Subject: Biology Outreach and Inclusion Program (BOIP)

Description: The Biology Outreach and Inclusion Program (BOIP) was established with the mission to:

1. Establish an enduring outreach relationship between the biology department and schools in our local communities.

2. Help nurture an excitement for inquiry-based science, as well as an understanding of all the different things that it means to be a “scientist.”

3. Serve public schools located in the local Charlottesville and Central Virginia area.

4. Focus specifically on outreach to elementary, middle, and high school students, as well as community members who are not involved in academia.

5. Create an outreach curriculum that will be easy to conduct and pass on to future generations of biology volunteers.

6. Build infrastructure to support ongoing outreach projects, as well provide the opportunity for students/faculty to develop their own outreach projects.

Through this listserv BOIP will communicate between executive members and volunteers to organize outreach curriculum and events.