There's nothing wrong with not knowing something.Ĭan you share any memorable moments from your sessions? It's also important if they ask me something I don't know to say I don't know it. It's nice to figure out what the kids are super interested in. Last time, we went from talking about bioenergy to talking about Lyme disease and deer ticks to the COVID-19 vaccines. I like to encourage the students to interrupt me and ask whatever off-the-wall questions they have. You never know what kids are going to ask! Some of the questions are pretty adorable. I encourage them to have some questions ready and to send them to me in advance, if possible, so that I can be prepared. What happens before and during each session?īeforehand, I send the teacher a link to the GLBRC website and to a Prezi overview of what we do at GLBRC. That's usually how it goes: a subset of the group is super interested. They were older kids and some of them were very, very interested in all the stuff that I had to say. That was interesting for a lot of reasons. I also did a session with a juvenile facility of incarcerated kids in California.

Most of the groups are in middle school or late-elementary. I've talked with students from early elementary-second or third grade as the youngest-up to high school. What kinds of student groups have you Skyped with? It kind of dovetailed, for better or worse, with the pandemic where no one can travel. This sounded like a really interesting and really easy way to do outreach. I had previously done a few other outreach things, and I've given talks at my alma mater, University of Evansville. I read about it somewhere on Twitter! I looked into it, and it looked really cool. How did you get involved with the program?

Skype a scientist program