STEM Initiatives and Breakfast of Science Champions
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2015-05-06
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
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At STEM Initiatives' Breakfast of Science Champions, middle school students learn these things and more. Students come to OSU for a morning of hands-on exposure to science, technology, engineering, and math problems. They learn about the work conducted by various labs and then participate in activities and experiments reflecting the lab's work.
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IMPACT. 1: Approximately 400 students participated in the Breakfast of Science Champions events held in November. They visited 10 different labs across OSU. -- 2. Activities included flying flight simulators at the OSU Airport, using liquid nitrogen-frozen bananas as hammers at the Center for Emergent Materials, and examining ice cores at Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. -- 3. Evaluation of Breakfast of Science Champions found that the program: improved students' attitudes about science and scientists, increased students' interest in science careers, fostered students' aspirations for post-secondary education, helped students appreciate the importance of public understanding of science.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Arts and Sciences, STEM Initiatives; Biological Sciences Greenhouse Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center; Center for Applied Plant Sciences; Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging; Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics; Center for Emergent Materials College of Nursing; College of Optometry; Department of Astronomy Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering; Department of Food Science and Technology; Department of Physics; Insect Molecular Genetics; Neuroscience; Ohio 4-H Center/EcoBot Challenge; Ohio State Airport; Ohio State Planetarium Undergraduate Research Lab in Behavioral Ecology; Women in Engineering Program
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Columbus City Schools; The Metro School
PRIMARY CONTACT: Tracy Burdett (burdett.16@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: College of Arts and Sciences, STEM Initiatives; Biological Sciences Greenhouse Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center; Center for Applied Plant Sciences; Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging; Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics; Center for Emergent Materials College of Nursing; College of Optometry; Department of Astronomy Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering; Department of Food Science and Technology; Department of Physics; Insect Molecular Genetics; Neuroscience; Ohio 4-H Center/EcoBot Challenge; Ohio State Airport; Ohio State Planetarium Undergraduate Research Lab in Behavioral Ecology; Women in Engineering Program
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Columbus City Schools; The Metro School
PRIMARY CONTACT: Tracy Burdett (burdett.16@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 3 (2015).