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Brains to Benson! **POSTPONED
May 7, 2020 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
WHAT: Noggin visit with Health Sciences students at Benson High School
**POSTPONED due to COVID-19; new date to come!
WHERE: Benson High School, 546 NE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97232 (Band Room)
WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 8:30am – noon
Contact: Lesley Keith, Health Sciences CTE Instructor, Benson High School
Benson is a 100+ year old polytechnic high school in Portland Public Schools. From their website: “Within an environment that fosters diversity, Benson’s mission is to integrate hands-on career technical education and core academics today for the innovations of tomorrow.”
From PPS:“Benson Polytechnic High School is Portland, Oregon’s premier four-year career-technical education focus high school, building on a history that spans nearly 100 years. Benson Polytechnic High School offers the academic rigor and the practical training that prepares students for college and the highly skilled, highly paid 21st-century work force.”
Our volunteers will answer questions, discuss neuroscience research and make brain-related art with about 60 students in the Health Sciences track.
Benson High School students printed our t-shirts for 2016 outreach in Washington DC!
LEARN MORE: Brains in DC: Inspired Teaching at Turner and ITS
Come join us! Please RSVP to griesar@pdx.edu, jleake@pdx.edu, aaeisen@pdx.edu 🙂
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Mark Rutledge-Gorman, OHSU Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC)
4. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU