To set the stage for what we hope to achieve with these presentations, I wanted to include a few excerpts from the mission statement for the ‘I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out of Here!’ program that SciChats is modeled on. “….there has been a growing enthusiasm for “the public understanding of science”. This was originally […]
Scientist Profile: Abby Buchwalter
Name: Abby Buchwalter Hometown: Hopewell, New York Hobbies: running, cooking, knitting What do you study? I look inside cells to see how they are put together. You have probably learned what the different pieces of a cell are, but you may not know something really cool- that many of these pieces move around inside the cell. […]
Nuts and Bolts Part II: Scientist Profiles
In this post we are going to introduce the scientist profile format. The profiles will eventually be posted on the blog where the students and teacher can access them. I will send out instructions by email for logging in and posting your profile. The purpose of the scientist profile is to give the students a […]
Nuts and Bolts part I: The Overview
This will be the first of a few posts detailing how SciChats @ Salk is going to work. Let’s start with an overview of the concept for our inaugural run, starting in February 2014! First of all, we must thank Nancy Swanberg, who teaches science, math, and orchestra at Del Mar Hills Elementary. She contacted […]
Welcome to SciChats @ Salk!
SciChats @ Salk is a science outreach program that promotes interactions between researchers at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, and students at Del Mar Hills Elementary School in Del Mar, California. Our goal is to give students a forum to ask scientists specific questions about their field of research, as […]