WHAT: Noggin visit with K-5 students!

We did it!

Enamored by Neuroscience!

WHERE: Martin Luther King Elementary School, 4801 Idaho St, Vancouver, WA 98661

WHEN: Friday, April 22, 2022, 8:00am – 11:30am

Going back to elementary school with extra noggins and art!

SOME MLK STUDENT QUESTIONS
When does a rotting brain start making an odor?
How does the brain function?
How do we remember?
How do you get the brains?
When you body moves is there some attachments that make your body move?
What if you have an artificial brain?
Are the 3D printed brains also real, or from real people?
How long have you been studying the brain?
When did you know you wanted to study brain?
Do ants have brains?
Are there animals that don’t have brains?
How does the spinal cord work?
Is it normal to get dizzy?
So I’m thinking that maybe we are like robots  –  but also not robots?
Are those animal brains real?
What is your brain made out of?
How do you remember?
How do you get headaches?
Can what my brain is doing now as a kid affect what my own kids’ brains might do in the future?
Does what happened to my mom in her life before I was born affect how my brain works today?
What is consciousness  –  like, in the brain? What’s happening in my brain when I really see you now?

Our first visit to King Elementary In Vancouver Public Schools.

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Grace Taylor, PSU
4. Yasaman Farhand, PSU
5. Britta Harbury, PSU
6. Sydney Watson, PSU
7. Elizabeth Munk, PSU
8. Annabella Showerman, PSU