We started Northwest Noggin as parents in 2012, exploring summer educational opportunities offered by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), “Saturday Academy” and other nonprofits. These programs were prohibitively expensive, and with two kids each and limited income they were not accessible options for either Noggin co-founder at…
Post by Asha Powell-Stormberg, undergraduate in Science pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Asha is a welcome and regular contributor to outreach visits through Northwest Noggin. Noggin @ Ron Russell Middle School I recently joined my fellow Noggin volunteers at Ron Russell Middle School in the David Douglas Public School District…
Post by Julian Rodriguez, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Julian is a welcome, regular contributor to outreach through NW Noggin, and is currently seeking grants to support arts integration in STEM. When we arrive in K-12 classrooms in the Pacific Northwest with our real human noggins we pretty…
Post by Kayla McDaniel, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Kayla is a full-time Research Assistant working in Dr. Miranda Lim’s Sleep & Health Applied Research Program (SHARP) laboratory at the Portland Veteran’s Administration Medical Center and OHSU. “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe…
Post by Jonathan Palacios, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Jonathan is a BUILD EXITO and U-RISE scholar working in Dr. Angela Ozburn’s substance use disorder research lab at OHSU. Discovering Science Being born in a small country was a factor that defined my…
Post by Allonté Barakat, an undergraduate Liberal Studies major minoring in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Allonté is a computer scientist, voice actor and veteran of the tabletop role playing game (TTRPG) scene, with first-hand knowledge of the power of discovering your voice and the effect that voice can…
Post by Citlaly Vazquez, undergraduate majoring in Public Health Clinical Science and minoring in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. How did I get here? I am a senior majoring in Public Health Clinical Science and minoring in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. I am…
We love visiting 6th graders at Portland’s Hosford Middle School, and have done so now for multiple years! Returning again and again, with new students, new volunteers, different weather, different brain specimens and newly crafted pipe cleaner neurons and glia, in pre-pandemic, raging-pandemic and current pandemic conditions – has deepened…
Northwest Noggin was thrilled to receive an invitation from the Portland Art Museum, the seventh oldest museum in the United States, to present a workshop on neural networks at their free community “Evening for Educators” event in February, 2023. LEARN MORE: Evening for Educators: Hito Steyerl: This is the Future…
Post by Kristin Preston, Northwest Noggin outreach participant and undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. “Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food.”“All disease begins in the gut.” — Hippocrates As we move away from the darker, colder winter season, and into longer days of sunshine and…