SEP Is Cost-effective
Through SEP’s programs, more than 21,000 students/year have access to enriched science learning opportunities – at a per student cost of less than $53.
All of SEP’s programs are offered free-of-charge to the teachers and students of San Francisco’s public schools. To do this, SEP must annually raise more than $1,000,000. Every donation brings us closer to that goal and helps to make this important work possible.
See What Your Donation Can Do!
Take a look at some of the ways your donations are creating science learning opportunities for San Francisco students!
The information below changes every few seconds to highlight another program.
Classroom-based Partnerships
An on-going science field trip without leaving school.
Classroom Based Partnerships provide:
- Sustained contact between K-12 students and scientist role models
- Professional development for teachers and scientists
Each year, classroom Based Partnerships involve more than:
- 3000 students
- 100 teachers
- 170 scientists
Cost for Classroom Based Partnerships:
- $48/student ($1400/classroom)
High School Internship Program
A life-changing summer experience that puts students firmly on the path to college and a better future.
The High School Internship Program Provides:
- summer internships for 20 rising seniors
Cost for Internship Program:
- $6350/student
Cost is all-inclusive of student stipends, SEP staff support, and program activity costs
Daly Ralston Resource Center
The Daly Ralston Resource Center provides:
- Unlimited access to a lending library of science materials to support hands-on science teaching and learning
- Informal lesson coaching
- Opportunities for more than 16,000 students per year to learn science with Resource Center Materials
Cost of Resource Center
- $5.75/student ($175/classroom)
Courses, Seminars & Workshops
SEP Courses, Seminars and Workshops provide:
- Innovative science learning opportunities for K-12 teachers that:
- Help teachers learn rigorous science content
- Model research-based science teaching pedagogies that promote student learning
- Help teachers keep abreast of current research developments
- Prepare scientists to be better communicators of science
- Involve more than 175 K-12 teachers and 13 Scientists/year
Cost of Courses, Seminars and Workshops
- $1200/teacher
Disposable Gloves for the Resource Center
Disposable gloves allow:
- students to feel the difference between an emphysemic lung and a health lung
Cost for disposable gloves:
- $79/case
(Resource Center uses 20-25 cases/year)
Consumable Supplies for a Partnership Team
Investigative science requires supplies. Each partnership team receives a budget for consumable materials – so that lessons are not unduly limited by the cost of materials.
Cost of Consumable Supplies:
- $100/team ($2.50/student)
for four lessons
Trip to a College Campus
Many High School Interns have never been to an undergraduate campus. We provide a tour to UC Davis so that they may start to envision themselves as undergraduates.
Cost of the trip:
- $1200
Be Creative!
SEP will gladly accept in-kind donations such as laboratory supplies to donate to teachers, as well as gift cards to restaurants & businesses to provide as thank you gifts to our volunteers.
As part of UCSF, SEP is a 501(c)3 non-profit. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Please let us know if your company participates in a matching gift program so that we can extend the benefit of your generosity.
If you are interested in making a donation to SEP, please email Felix Aburto, or call him at (415) 514-0587.