Brain Awareness YEAR ? 2019: PIs and PhD Students Visit 1K 4th-Grade Students Across Cordoba With the 5-Years-Old Activity ?Neuroscience of he Senses?

MARIA CONSTANZA PAZ; NAHIR GUADALUPE GAZAL; PAULA VIRGINIA SUBIRADA; CONSTANZA MILENA JANDAR PAZ; ALBERTO LEANDRO OLIVEROS; ANDREA GUZMAN; MARIA VICTORIA VAGLIENTI; SEBASTIAN MIRANDA; ASIER ANGULO; GENESIS DALOISIO; LAURA GASTALDI; VICTORIA PISANO; CECILIA SANCHEZ; NICOLAS UNSAIN

Congreso; XXXIV Congress of the Argentine Society for Research in Neuroscience; 2019

Argentine Society for Research in Neuroscience

Thanks to a grant from the Argentinean Society forNeuroscience Research (SAN) we participated in BrainAwareness Week 2019 with classroom activities in fourthgrade. ?Neuroscience of the Senses? explores the functionof the brain with respect to the five senses by means ofgames and hands-on demonstrations. The project startedwith preparing the materials to take to the classrooms,the instructors manual and contacting recipient schools. 13instructors were split in couples to reach classrooms of 20elementary schools imparting more than 33 classes. Theinstructors were mainly advanced PhD students and PIs.Two instructors would arrive at their designated schoolwith a box bearing all necessary materials and equipmentfor the class, which in some cases included carrying a microscopeand a projector. Instructors were previously trained ingroup sessions with others prospective instructors and thehelp of a manual that also included a suggested script. Theultimate goal is to build a periodic activity for BAW and tohelp colleagues to repeat it in their cities. During the posterpresentation we are going to share more details of the activityand the wonderful experience of interacting with themost curios creature in our galaxy: 10 years-old kids of H.sapiens sapiens. This could not have been done without thehelp from SAN, INIMEC, MinCyT-Cordoba (Cientıficos conVos y Voz) and CONICET-CCT/Cordoba.