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Noggins in Knappa & Astoria!

Name: Noggins in Knappa & Astoria!
Start: 2025-10-21T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-23T23:59:59-07:00
Location: Astoria, Oregon

October 21, 2025 - October 23, 2025

WHAT: Outreach collaboration with TRIO in Astoria area public schools; LEARN MORE ABOUT TRIO: Threshold through TRIO

WHERE: Complimentary housing at The Y Astoria, 514 12th Street, Astoria, OR, 97103

WHEN: Tuesday, October 21 – Thursday, October 23, 2025 (REQUIRED: ARRIVAL TUESDAY; OUTREACH VISITS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY 8:00am – 3:00pm)

CONTACT: Lacey Guest, TRIO Program Coordinator

LIMITED OPPORTUNITY: Housing and meals provided.

Noggin volunteers will spend three days visiting public schools with brains and art in Clatsop County this February, with time to enjoy the dramatic North Coast of Oregon. Participants will stay at the beautiful Y in the heart of historic Astoria, Oregon, and enjoy meals from local breweries and restaurants!

TUESDAY, October 21
ARRIVAL IN ASTORIA

Wednesday, October 22
KNAPPA PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

Why do we dream?

Why do we lucid dream?

How do we receive information?

Why do have bad dreams?

Why do we Déjà vu?

Why is getting 9 hours of sleep important and what affects it?

Why do we experience anger if it’s not a constructive emotion?

What influences dreams?

How does the brain see?

How do nerves communicate with the brain?

How does paralysis work?

Does the brain function at all after the body dies?

What’s a common similarity between psychopaths and their brains?

MORE QUESTIONS FROM KNAPPA:
1. Why are brains wrinkly?
2. What is the function of anger?
3. Why do you study psychology?
4. How’s trauma/PTSD work?
5. Why can’t we consciously control body function?
6. Why/how do some people empathize and others don’t?
7. Why is the brain centralized?
8. Why do we experience deja vu?
9. What’s worst for my brain— phones or TV?
10. If the brain is so good at learning, why can’t I learn math?

DREAMS/SLEEP:
1. Why would I wake up from a dream crying?
2. Why would I wake up breathing heavily after falling in a dream?
3. Why don’t I dream at night?
4. Why is 9 hours of sleep important?
5. Why do we dream?
6. Why do we lucid dream?
7. How would someone who gets full night’s sleep function compared to someone who doesn’t?

THANK YOU students, teachers and staff at Knappa High School!

Thursday, October 23
ASTORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

ASTORIA HIGH SCHOOL

Questions from Astoria High School:

GENERAL QUESTIONS:
1. What’s the most popular neuroscience research that’s done in your field? (Addiction research and visual system)
2. What’s the “Venn diagram” of psychology and neuroscience? How to look at behavior & complete story of behavioral neuroscience? Cognitive neuroscience? Biological psychology?
3. What does fresh brain smells like?
4. How does being trans work in the brain?
5. How does brain a aneurysm happen?
6. What’s the most important part of the brain? *hard to answer*
7. How does MS work in the brain?
8. How does one get brain cancer?
9. How does addiction work? .

DREAMS/SLEEP:
1. Sleep, modern era, light, screen usage, sunlight, melatonin overall questions.
2. How and why do we dream?

ASTORIA MIDDLE SCHOOL

THANK YOU students, teachers and staff at Astoria Public Schools!

LEARN MORE: Threshold through TRIO

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS (FULL)
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Hana Haley, PSU
4. Noah Milman, OHSU
5. Allison Ellingson, OHSU
6. Jessica Vilaysanh, PSU
7. Nyah Hawley, PSU
8. Maddy Wary, OHSU

See what we’ve done in Clatsop County before!