Creativity and Science

NW Noggin volunteers headed to Southeast Portland this afternoon, to enjoy rather deep and thoughtful discussions about brain development and behavior with engaged and enthusiastic middle school students at Portland Public’s Creative Science School… We were welcomed by Brandan McClain, a Language Arts teacher who helped arrange our visit, and made certain his students…

Continue reading

2015 Summer Programs COMPLETE!

Our four Noggin outreach sites finished up this week with lessons, activities and treats! Check out what our talented and creative students from WSU Vancouver, PSU, the Pacific Northwest College of Art and OHSU collaboratively accomplished this summer in Portland and Vancouver… WSU/MESA program in Vancouver Sabin K-8 SUN program…

Continue reading

Summer 2015: Week 2 Complete!

Week 2 of our 2015 Summer Outreach Program is complete! Our participants had an action (potential) packed week of neuroscience and art integrated activities and lessons. To learn about the visual system, participants at Jason Lee created their own after-images!         Our students with the MESA program got the…

Continue reading

Summer 2015: Week 1 Complete!

The first week of the NW Noggin 2015 Summer Outreach Program is already over! We still have two more weeks of neuroscience and art curriculum in store for the four different sites participating this year, with specially designed lesson plans, neuroscience laboratory tours, sheep brain dissections, collaborative murals, games of synaptic…

Continue reading