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SUMMARY:Noggin @ Oregon City High
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: NW Noggin visit with high schoolers at Oregon City High School \nWe did it!\n \n \n \n◦ What are lucid dreams?\n◦ How to help ppl with PTSD (aside therapy)?\n◦ What kind of therapy for phobias/PTSD/anxiety?\n◦ How does intergenerational trauma develop? \n \n \n \n \n◦ What is forensic psychology?\n◦ What part of the brain is involved with addiction?\n◦ How long did it take to get your PhD in behavioral neuroscience?\n◦ What is the most interesting thing you have learned through your career?\n◦ What made you want to be in this field of work?\n◦ Why did you decide to go into neuroscience and psychology? \n \n \n \n \n◦ How have your studies changed the way you see life?\n◦ What is the most interesting part of your job?\n◦ How does children’s psychology and adult psychology differ from each other?\n◦ I want to be a Nurse Practitioner in children’s psychology and I was wondering what pointers or advice for someone wanting to enter the field of psych?\n◦ How does AI do you think has helped with the research of new things?\n◦ How did you decide you wanted to go into this field\, and what schooling did you do?\n◦ How does having a serious injury affect the mind of a person? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nWHERE: Oregon City High School\, 19761 S Beavercreek Rd\, Oregon City\, OR 97045 \nWHEN: Friday\, January 16\, 2026\, 8:15am – 1:00pm (THERE WILL BE COFFEE 🙂 \nContact: Kelsey Scully\, Science Teacher\, Oregon City High School \n \nWe’ll join high school students studying science and anatomy in multiple classes at Oregon City High School to talk brain research\, make art\, and consider questions! \n \nCome join us! Please contact Bill Griesar (griesar@pdx.edu) and Jeff Leake (jleake@pdx.com) to get involved. \nCOMMITTED PARTICIPANTS\n1. Bill Griesar\, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU\n2. Jeff Leake\, NW Noggin/PSU\n3. Becky Callos\, PSU\n4. Berlyn Bankhardt\, PSU\n5. Gabe Guarin\, PSU\n6. Danica Helms\, PSU\n7. Zulyed Guerra\, PSU\n8. Yehielis Medina Perez\, PSU\n9. Jasmine Loeung\, PSU\n10. Nyah Hawley\, PSU\n11. Bee Conn\, PSU\n12. Cece Austin\, PSU\n13. Alicia Bridges\, PSU\n14. Daisy Graham\, Skidmore College \nLEARN MORE: NW Noggin visiting CAP Classes \nDid school kill my brain?
URL:https://nwnoggin.org/event/noggin-oregon-city-high-2/
LOCATION:Oregon City High School\, 19761 S Beavercreek Rd\, Oregon City\, OR\, 97045\, United States
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SUMMARY:Noggin @ Columbia City Elementary
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Noggin visit to Columbia City Elementary School (hour drive from Portland) \nWe did it!!!\n \n– How fast can neurons communicate with the brain?\n– What do you mean that neurons send electricity to talk with other cells in the body?\n– How fast does a brain learn in one year?\n– How is the brain made?\n– What is the brain made of?\n– How do you think in your brain?\n– Does a person have to be dead to study their brain?\n– Does psychology focus on the brain?\n– Do you think we can harness brain energy to create infinite powers?\n– What part of the brain has long term memory?\n– What happens to your brain when you get a concussion?\n– Why are all the ‘nerd words’ in Latin? \n \n \nWHERE: Columbia City Elementary School\, 2000 2nd Street\, Columbia City\, OR 97018 \nWHEN: Thursday\, January 22\, 9:00am – 2:00pm; Coffee\, snacks and LUNCH provided! \nCONTACT: Martine Barnett\, Principal; lunch orders DUE by 1/19 \n \nOur first visit to the Home of the Otters! \n \nJOIN US!\nPlease contact griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu for to get involved 🙂 \nCOMMITTED PARTICIPANTS\n1. Bill Griesar\, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin\n2. Jeff Leake\, PSU/NW Noggin\n3. Denesa Lockwood\, OHSU/NW Noggin\n4. Becky Callos\, PSU\n5. Berlyn Bankhardt\, PSU\n6. Danica Helms\, PSU\n7. Zulyed Guerra\, PSU\n8. Bee Conn\, PSU\n9.\n10.\n11.\n12.\n13.\n14.\n15.
URL:https://nwnoggin.org/event/noggin-columbia-city-elementary/
LOCATION:Columbia City Elementary School\, 2000 2nd Street\, Columbia City\, OR\, 97018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Noggin @ Fort Vancouver!
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Noggin outreach at Fort Vancouver! \nWe did it!! \n \n \nWhat mediates neurodivergence? How do you get a diagnosis for ADHD and/or autism? \nWould a limb introduced during prenatal development be recognized and correctly incorporated? \nWhat part of the brain mediates the placebo effect?\nHow much electricity does the brain use/produce?\nWho are the brain donors? Are their memories still present in the preserved brains?\nDoes everyone have a switch that can allow trauma to produce sociopathic behavior?\nWhat is the surface area of the cortex/brain ‘unwrapped’?\nWhy are some people able to think of things and other people aren’t?\nWho was Phineas Gage? Did he improve his personality by taking psychedelics?\nAre you hungry? How does the brain know when you are hungry?\nWhat part of the brain causes unwanted or intrusive thoughts? \nWhat happens in the brain during dissociative states?  \n \n \nHow do our brains work when we feel something sad or happy?\nWhere is memory stored in the brain?\nWhy is the brain split into the right and left?\nWhat are the differences of the brain between men and women?l\nHow does memory work?\nIs it true that every wrinkle is a piece of knowledge?\nHow are neurons formed?\nWhat part of the brain sends the sexual needs a teenager has?\nWhat happens when your frontal lobe isn’t fully developed? \n \n \nWhy does brain fog happen?\nHow do seizures happen?\nElaborate on neurodivergent and more specifically ADHD & AudHD?\nDoes the brain get affected by disorders?\nCan depression be genetic?\nWhat’s the easiest part of the brain to confuse?\nWhy does people get disorders?\nWhy is there a genetic predisposition for OCD?\nWhat part of the brain does depression develop and other mental illnesses?\nWhat causes someone to be a sociopath and are there people out there with a higher chance of becoming one?\nWhat’s the craziest part of the brain? \n \n \nWhy do people smoke to relieve stress?\nHow does weed affect the brain?\nHow do drugs affect different parts of the brain?\nHow can all types of drugs affect us mentally?\nWhy are some of us easier to fall into a drinking or drug addict addiction since it runs in the family?\nDoes a drug still affect a mouse even after the drug is done?\nAre addictions genetic?\nHow does someone’s brain look different if they had SUD?\nWhat’s the worst drug to touch the brain?\nWhat part of the brain is the most affected by drugs?\nHow do you know when you’re addicted? \n \n \nHow does one hour of sleep affect the brain?\nHow much sleep is too much sleep?\nHow can I sleep faster and better so I don’t wake up so tired? \nHow does our brain create dreams?\nWhen we dream do we wake up before we fall because our brain doesn’t know what death looks like?\nWhy does my overthinking affect my sleeping patterns?\nWhat does your brain do while you are sleeping?\nHow does sleeping affect our brain? \n \n \nHave you ever dropped a brain?\nHow old are the brains?\nHow many brains have you studied?\nHow do you study each part of the brain?\nWhat’s the worst experience you’ve had with the brain? \n \n \nWHERE: Fort Vancouver High School\, 5700 E 18th St\, Vancouver\, WA 98661 \nWHEN: Thursday\, January 29\, 2026\, 8:30am – 3:00pm \n \nWe are super-excited to return to Fort!\nTwo years ago Vancouver Public Schools changed their high school start times to a more reasonable 8:40am\, based partly on neuroscience research presented in classrooms by Northwest Noggin outreach volunteers! \n \nCOME JOIN US!\nPlease email griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu to get involved 🙂 \nCOMMITTED PARTICIPANTS\n1. Bill Griesar\, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU\n2. Jeff Leake\, NW Noggin/PSU\n3. Becky Callos\, PSU\n4. Berlyn Bankhardt\, PSU\n5. Gabe Guarin\, PSU\n6. Danica Helms\, PSU\n7. Zulyed Guerra\, PSU\n8. Hayley Kopp\, Evergreen State College\n9. Daisy Graham\, Skidmore College\n10. Denesa Lockwood\, OHSU \nWe’ve visited Coreyanne Russell and James Cederstrom’s 9th through 12th grade classrooms for TWELVE YEARS. More details are at the links! \nTrapper Keeper!\n \nHey Vancouver: Let Kids Sleep!\n \nSleepy brains at Fort\n \nTired Trappers at Fort\n \nUploading your brain from Vancouver\n \nWhy do you study the brain?\n \nTrap Squad!\n \nBrains\, biofeedback & SLEEP\n \nVentricles in Vancouver!
URL:https://nwnoggin.org/event/noggin-fort-vancouver-8/
LOCATION:Fort Vancouver High School\, 5700 E 18th St\, Vancouver\, WA\, 98661\, United States
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