Middle School Outreach Program

The Watershed Protection group of the City of Palo Alto is seeking a contractor to provide free science lessons for middle school students. Watershed Protection partners with the Regional Water Quality Control Plant to provide lessons to elementary and middle schools in six communities that the wastewater treatment plant serves. Historically, we have reached approximately 3,800 students. We partner with the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo to provide lessons for elementary students. This project is seeking a contractor to manage and deliver the middle school outreach program, which will reach approximately 2,000 students. The contractor will deliver a middle school lesson that utilizes microscopes called, Microbes in Sewage . The curriculum is fully developed and has run in classrooms for 25+ years. The program has been paused for a couple of years, and the selected contractor will relaunch it for school year 2025-26.