Cool things we do at Oak Crest!
This is a collection of short posts about some of the work we do that is connected to STEM subjects in school and to things we see and use in everyday life.
Pathway to STEM now accepting applications
The Pathways to STEM program is now accepting applications (click here to apply)! Pathways to STEM is a collaboration between Citrus College, Cal ...
MOST-IP welcomes CRISPR Classroom
We are excited to announce that CRISPR Classroom has joined MOST-IP: The Monrovia - Oak Crest Science & Technology Incubator Program! CRISPR Classroom ...
City of Monrovia Receives Award of Excellence for Youth Employment Services (YES) Program
City of Monrovia Receives Award of Excellence Monrovia, California - The California Park & Recreation Society has awarded the City of Monrovia with ...
Announcing the 2022 Oak Crest Entrepreneur Fellowships (OCEF)
We are announcing the start of the Oak Crest Entrepreneur Fellowships (OCEF), a new 1-year program aimed at supporting minority students and budding ...
An Overview of COVID-19 Testing
An Overview of COVID-19 Testing Step 1: COVID-19 RNA Extraction RNA extraction is the process by which RNA, the genetic material of the ...
Spray Drying in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Spray Drying in the Pharmaceutical Industry The Oak Crest Institute of Science is making use of high efficiency spray drying techniques common in ...
Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing & Resistance
Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Antibiotics are chemicals that inhibit bacterial growth (1). Antibiotic susceptibility testing is one of the ways scientists, including the microbiologists ...
Junior Researcher Academy at Home 2021 ends with a great event
This summer 2021, the Oak Crest Institute of Science and the City of Monrovia teamed up to provide local 7th to 9th grade ...
The 2021 virtual Junior Researcher Academy is underway!
Today was the first day of the Junior Researcher Academy in collaboration with the City of Monrovia and supported by a generous donation from ...
Oak Crest Fellows graduate from Bio-Flex Pre-Apprenticeship
Congratulations to our fellows Ayah Halabi, Gildardo Limon, Karina Lizama and Alijah Navalta for graduating from the Bio-Flex Pre-Apprenticeship with the South Bay ...
Oak Crest Fellows at work in the lab
Our fellows have been busy learning about our research and some of the methods we use at Oak Crest. So far they have ...
Fellowships resume at Oak Crest
We are happy to announce the restart of the Oak Crest Fellowships for community college students, as an extension of the Cooperative Education ...
Two birthdays and more (Oak Crest Science News: March – April 2021)
Dear friends of Oak Crest, 2021 is again shaping up to be a busy year. Oak Crest just celebrated its 23rd birthday at ...
Junior Researcher Academy returns in virtual format
The Junior Researcher Academy (JRA) in collaboration with the City of Monrovia returns this summer from June 22 to July 29, 2021, on Tuesdays ...
2019 Junior Research Academy
The Junior Researcher Academy, in its 2nd year, opened with forty 7th to 9th grade students enrolled. Our team ...
Oak Crest Summer Programs in the News!
This week, Oak Crest summer programs were prominently showcased in a series of informative articles by the local news publication Monrovia Weekly. One article introduced ...
Life of a Researcher
Marc Baum describes what a career as a Research Scientist is like, as part of the Gigniks project, where underserved Los Angeles ...
Monrovia Announces Plans for Summer Science Program with Oak Crest
Monrovia City Manager Oliver Chi announced yesterday (May 18, 2017) that plans are underway with the Oak Crest Institute of Science to develop a ...