We hope to see a huge crowd from CALS at the UW-Madison Day at the State Fair, but if you can’t get there, you can still help UW–Madison make a difference by donating school supplies for Milwaukee Public Schools.  You can find donation boxes at many campus locations—though we’d love to see an overflowing box in Ag Hall:

• Agricultural Hall, 1450 Linden Drive
• Welcome Center, 21 N. Park St.
• Union South – Campus and Community Information Welcome Desk, 1308 W. Dayton St.
• Camp Randall Welcome Center, inside Gate 1 of the stadium in Kellner Hall.
• Wisconsin Alumni Association, 650 North Lake Street
• Steenbock Memorial Library, 550 Babcock Drive
• Ebling Library, Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Ave.

Here’s what’s needed (donations must be new, unused and in their original packaging).

• Backpacks
• Wide-ruled spiral notebooks
• Pocket folders in primary colors
• Fiskars blunt tip kid friendly scissors
• Box of 12 or 24 colored pencils
• Package of loose leaf paper (wide-ruled)
• Package of 12 or 24 pencils
• Box of Crayola Colored Markers (“classic colors”)
• Box or package of 12 or 24 glue sticks
• Package of 4 Expo dry erase markers
• Box of highlighters
• Rulers
• Box of large pink erasers
• Boxes of Ziploc bags (quart and gallon size)
• Bottles of Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer (8 oz. size)

During last year’s UW–Madison Day at the Wisconsin State Fair, 55 fifty-gallon-sized bags of school supplies were collected to benefit Milwaukee Public Schools.