CLEAR fellows engage in various activities outside the campus. CLEAR in the Community involves students talking with the public about science at events, such as farmers’ markets, libraries, zoos, pubs, science festivals and the March for Science.

Visit our Bay Area Science Festival page for a summary of these events.

Visit our PubScience page for more information about past and future events

Visit our Farmers’ Markets page for more details on our themes and tables at local markets.

You can see examples of events below. Please visit our Facebook page or Instagram to see photos of past and to keep updated on future ones.

Booth at the SF March for Science. Over 100 people stopped by our photobooth to tell us why they loved science (see Facebook for pictures).

CLEAR’s table with DIY DNA extractions at the North Bay Discovery Day event. Oct 28, 2017

A visitor at the Earth Action Initiative Conference shares their knowledge on various food technologies with us.

Tuesday Simmons demonstrating the homemade stand that turns your phone into a microscope at the North Bay Science Festival in Sonoma. Oct. 28, 2017

Groups of families visit our Flowers and Pollinators table on Earth Day at the Oakland Zoo.

South Berkeley Farmer’s Market, Halloween 2017

Virginia Markham gives a talk at Berkeley Public library for their series, “Popping the Science Bubble”.

Tuesday and Neem help a visitor extract DNA from a strawberry at the Sunday Streets event in Berkeley.

Becky gives a plant pathology talk at the Cal Academy of Science’s Nightlife.

Temescal Farmers’ Market, Food Security Theme Nov. 9, 2017