Cool Cafés

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.

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

Engaging in Environmental Science

This was Discovery's first ever café. It was brought together by a few students from a near by high school. Being that this was our first café, and not having anything to model it after in our area, we tried the best we could to just get an event started. It turned out to be an hour long

Biomedical Technology

The focus of April’s Teen Science Café was Biomedical Technology. The speaker was Ms. Brittney Bender, Master’s Candidate in the Biomedical Technology Program at Morehouse School of Medicine. Ms. Bender started the café talking about her journey to becoming a STEM professional. How she enjoyed and was good at science all of her life. Ms. Bender is an

Forensics of Fingerprints

Written by Patricia Faulk, Teen Leader. Edited by Anna Prince, Teen Leader. Whip out your detective gear for the latest Open Minds Teen Science Café Whiteville about fingerprinting. In this café, Police Detective Ron Guyton from the Whiteville Police Department returned to give his second café this season, and lead the teens through an interactive program where participants learned

Visualization of DNA

On Wednesday, April 25th, the Penn Museum Teen Ambassadors hosted our second Teen Science Café. Our speaker was Raquel Fleskes, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology whose work focuses on using genetics to answer questions about migration and settlement patterns during the colonial period in North America. She visited the Penn Museum to talk to teens about the