good evening, my name is katherine neilson and i co-direct. i am pleased to be here at the request of superintendent richard a. carranza and i am honored to share our work with all of you. as you all know, ucsan francisco and sfusd have a long history of working together. it is greatly committed to its community and has been working with fsusd for a long time. our particular effort and the science and education partnership is now 25 years old. each year with the staff of ten people, we support more than 250 csf partners and volunteers and students teachers. they spend more than 10,000 hours working in 90 percent of the district schools each year. and that annually results in about 4,000 students getting to know ucsf scientists and these scientists coming into the classrooms are not guest lecturers but rather the students participate in a series of hands-on science lessons that are led by the scientists and the teachers together. and just a couple of things that we have seen from these partnerships, when we ask middle and high school students,