Event(s) Summary
Number of Events Organized During Brain Awareness Week:
1
Year:
2019
Type of Events Held:
- Other
- Other: Neuroscience Fair
Target Audiences:
- Elementary school students(1-5)
- General Public
- Middle school students(6-8)
Approximate Number of People Reached:
300 kids
Details of Major Brain Awareness Week Events/Activities:
We hosted our annual Neuroscience Fair with 16 exhibits at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Our exhibits include: holding human brains, egg drop to learn about head injuries, neuroprosthetics with Backyard Brains to crafts activites to make a neuron model out of pencils and pipe cleaners. The activities range in target age from young elementary school to middle school.
Event Planning & Publicity
Publicity Methods Used:
- Calendar Listings (newspapers, radio, television)
- Posters/Flyers
- Website
- Social Media
Resources
Of the Dana Foundation publications/resources distributed at your event(s), if any, please indicate the three most popular. Please choose up to three. If "other," please indicate below:
- More Mindbogglers!
- BAW Stickers
- The Mindboggling Workbook
What other downloadable materials would you like the Foundation to provide?
- New Fact Sheets
- Activities/Experiments
- New Puzzles/Games
- New Coloring Sheets
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