{"id":3878,"date":"2017-10-26T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:35:20","slug":"experience-science-day-lets-talk-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3878","title":{"rendered":"Experience Science Day, Let&#8217;s Talk Neuroscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fall Experience Science Day 2017<\/strong> Don\u2019t let the November rain get you down! Join us for Experience Science Day! An annual event that welcomes 200 elementary school students from Downtown East Side to UBC to experience hands-on scientific activities.\u00a0 Thanks to volunteers like you this program has become highly successful and is held twice each year, reaching twice as many youths and encouraging their participation in science. We\u2019re looking for enthusiastic volunteers to run hands-on science activities, including Rube Goldberg Device construction, for groups of 20-30 students in Grades 4-7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>:\u00a0November 8th, 2017.\u00a09:00am-2:30pm <strong>Where<\/strong>: UBC <strong>Who<\/strong>: Grades 4-7 Students<\/p>\n<p>Interested volunteers please sign up here (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/sh5zGgXca6rK4pjr1\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/sh5zGgXca6rK4pjr1<\/a>) or contact Andrew atcommunity@ubclts.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s Talk Neuroscience High School Symposium<\/strong> Let&#8217;s Talk Science is partnering up with the Belkin Art Gallery on campus which is hosting the works of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the father of neuroscience, to bring forth the Let&#8217;s Talk Neuroscience symposium for students in grades 9-12. We need enthusiastic volunteers who can help facilitate demos, guide students across the campus, and several other tasks. The symposium will feature a keynote talk by Dr. Cheryl Wellington, neuroanatomy demo by Dr. Claudia Krebs, and a tour of the Cajal exhibit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Nov 20th, 2017. 9:00am-3:30pm <strong>Where: <\/strong>UBC (Centre for Brain Health) <strong>Who: <\/strong>Grades 9-12 students<\/p>\n<p>Interested volunteers please sign up here (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/PWagGTN51Zn6sDhx1\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/PWagGTN51Zn6sDhx1<\/a>) or contact Evelyn at\u00a0community@ubclts.com.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Events Coordinator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Email: community@ubclts.com<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubclts.com\/\">www.ubclts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @ubclts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Experience Science Day 2017 Don\u2019t let the November rain get you down! Join us for Experience Science Day! An annual event that welcomes 200 elementary school students from Downtown East Side to UBC to experience hands-on scientific activities.\u00a0 Thanks to volunteers like you this program has become highly successful and is held twice each&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}