tuleyome
- University Farm Circle
- US Forest Service
- Vacaville Museum
- West Sacramento Earth Day
- Woodland Community College
- World of Wonders Science Center- Lodi, CA
- Xerces Society (invertebrate conservation)
- Yolo Basin Foundation
- Yolo Capay Open Space Park
- Yolo County Fair
- Yolo County Office of Education
- Yolo Farm Connection Day–Yolo County Farm Bureau
University of California, Davis groups:
- 4-H Field Day (UCANR)
- Aggie Ambassadors
- Arboretum and Public Gardens
- Art Department
- Athletics Department
- Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program (BUSP)
- Biodiversity Museum Day Committee
- Cal Aggie Alumni Association, Parent and Family Programs
- Campus Recreation Youth Programs
- Career Discovery Groups
- Center for Plant Diversity
- Chemistry Department NSF grant outreach component
- UC Davis Children’s Hospital
- College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
- COSMOS Program
- Cross Cultural Center family events: Pow-wow, La Gran Tardeada, Black Family Day
- Early Childhood Lab School
- Engineering Department -STEM for Girls
- Design Department
- Early Academic Outreach Program- EAOP
- Education Dept – course EDU 142 and summer camps
- Extension–International Program
- Graduate Student Association
- Guardian Scholars
- Honey and Pollination Center
- Internship and Career Center
- Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
- John Muir Institute
- Law School
- LEADS Program through Department of Graduate Studies
- Master Gardeners (various programs)
- Math and Science Teaching Program (MAST)
- MIND Institute
- Native American Academic Student Success Center
- Picnic Day
- REACH IGERT Center for Population Biology
- School of Veterinary Medicine Dog N’Jog event and a student club
- Society for Conservation Biology
- Student Family Housing
- Sustainability Conference
- TODS/TOCS-Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day, now Take Our Children to Work Day
- Transfer Family Orientation
- Whole Earth Festival
- Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology Dept. – WFC 100