Back in Time (Historic Restoration and Chemistry)

This YOCO Teen Science Café was really about exploring different techniques and skills needed in historic restoration. Mr. Joe Mester and Ms. Sara Johnson work for the Culture & Heritage Museums.  They are both conservationists and preservationists and their job is to restore old structures while keeping them historically accurate to the time period when they were built. 

In My Feelings! The Science of Emotions

All of us experience stress and negative emotions in our lives for many different reasons. Maybe you have a big test coming up that has you way stressed. Or maybe you just had a big fight with your parents or best friend. What better time to talk about emotions than at the Central Texas Teen Science February café

The Science of Coffee

Have you ever thought about where coffee comes from and how it is made? Many people drink it everyday but few know the science behind coffee production. If you're like me, you buy your coffee from the grocery store or the local coffee shop but never stop to think about where that coffee came from or the long

Spotlight—Cynthia Spratley

Tell us in a nutshell about your TSC program? The genesis for the York County Teen Science Café began in 2014, at a museum conference in Raleigh, NC where I chose to sit in a break-out session that the NC Museum of Natural Science was hosting about Teen Cafés. I had never experienced what the speakers described,

Spotlight on Lauren Traister

  To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? We started the VTeen 4-H Science Pathways Café in the Fall of 2017. The initial group of teen leaders spent the Fall designing all aspects of the café – location, time, logo, topics and

How Energy Storage Works & Why It Matters

Cool Café write up by Samantha Blackmore, Teen Leader At our most recent VTeen 4-H Science Pathways Café on February 2nd, we had 71 teens welcome members from UVM’s Alternative Energy Racing Organization. AERO is a club dedicated to the study, implementation, and building of hybrid race cars. The AERO team showcases their work in multi-level competitions

Avalanche!

Teens in Boulder learned about avalanche safety, and about reading the warning signs and avoiding dangerous areas, also how to respond during an avalanche.

Summer Cafés – Yes, You Can!

It might seem funny to post about summer in the winter, but this is a great time to start considering making the leap to summer cafés! Read on to see how Taking Flight Nights at Tracy Aviary got their start during the summer… Motivation to Inspiration Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City, Utah had a problem. Its reputation as a

Baking Up Culinary Chemistry

Written by Youth Programs Coordinator Megan McKay For our January edition of Taking Flight Nights, Salt Lake City’s Teen STEAM Café held a café about science in the culinary arts. Dr. Robyn Hyde of Westminster College came to teach teens about the chemistry involved in baking! All living matter consist of chemicals. So, when baking delicious treats