“Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm” -Ralph Waldo Emerson For several years, we’ve gathered enthusiastic undergraduates and graduates to connect, collaborate and engage in their community, building networks and inspiring K-12 students and the public about research and discovery in neuroscience and art. Our students want to leave…
“The Brain – is wider than the Sky – For – put them side by side – The one the other will contain With ease – and You – beside” –Emily Dickinson How do we perceive our Oregon landscapes – the visual grandeur of a Strawberry Mountain trail, the crisp…
“It always seems impossible until it’s done” -Nelson Mandela And now it’s done! Learn more about our week in DC at the link! From classrooms to Congress! Dream it, risk it, reach out, speak up, mess up, work hard, come back, think more, change it, make art, innovate, remember consequences…
We are lucky to live in the Pacific Northwest, with easy access to trails, forests and campgrounds. In Portland, it’s a short hike or MAX ride to the Hoyt Arboretum, where you’re quickly immersed in conifers and damp earth. You can bicycle west to Stub Stewart State Park along the…
“You ask the world, and the world says no It’s the world’s refrain, mine says go…” -John Gorka Our outreach office, and our pipe cleaners, air dry clay, sheep brains, cerebral jello molds, EEG electrodes – were once kept in a closet behind two locked doors. The tiny hidden…
“It’s like people see me as an object, not as a human being.” Noggin loves visiting p:ear, a nonprofit center for homeless youth. P:ear offers community, along with critical services, support, and a welcoming educational and gallery space in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, filled with caring staff and volunteers for young people…
Our Noggin volunteers tackled sclerotic commuter highways to meet with sleepy 10th graders at Liberty High School in Hillsboro Public Schools last week, early on a foggy autumn morning… We were invited by Ramona Toth, the Health and Chemistry teacher at Liberty, whose classroom we’d visited previously on the same memorable day we’d…
NW Noggin was delighted to participate in the annual Oregon Art Education Association (OAEA) conference in Wilsonville, just down I-5 from Portland! It was a brilliantly colorful autumn day to run a workshop titled “STEAM Ahead! Using Art and Science to Engage Underserved Communities…” LEARN MORE: 2017 OAEA Conference Brochure We’d…
Post by Christina Williams, Noggin Resource Council member Last Wednesday, we came together and celebrated our first ever Noggin Fest, and it was an incredible success! We are thankful to all those individuals who donated their talents to make this a truly unique and memorable event, which will no doubt…
Post by Noggin Resource Council member Jesse Hamlin WOW! The inaugural year of Noggin Fest was a great success! We packed the Alberta Rose Theater on a rainy Wednesday night, and partied until the wee hours with science, music, brains and art! LEARN MORE: Noggin Fest – Shannon Entropy, King Who, Cambrian…