Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

All the events were very successful this year. We organized two workshops for professionals and university students: (1) Neuroscience and Education, (2) Neuroscience and Engineering. Both subscriptions were full in less than one day. We also organized an interactive exhibit for children and families. The exhibit were organized in the following sections: 1) Brain Morphology – Exhibition of real brains and models of different animals – human, owl, bee, fish, etc. 2) Sensory system – Presentation of models of how the sensory systems work. Games with sensorial illusions to exemplify how to it works and how to manipulate it. 3) Neuromyths – Game with questions about the brain, asking if the sentence is true or false. 4) Electricity in the brain – Demonstration of how electrical stimulation can move the subject arm and the cockroach leg. We also organized a special “Neurotalk”, which is a monthly event. In this Neurotalk, we did a round-table regarding Mental Health. In addition, we organized a special “Neuroscience, Cinema and Popcorn”, which is also a monthly event. We exhibit the movie “Her” with comments of a neuroscientist and discussion with the public. We gave interviews about the brain for the University radio and four different channel stations.

We distributed forms to be filled by the participants and the feedback was amazing. Most of the people rated the events as Excellent. Teachers of the students who went to the events gave a really good feedback too, showing reports from the students.