2024-04-14T13:29:25-07:00 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 920368946 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCIENCE OUTREACH UNIV 840 DOWNEY WAY LJS 152 Los Angeles CA 90089 Emily Ly Funding Coordinator 4086037083 2024-04-14 Emily Ly 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z University of Southern California Credit Union X https://www.uscscienceoutreach.org/ X X Student run non-profit organization 15297 X 4800 0 9500 0 0 0 0 0 997 125 872 0 0 0 0 15172 0 0 0 0 0 2652 6027 8679 6493 17548 0 24041 17548 24041 0 0 0 0 17548 24041 0 0 17548 24041 At the center of SCience Outreach's mission is the desire to provide quality science education at no cost to our local community. We provide experiment materials, equipment, lesson plans, and even clean-up materials to every student. We hope to continue providing these unique lessons to students who otherwise would have no exposure to formal science education until the fourth grade. One of the most important aspects of SCience Outreach is the irreplaceable relationship between the college student volunteers, whom we call SCouts and our junior scientists. Each SCout will work more closely with the same three to four students to demonstrate experiments, answer questions, and be a close mentor to these elementary school students. This close relationship empowers confidence in the junior scientists' learning abilities and a potential interest in STEM in the future. Moreover, our junior scientists trust SCouts to ask questions about science and about their experience within the field. Science Outreach was founded in 2011 and continues to fulfill the goal of providing quality science education at no cost to our partnering schools. We just finished our expansion into first grade in 2020. This allowed us to create unique experiments for all different grade levels this year. Prior to this, first and second grade classes would share experiments. This expansion allowed for a more meaningful experience for our first grade junior scientists and further strengthened our commitment to educating all three grade levels before they are formally introduced to the science curriculum in the fourth grade. In this past fiscal year alone, we have been able to observe the impact SCience Outreach has on our local community. In our partnering schools in the LAUSD, we have taught and formed relationships with over 400 students. In addition, our end of the year science fair had over 500 attendees. We get feedback from both our junior scientists and our Scouts (college student volunteers). The feedback is overwhelmingly positive and both parties are excited to continue their journey with our organization. 0 0 0 Simardeep Singh President 2022-2023 10 0 0 0 Daniel Nicolle President 2022-2023 10 0 0 0 Nina Ferrer Vice President of Operations 2022-2023 8 0 0 0 Swapnika Raola Treasurer 8 0 0 0 Susumu Takahashi Faculty Advisor 1 0 0 0 Rajyk Bhala President 2023-2024 10 0 0 0 Jackie Wu President 2023-2024 10 0 0 0 Tiffany Wong Vice President of Externals 2023-2024 8 0 0 0 Imani Musembi Vice President of Operations (2023-2024) 8 0 0 0 Kristina Vu Treasurer 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CA Natalie Boone 840 DOWNEY WAY LJS 152 Los Angeles CA 90089 5597315334 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 NONE NONE 1 X 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Schedule E, Part I, Line 3 Our website focuses on our mission on expanding science knowledge to primary school students before they are formally exposed to it. There is no official nondiscriminatory policy published on the website. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 The other expenses we noted on this line are dedicated to the materials bought to carry out the activities of our volunteer/community group. We go to local elementary schools and teach kids science through science experiments. The experiments are planned for the entire year ahead of time. Therefore, we know what materials to buy and budget accordingly. We also buy materials to fund our annual science fair. This is an event that is free to the local community where we invite our students and their families to perform the most popular science experiments of the academic year. These expenses are dedicated to the supplies for the science experiments and events. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 The other expenses we noted on this line is dedicated to the materials bought to carry out the activities of our volunteer/community group. We go to local elementary schools and teach kids science through science experiments. The experiments are planned for the entire year ahead of time. Therefore, we know what materials to buy to carry out these experiments. We also buy materials to fund our annual science fair. This is an event that is free to the local community where we invite our students and their families to perform the most popular science experiments of the academic year.