From: carrie (clibeu@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 22:06:28 PDT
Message-Id: <2.2.32.20000415050628.008909f0@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:06:28 -0700 From: carrie <clibeu@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Subject: Science materials giveaway at UC Berkeley
Hello Teachers:
Thank you for your interest in this program. Here is a basic summary
of what this program is about: w
We have cleared out Barker Hall on the UCB campus. There are now 1-3
rooms on each of six floors full of perfectly good, new, and/or reusable
science and teaching supplies. We would like to give it away to be reused
instead of thrown away or recycled. Teachers that have made it the first
three days have each left with at least three to four, if not a truckload
full of stuff. Please invite any teachers that you know to come with you.
The more material that goes to schools, the better chance of having future
programs such as this. Sorry for the short notice. Here is an update on the
Barker Hall "Garage Sale Type Giveaway":
Name of the building: Barker Hall
Location: The northwest section of the UCB campus. The building is located
at the corner of Hearst and Oxford Avenue. It is a brown, six-story
building. Please come to the southwest doors.
Time: Monday 9-5pm. We will probably be open Tuesday 9-5pm as well. I will
email a confirmation of this to everyone on Monday. The building director is
out of town, but she will probably okay Tuesday, seeing as there is still A
LOT of useful stuff available.
What to bring: Please bring as many containers (bags, boxes, crates, etc.)
as you can. We have a limited supply. Carts or other types of wheels could
also be helpful.
Parking: Please, just find any parking and walk on to campus. Then after you
get everything you want, you can pull your car around to the loading dock
underneath the hall and loadup.
Requests: Please sign in and out of the building. We are responsible for
the individuals in the building, which is locked down to the public. Also,
please take a survey and future contact form. I (Carrie) will be using the
information to help design future programs like this one to be more
efficient and convenient, as well as find out how useful this material is to
your school. This helps justify the extra time and effort a give away takes
to the University. Lastly, on your way out we are weighing the material you
take, by material type (plastic, glass, metal or equipment/machinery). This
is going to be part of a write-up for the University, and for the Alameda
County Waste Management Authority, one of the sponsors of this program. It
did not slow anybody down too much the last few days; you can make a pile on
the ground floor that I weigh while you continue collecting stuff.
Here is an update of the available materials:
We still have a lot of new and barely used glassware: pipettes, glass vials,
test tubes, burets (sp?), flasks, beakers, funnels, tubing of all sizes,
graduated cylinders, and older, more archaic, but interesting looking glassware.
Rubber stoppers, screw tops, cork stoppers, etc.
Metal clamps, tongs, heating plates, bunsen burners and tubing, ringstands
Computer equipment: keyboards, older monitors, both Macs and PCs, etc. Very
Limited supply.
Some various equipment, working status unknown. Ph meters, conductivity
measuring devices etc. Lots of treasures waiting to be found.
Protective eyewear.
Plastic dishes, bottles, test tubes, burets, pipettes, etc.
Petri dishes, of all sizes.
Calculators and stop watches, working status unknown (probably dead batteries).
Various filter papers.
other various supplies, too much to list here.
ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC
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