Interactive Science Talks for Schoolchildren

  • MB&B student demonstrating diffusion
    MB&B student demonstrating diffusion
  • Discussing electron microscopy
    Discussing electron microscopy
  • Sackler/NSF REU undergraduate working with students on the macroscopic vs. microscopic image matching exercise
    Sackler/NSF REU undergraduate working with students on the macroscopic vs. microscopic image matching exercise
  • presenting about glowfish
    Hearing about what inspired one PEB graduate student to study science
  • Sketching out ideas for building a tower using toothpicks and marshmallows
    Sketching out ideas for building a tower using toothpicks and marshmallows
  • Building a tower
    Building a tower and practicing iterative design
  • Students raising their hands
    Students were very intrigued by the topics discussed and had lots of questions!
  • classroom
    A Science Diplomat discussing why roads are salted in the winter time.
  • making ice cream
    Making home made ice cream
  • eating the ice cream
    And the ice cream tasted good enough to eat
  • eating lunch
    Eating lunch together and talking about science and life in general
  • making polymers
    Making polymers in the form of silly putty.
  • actin
    Building an actin fiber from 3D printed monomers.
  • computational biology
    Learning about the uses of computational biology from an MCGD/PEB graduate student pursuing computation.
  • learning about light
    Learning about light from a 2016 Sackler/NSF REU participant
  • performing chromatography
    Using chromatography to separate out various colors of markers.
July 1, 2015

Gallery of IGPPEB students and others working with elementary and middle school students.