G.d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara

15 March – Researchers played with school children (9-10 years old) who have become familiar with the functions of the brain through games and group competitions, training their senses supervised by their teachers. 15-16 March – Two mornings dedicated to “visit” the neuroscience. Groups of school students (9-10 years old, 13-14 years old, 15-19 years old) visited the labs of the CeSI-MeT research center of the University of Chieti-Pescara, where the students participated to some experiments concerning learning and memory tests on small animals. The younger students were fully excited and older ones deeply interested! 17 March – Regional Brain Bee competition. The first five best students (selected locally at each school on February) from the high schools of Pescara, Sulmona (AQ), L’Aquila, Francavilla al mare, Ortona (CH) and Giulianova (TE), participated to the regional selection of the National Brain Bee. The first three best students, Michelangelo D’Andrea, Michela Lepore, Andrea Valeri, will attend to the National competition in Pisa, Italy. 19 March – Researchers and Psychologists met the school students (13-14 years old) and discussed on different topics concerning the brain health: how the brain feeds itself, what foods are good for proper nutrition, what lifestyle to take for psycho-physical wellbeing, what are the main eating disorders and how to identify, correct, and treat them.

To be an international network spreading the knowledge on neuroscience field.

Each year we have regular fixed appointments and new events, in both situations we make new experience and try to involve much people. From our experience in these last years, the followings are the milestone of our work. Considering that BAW is on March, to organize a school program, Directors and School staff should be contacted on September when they plan their academic year programs, at least in Italy. Then, if proposals are accepted, the activities should be defined on December keeping in touch with the Teachers in order to prepare the scholars at the best. Moreover it must consider the time necessary to publicize the events.