Girls in Science and Engineering Summer Camp
Backyard brains was pleased to participate in the Health and Biomedical Sciences Summer Camp put on by UofM’s Women in Science and Engineering organization. The H&BS camp was a week-long set of activities with the goal of giving high school students hands-on experience in different health science related fields, and to broaden their perspectives about what health careers include (beyond/in addition to med school).
We received excellent feedback from the students, and we look forward to teaching more classes in the future. Stay tuned.
Posted: 2009-Jul-29 — Filed under: Education — Tags: K-12, Outreach, WISE
New Cockroach Species Arrives
We currently have used American Cockroaches (Periplaneta americana) in our experiments, but we have to order them from Carolina Biological Supply in North Carolina, and they are a bit expensive due to live animal shipping charges. No angst towards that fantastic company, but we have been looking for a local supplier that can give us cockroaches at reduced cost. Fear not! Pet Supplies Plus, within walking distance of our labs and workshops can provide us Discoid Cockroaches (Blaberus discoidalis) at ~$10/dozen! I picked some up last week, they are actually rather cute and look like giant roly-polys. Guess we’ll have some company on our roadtrip to Kansas City to visit the Kauffman Foundation…
Posted: 2009-Jul-15 — Filed under: Education — Tags: biology, Cockroach, discoid
Evan joins Backyard Brains
Backyard brains is proud to announce the addition of our first intern! Evan, a gifted high-schooler, will be joining the Backyard Brains team as a part of the University of Michigan’s mentorship program. Evan’s tasks will include working with the OLPC to get it up and running.
Our Backyard Brains weekly meeting in the home workshop is shown above. From left to right: Greg, Evan, and Tim.
Posted: 2009-Jun-19 — Filed under: Education, OLPC — Tags: Mentorship, Outreach