Science Education

• ASSET — Employees at our Pittsburgh campus were instrumental in founding the Allegheny Schools Science Education and Technology (ASSET) Consortium in 1992. Through this program, business, education and community leaders work jointly to improve science education in elementary school by giving teachers the training, tools and support they need to be effective in the classroom. Recently, Governor Ed Rendell rolled out ASSET statewide in Pennsylvania.
  
  
• Making Science Make Sense® — Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Bayer’s Making Science Make Sense (MSMS) was established in 1995 as a corporate-wide initiative to advance science literacy across the U. S. through hands-on inquiry-based science learning, employee volunteerism and public education.
  
  
  • MSMS has received numerous awards in its 13-year history, including the 2000 President’s Service Award, the most prestigious national recognition given for community service aimed at solving the country’s most critical social problem. MSMS also earned the 2006 Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership for Bayer, the first chemicals company ever to be so honored. The Ron Brown Award is given annually to companies that demonstrate exemplary quality in their relationships with employees and communities.
    
    
  • Bayer Corporation the Bayer USA Foundation, will be honored, respectively, by the National Science Board and the Council on Foundations for their long-standing support of science education and science literacy at two separate ceremonies in Washington, D.C., in May 2008. In bestowing the award, the National Science Board is recognizing Bayer for its long-standing and exemplary commitment to science public outreach, science education and science policy. In particular, the National Science Board cites “the important work of Bayer’s Making Science Make Sense® program, through which thousands of students gain exposure to experiential science learning.”
    
    
• BASIC — Bayer Association for Science in Communities is the Pittsburgh branch of Making Science Make Sense. More than 200 employees are BASIC volunteers who nurture children’s natural curiosity about science by providing speakers and interactive presentations to local schools and museums. Each year, Bayer volunteers visit more than 175 classrooms and participate in community events, reaching some 15,000 students in the region.