In order for your student to participate in the Science Alliance Program, you must have registered and participate in one of our Virtual Parent Informational Meetings.
Click here to register: September 14 - 7pm or September 15 - 7pm
Click on an icon below to register for your school's Science Alliance.
Registration opens Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 7pm
Science Alliance is an after-school program available in all SRVUSD high schools created to pair curious and motivated fifth grade students (buddies) with high school students (mentors). The mentor will encourage and guide their buddy on a journey of science and methodical inquiry, under the careful guidance of a credentialed teacher at one of the high schools. Science Alliance helps prepare the fifth graders for middle school lab science and teaches positive role-modeling skills to high school mentors.
The year-long journey includes six buddy-mentor meetings, interesting lessons and learning opportunities. The program concludes with a district-wide science fair to be held in March where buddies share the project that they worked on throughout the program. The program has been widely recognized as helping to prepare both fifth graders and high school students for future success.
Program Details:
- Meetings will be via Zoom with breakout rooms
- Work will be assigned and submitted through Google Classroom
- Zoom Meeting Dates: Oct 19, Nov 16, Dec 14, Jan 25, Feb 22, Mar 22
- Ages: 5th Grade ONLY
- District Science Fair: (Tentitive Plans Due to Covid-19) March 27 at 9 am to 3 pm (High School or Zoom)
Registration fee covers:
- Science Alliance T-shrt
- Digital Binder and resources on Google Classroom
- Science Fair certificate and prizes
- Talks by real life scientists
- Stipend for Science Alliance teacher/advisors
- Fun learning experience and guided scientific enrichment with high school mentor
Registration will open on Wednesday, September 16 at 7 pm.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]
Thank you to all the 5th graders who participated in last year’s SRVEF Science Alliance program. We had 214 5th graders who registered across the district and over 200 high school mentors together with Science Alliance club officers who made the program possible.
We are pleased to announce the 2019-2020 Virtual Science Fair winners:
First Place Winners:
Sharanya Roy - Sight vs. Sound
Samraat Chauhan - Awesome Rockets!!
Second Place Winners:
Sachika Kamath - CUBEIT
Sahaana Vasudevan - Soil Erosion in Action
Third Place Winners:
Moksha Pedaballi - Lights and Heights
Ayaan Krishnan - Various liquids vs pH of pond water