Squid Science

Making Waves held a café on squid and their behaviors. The immune system was talked about and for an activity, teens got to dissect squid.

Emergency Response Technology

Emergency Response was the topic at a recent Rio Rancho Café Scientifique. Understanding and evaluating an emergency situation were addressed.

Spotlight on Chiara Paleari

  To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? Los Alamos is a very unique place: a tiny little town in the New Mexico mountains with a National Laboratory that employs more than ten thousand people. Many of the teenagers who attend our

The Science of Stress

This write-up was written by Teen Leader Noelani Rupp   On September 22, 2018 the latest installment of VTeen 4-H Science Pathways Café featured, Allie Sullivan. Sullivan spoke eloquently to our group of teens on the Science of Stress. Sullivan, in the process of earning her PhD in the joint Clinical and Developmental Psychology program at UVM,

Lightning and the Global Electric Circuit

This blog was written by Making Waves Teen Leader Claudia Garcia On February 26th, the Making Waves Teen STEM Café of the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi hosted its Café on the topic of lightning and the global electric circuit. During this Café, our guest speaker was Thomas Lavigne. Mr. Lavigne is a Ph.D student at Texas A&M

Mash Up of Cool Cafés in Baton Rouge

        The T.E.A.M. Science Café was incorporated into the national award winning EnvironMentors program out of LSU. After joining Teen Science Café Network, Program Coordinator, Brian Matherne, decided to do a trial of demonstrations and presentations using the TSCN guidelines during their spring meetings. The result was four great discussions involving

Environmental Science

SEM Link hosted a Teen Science Café on Friday, July 27th at the Summer Institute for the Chief Scientific Officer Program. The Chief Scientific Officer program is a program of the Atlanta Science Festival, in which middle and high school serve as leaders in their schools. Hence the name, Chief Scientific Officer. The purpose of the program is

Hurricane Harvey at the Texas State Aquarium

This blog was written by Making Waves Teen Leader, Sierra Spears Would you be prepared for a hurricane? Well, the Texas State Aquarium was prepared for Hurricane Harvey. On January 29th, the Texas State Aquarium held a Making Waves Teen STEM Café with presenter Jeff Vlach, the Aquarium’s IT Manager. Jeff planned ahead and mapped out all of

Spotlight on Jen Parsons

  To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? Our Southeast Ohio Teen Science Café is relatively new – we just hosted our first café in January of 2018. We are located in Southeast Ohio, in a university town surrounded by beautiful woodsy hills and