We acknowledge the California Polytechnic State University, COSAM, especially Dean Emeritus Phil Bailey, for supporting and sustaining the Learn By Doing Lab as well as the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Physics and the College of Engineering. We thank the California State University Mathematics and Science Teacher Initiative for supporting the Learn By Doing Lab. A.C. was supported by the William and Linda Frost Fund. We are grateful to the Center of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education, including former director Susan Elrod and current director Chance Hoellwarth, for providing support to LBDL activities and to Jenny Cruz, Tiffany Kwapnoski, Jenny Bush, and Kaylene Wakeman for their roles in organizing the LBDL. We are grateful to faculty and staff who have brought their creativity and energy to the LBDL: Tom Bensky, Jen Carroll, John Chen, Kathy Chen, Jenny Cruz, Lynn Moody, Grace Neff, John Oliver, Kelly Polakek, Brian Rebar, Sean Ryan, and David Zigler, and others who have contributed ideas and taught in the LBDL as FIs. We thank Bev Marcum for sharing her blueprint for a course-based teaching experience and for inviting us to CSU Chico to observe the Hands-On Lab.
