WHAT: Noggin outreach at Fort Vancouver! We did it! LEARN MORE AT THE LINK Uploading your brain from Vancouver WHERE: Fort Vancouver High School, via ZOOM (links to come) WHEN: Tuesday, February 2, 8:35am – 2:05pm TUESDAY’S SCHEDULE 8:35am – 10:00am Honors Biology (James Cederstrom) 10:15am – 11:40am AP…
WHAT: Reconnecting our Brains, One Cell at a Time. A FREE Society for Neuroscience global webinar with NW Noggin & BrainFacts.org We did it! LEARN MORE AT THE LINK! Reconnecting Our Brains, One Cell at a Time WHERE: EVERYWHERE! 🧠🎨🤝❤️ Register for the FREE webinar WHEN: Thursday, June 24, 2020,…
We did it! We made art. We built our own brain cells. We created synapses and networks and re-connected brains. But please: keep going! We enjoyed a *FREE, GLOBAL, ALL AGES* webinar in June 2020, a collaboration between NW Noggin and BrainFacts.org. AND WE ENJOYED A SECOND FREE GLOBAL WEBINAR ON…
Before COVID-19, Noggin had a FULL schedule of immersive volunteer outreach visits on the calendar for spring, including public art and science talks, school sessions, community experiences – even exciting road trips to Poulsbo, Washington and Bend, Oregon! But how do you engage in outreach during a pandemic? The core…
WHAT: Noggin Online with 6th – 8th graders in Portland Public Schools! We did it! Learn more at the link. Pandemic connections WHERE: Google Hangout for Creative Science, Portland Public Schools WHEN: Thursday, May 14 (& 21, 28), 10:00am – 10:45am CONTACT: Brandan McClain, 6-8th grade Language Arts/Social Studies Get…
“The mistakes pointed out the problems with the project, pushing the maker to improve upon them.” –Mark Frauenfelder Making things, experimenting, responding to what’s in front of you, thinking about your options, steps and consequences, learning from your own mistakes and converting your developing ideas and data into tangible objects,…
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” ― Maya Angelou We love community connections. NW Noggin joined Clatsop Community College and both Warrenton and Astoria Public Schools this week for a research-based return to Oregon’s North Coast! LEARN MORE: Accumbens in Astoria Nine outreach adherents spent two nights in…
Post by Aaron Eisen, PSU graduate in Psychology and Social Science, OHSU research/teaching assistant, graduate student at the National University of Natural Medicine, and NW Noggin Resource Council member for Communications There is a renaissance of psychedelic therapy underway, and growing interest in the underlying mechanism of these medicines as…
Post by Liam Armstrong, high school senior at Pacific Crest Community School, avid cyclist, and lover of math and science. Liam approached NW Noggin this year with fascinating questions about why it was so difficult to adapt to a bicycle built to defy rider expectations. He first wanted to build…
“Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not” ― Ursula LeGuin High schoolers, teachers, staff and our brain-obsessed NW Noggin volunteers awoke before dawn on a cool, crisp December morning, all headed to David Douglas High School. David Douglas, named after a 19th century botanist from Scotland (and the…