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Atlanta Brains Rule! Neuroscience
Exposition at Zoo Atlanta
Join
us for a day of hands-on, minds-on neuroscience fun!
Saturday
March 19, 2005
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Open to the public with Zoo admission!
Zoo Atlanta
Get directions (link to Zoo Atlanta).
Download a save-the-date reminder to post in your home,
office, church, or school!
Our
annual event is coming soon in March! Remember how much
fun you had last year? Remember how much you learned? Come
again to touch a human brain! See your own EEG! Test your
senses! Compare dolphin brains and manatee brains! Act like
a neurotransmitter! Create and take home your own Brain
Art! Visitors of all ages will enjoy our activities and
information. You can take the opportunity to interact with
graduate students, faculty, and community professionals.
You can get information on summer programs for kids or young
adults. Explore our booths at your own pace and go home
with door prizes and free brain goodies.
On March 18, 2005, the Expo organizers will invite 90 middle
school students to Zoo Atlanta to participate in a “reverse
science fair”. The adults (scientists and health professionals)
create exhibits and children critique the presentations
for their ability to explain a basic of applied concept
in neuroscience, and how much fun they create! If you would
like to create an exhibit, download instructions here.
The
Brains Rule! Neuroscience Exposition is funded by the Center
for Behavioral Neurscience as well as a Science Education
Drug Abuse Partnership Award to the University of Nebraska
at Omaha from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The
project employs an innovative, flexible, science education
outreach model that brings neuroscience professionals into
local communities to help both children and adults learn
about the nervous system.
A
major focus of the project is to improve the general science
literacy of the public by increasing their awareness of
neuroscience through demonstrations of important interconnections
among basic, diagnostic, clinical and applied neuroscience
related to everyday life and function. The National Science
Education Standards define science literacy as “the
knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes
required for personal decision-making, participation in
civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity.”
The
Expo is sponsored locally by the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience,
Zoo Atlanta, the Atlanta Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience,
the Epilepsy Foundation of Georgia, and the Atlanta Center
for Cognitive Therapy
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