Save the Date for The Baxter Center Symposium

Celebrate 15 years with us on May 12, 2025 at Chicago Botanic Garden

Join us at our Symposium as we celebrate 15 years of The Baxter Center for Science Education. This year we will be celebrating on Monday, May 12, 2025 from 8-5pm at Chicago Botanic Garden. Join us and over 100 Chicagoland middle and high school science teachers for a day of learning with presentations and activities led by talented speakers to bring back to the classroom. Registration will open Monday, March 17, 2025. Make sure to register early—seats fill up quickly!

Interested in presenting at The Baxter Center Symposium? Click here to apply by Monday, March 10th!


Apply to Present by March 10th

The Baxter Center Case Study & Partnership Toolkit

Promising Practices in Corporate-School-University Partnerships

This case study highlights promising practices for building effective and sustainable STEM partnerships between K-12, industry, and university partners, grounded in the story of the Baxter Center. Check it out to learn more about how our Center got started, what we learned about successfully working with schools, and some of the impacts we have had along the way.


Baxter 2023 Corporate Responsibility Report

Making a Meaningful Difference

For nearly a century, Baxter has made a meaningful difference in global healthcare while creating lasting value for the communities they serve. Click here to explore their corporate responsibility goals and accomplishments in more detail.


Our Work in the Chicagoland Area

3959
Total teachers trained
1900+
Baxter Box lab kits distributed
38,100+
YouTube Channel views
Since 2009
260,000
Estimated students reached
426
Total schools reached
260
Total workshops

What our teachers are saying

The BCSE allows teachers to stay up to date with the advancement of technology in science. By helping the teachers stay up to date and by providing activities that can be implanted into the classroom, it allows the future generation to have exposure to new developments in biotechnology at a young age. This hopefully will inspire the students to pursue careers in science.
The BCSE helps out teachers who teach at schools with limited resources get the resources and instructive know how they otherwise would not be able to obtain.
Holy moly, this center is GREAT! I appreciate your outreach, enthusiasm, and expertise. It is really amazing to have this kind of access to a research institution and you are all so helpful in making this type of science accessible to our students.