Science Discovery’s Teen Science Café offers Boulder area teens opportunities to meet and interact with scientists in a fun and informal setting designed to inspire conversation and interaction. The Teen Science Café is always free and meets monthly during the academic year at the BioLounge at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History from 5:30-7PM on a Wednesday. See our website to RSVP.  See our archive of Past Scientist-presenters. The Science Discovery Teen Café is a founding member of the Teen Science Café Network.
Café topics span a wide range of STEM fields – from ecology to medicine to astrophysics! Topics and presenters are identified by our Youth Leadership Team, who help us guide the program and run the café events. Have questions about cafés or our Youth Leadership Team? Would you like to be on our Teen Café mailing list to be the first to know about upcoming cafés? Please contact Alexandra Rose via email.

Date first café held: 2013
Contributions to TeenScienceCafe.org: 

• Café summary: Old School: 80s Tech Escape Room (01/2019)
• Café summary: Stopping Criminals and Climate Change with…Chemistry (04/2018)
• Café summary: Sex in the Sea: The Importance of Reproduction in Marine Conservation Biology (03/2018)
• Café summary: Nanotech and Nanoscale: Tiny Science (11/2017)
• Café summary: The Science of Cancer: Using Genetics, Biochemistry, and Medicine to Save Lives (10/2017)
• Café summary: Science Speed Dating: Meet Your Science Soul Mate (10/2017)
• Member Spotlight: Kathryn Riddle Penzkover – “Listen to Your Teens”  (3/2017)
• Resource: Café Question Prompt Cards (8/2016)
• Resource: Template – Science Discovery Teen Cafe Youth Leadership Team Responsibility Sign Up (2016)
• Resource: The Café Experience – a one page description 
• Café summary: Bioengineering – A Lego Set of Biological Parts (10/2016)
• Café summary: Halloween Café: Ewww Disgusting! The Evolution and Neuroscience of Getting Grossed Out (11/2016)
• Member Spotlight: Alex Rose – Promoting Science Communication (9/2015)