Organize 12 school visits and entertain 400 kids in 2 weeks and live to tell the story: What we learned from ?Neuroscience of the Senses? during BAW 2015 in Córdoba Elementary schools

DAMIÁN REVILLO; ERIC SIGWALD; LEANDRO FREITES; ANDREA GUZMAN; INÉS ZALOSNIK; PAULA AVALOS; FRANCO MIR; ANA VIVINETTO; EVELIN COTELLA; VICTORIA ROZES; AGUSTÍN ANASTASIA; PABLO HELGUERA; MARIANO BISBAL; NICOLÁS UNSAIN

Mar del Plata

Congreso; SAN XXX Anual Meeting; 2015

Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias (SAN)

Thanks to a grant from the Argentinean Society for Neuroscience Research (SAN) weparticipated in Brain Awareness Week 2015 with classroom activities in 4th grade.?Neuroscience of the Senses? explores the function of the brain with respect to the fivesenses by means of games and hands-on demonstrations. The project started withpreparing the materials to take to the classrooms, the instructor´s manual and contactingrecipient schools. 14 instructors were split in couples to reach classrooms of 12 elementaryschools imparting more than 30 classes. The instructors were mainly advanced PhDstudents from the public-outreach group ?Jóvenes Investigadores de Neurociencias?, aswell as some investigators from Instituto Ferreyra. Two instructors would arrive at theirdesignated school with a box bearing all necessary materials and equipment for the class,which in some cases included carrying a microscope and a projector. Instructors werepreviously trained in group sessions with others prospective instructors and the help of amanual that also included a suggested script. The ultimate goal is to build a periodicactivity for BAW and to help colleagues to repeat it in their cities. During the posterpresentation we are going to share more details of the activity and the wonderfulexperience of interacting with the most curios creature in our galaxy: 10 years-old kids of Hsapiens sapiens. This could not have been done without the help from SAN, INIMEC, SECYTUNC,CONICET AND JIN.