Happy New Year, and welcome to the January 2007 issue of CU4K12 News. Each month, this newsletter highlights two K-12 outreach programs from the University of Colorado at Boulder campus as well as our exciting CU Wizards program. There are more than 200 listings on the CU4K12 site, with programs designed to augment a wide array of K-12 curricula. All programs that are featured in the newsletter are open to broad enrollment. For more information about programs from CU-Boulder, please visit www.colorado.edu/cu4k12, which is updated regularly.

This Month’s Feature CU Hotspot for Kids:

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival

The 50th anniversary of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is this summer. Until then, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's highly acclaimed touring program, Living Shakespeare, will bring the bard’s word alive at your school or community organization. For over 16 years, Living Shakespeare has enlivened over 55,000 students, teachers and community members across the state.

From September to May, professional actors from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival offer an assortment of Living Shakespeare Performance presentations, each with their own distinctive selection of rollicking scenes, songs, and (maybe!) sonnets from some of Shakespeare's best-loved plays. Show titles for this year are: Elementary School Show - “Shakespeare’s Sister”, Middle School Show – “Monstrous Little Voices”, and High School Show – “Boy Meets Girl Meets Shakespeare”.

For Further Information Contact:

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival
303-492-1537
www.coloradoshakes.org

Read Across America

Started in 1997 by the National Education Association and its members started a reading revolution with Read Across America Day. It began with a one-day celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2, and has now become a year-round literacy campaign reaching nearly every home, school, and community. For more information on Read Across America Day, activity ideas, planning materials or resources, please, visit the NEA website.

On this day, Friday, March 2, 2007, volunteers from CU-Boulder will read in selected schools, along with read-along appearances from the CU mascot, Chip.

For Further Information Contact:

Community Relations Office:
Erin Frazier, Community Liaison
303-492-8384
erin.frazier@colorado.edu

What’s going on with the CU Wizards this month?

"Chemistry in the Kitchen"
Saturday, January 20, 2007, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Chem. 140
Join Professor David Nesbitt for answers to the many questions you may have about science and the kitchen accompanied by lots of fun kid-based demonstrations, colors, geysers, and, of course, the occasional Wizard-generated explosion!

The CU Wizards Program provides an informal, entertaining and interactive introduction to chemistry, physics, biology and astronomy. Concepts are aimed at students in the fifth to ninth grades, but all ages are welcome to come learn, have fun, and experience science hands-on. Shows are held at 9:30 AM on the CU Boulder campus, one Saturday each month from September through June and last approximately one hour. The CU Wizards are CU professors in the sciences who donate their knowledge, time, expertise and energy creating entertaining and engaging science shows for free to the public

For Further Information Contact:
CU Wizards
303-492-5011
djn@jila.colorado.edu

Planning a field trip to CU-Boulder?

CU-Boulder Community Relations regularly plans excursions to the Boulder campus for middle school students. We can arrange for a variety of experiences, including meeting with current students, campus tours, science shows, and much more. Contact Judy Strathearn, Community Relations Program Assistant, at 303-735-0228 for more information. Wednesday and Friday are preferred for campus tours.

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