In addition to presenting a new Noggin poster at the Public Teaching of Neuroscience: Outreach session, and another poster at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Brain Awareness Campaign Event…
POSTER: Brain Awareness Campaign Event
Presentation Time: Saturday, Nov 12, 2016, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Location/Room: San Diego Convention Center, Room 16
POSTER: Public Teaching of Neuroscience (Outreach)
Presentation Time: Sunday, Nov 13, 2016, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Poster up Saturday (11/12), 1:00 – 5:00pm; Sunday (11/13) 8:00am – 5:00pm
Posterboard Number: NNN46 (Hall B, San Diego Convention Center)
Presentation Number: 26.04SU
Abstract Control Number: 1069
And now a BOOTH!! Offered by SfN in Ballroom 20, Booth #7 🙂
We are also very excited to bring our #sciart outreach volunteers from Oregon Health & Sciences University, Washington State University in Vancouver and Portland State University into classrooms at both Jefferson and Linda Vista elementary schools during the SfN conference in San Diego this month!
Our outreach visits will take place on Tuesday, November 15, from 7:45am – 12:35pm.
UPDATE: We did it! Visited two schools with brains & art…
EXPLORE MORE: Cortical Connections in San Diego Schools!
Noggin will contribute ten volunteers, and UC San Diego Neuroscience will accompany us with 2 – 3 additional participants – along with some human and animal brains! A representative from SfN will join us with brainfacts.org resources for both schools.
We will also welcome Judy Berman Silbert and Ellen Potter from ArtReach, to help engage about 250 4th and 5th grade students with a pipe cleaner neuron project…
MAKE YOUR OWN NEURONS
LEARN MORE: pipe-cleaner-neuron-project-background
CREATE: how-to-make-a-pipe-cleaner-neuron
Which will be displayed at the Society for Neuroscience conference!
Booth #7, outside Ballroom 20, San Diego Convention Center
OUTREACH: Jefferson + Linda Vista Elementary, San Diego Public Schools
Presentation Time: Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 7:45 AM – 12:35 PM
Our visit will proceed as follows…
7:45am
Ride to Jefferson Elementary from two locations by San Diego Public Schools volunteers…
PICKUP LOCATION ONE: Omni San Diego (675 L St, San Diego, CA 92101) John Harkness, Alex Camino, Allie Clark, Alfredo Zuniga, Jordan Blacktop, Emma Lindberg (from SfN)
PICKUP LOCATION TWO: Horton Grand Hotel (311 Island Ave, San Diego, CA 92101) Morgan Wirthlin, Andre Walcott, Scott Jones, Rebecca Hood
8:10am – 8:40am
Preparation and set up @ Jefferson Elementary; 3770 Utah St., San Diego, CA 92104
8:45am – 10:10am
We’ll be introducing ourselves to about 100 students – just knowing who our graduates and undergraduates are, where and what they study, why they do the research they do, how they got interested and inspired to learn more about the brain and behavior, is powerful experience.
After introductions, we’ll ask kids what they know already about the brain. We want to guide the conversation to what brains are made of – cells! – and how remarkable, diverse, unique and numerous these cells happen to be. We’ll ask questions like: how many neurons do you think you have? Do you have more than your teachers, or parents? How does the number of cells relate to what you can do?
We’ll also point out how neurons link together to form networks, to channel information along specific paths. Different networks do different things, including what you hear, see, think, remember, feel, pay attention to, and decide. Neural networks are critical, and that’s what kids refine as they experience their classroom, family life, the world. Many of these cells die off, while others build stronger connections, routing information in more useful and productive ways that let them accomplish more…
Then we’ll look at real brains! UCSD is sending 2-3 of their own undergraduate outreach volunteers with both human and animal brains for students to examine, plus some additional sheep brains that the students will be able to hold. Our volunteers will help introduce different parts of the brain, pointing out where important structures are, answering questions,…
After brain viewing, students will get pipe cleaners, and will start building their own brain cells, complete with cell bodies, dendrites, axons, myelin, nucleus, even DNA. Noggin volunteers will sit with groups of students and artist participants from Artreach, and build cells, while answering questions about neurons, synapses and the brain…
10:10am – 10:30am
Travel to Linda Vista Elementary; again, by volunteer drivers from San Diego Public Schools
10:30am – 10:55am
Preparation and set up @ Linda Vista Elementary; 2772 Ulric St., San Diego, CA 92111
10:55am – 12:35pm
At Linda Vista, we’ll be introducing ourselves to about 150 students! We’ll proceed in the same way here… 🙂
12:35pm
Ride back to the Convention Center
CONFIRMED NOGGIN VOLUNTEERS
1. John Harkness, WSU
2. Alexandria Camino, WSU
3. Amanda Barkeley-Levenson, UC San Diego (formerly OHSU)
4. Scott Jones, OHSU
5. Alfredo Zuniga, OHSU
6. Rebecca Hood, OHSU
7. Andre Walcott, OHSU
8. Morgan Wirthlin, CMU (formerly OHSU)
9. Allie Clark, PSU
Picture above by Seimi Rurup, Associate Editor, The Dana Foundation