Project SEED generated a great deal of interest on the part of others who wanted to follow a similar path for improving elementary science education. We began working with an industry-schools collaborative on the island of Maui several years ago, and helped them establish a successful pilot project in one school. They have now, with NSF support, extended the program to all the schools on the island. We have also collaborated with the Amgen Corporation and the Conejo Valley School District, near Amgen's headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California. CAPSI helped to establish a pilot program in one school as a model for the district. The success at that school has led to its adoption across the district.
In the fall of 1994, the collaborative of CAPSI and the Pasadena Unified School District was chosen to be the first NSF-sponsored Center to Promote District-Wide Science Education Reform. For several years we worked with twelve districts throughout California serving predominantly under-represented minority students. For each district, we provided resources to facilitate the establishment of a pilot school program designed to provide a foundation for district-wide change, much as the model that was successful in the Pasadena K-6 program. The districts were Bakersfield, Baldwin Park, Desert Sands, El Centro, Hacienda-La Puente, Inglewood, Lennox, Lynwood, South Bay, Stockton, Tulare, and Whittier.