Spotlight

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

Spotlight on Bethany Fortune

To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? Our program is located in Long Beach, California and we currently host about 4 cafés each year. Being in an aquarium makes us sort of unique. We not only have access to amazing staff and researchers but the

Spotlight On Carmen Raterman

  To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? The SciBucs Teen Science Café was started in the Spring of 2017. We started with two members for our teen leadership; Emma Edmund and Chrissy Augustine are the founding members of our Café. We

Spotlight on Amy Jernigan

  To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? Teen Science Café Whiteville is situated in southeastern NC, about an hour west of Wilmington. Since it’s a rural area, we see a mix of teens from a variety of neighboring towns and counties.

Spotlight on Central Texas

                  What are your backgrounds... how did you come to be involved with your Teen Café program? Emily: I have a BS in Biology and an MA in Museum Studies. I was hired at

Teen Co-Founder of Bay Area Teen Science Café — Spotlight on Manav Shah

To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What’s special or unique about it? The Bay Area Teen Science Café program invites students in middle school and high school to come listen to scientific speakers, engage in interactive activities with them, and learn about a new

Reaching for the Stratosphere-Spotlight on Melissa Burt

  To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? The Front Range Teen Science Café is located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Close proximity to Colorado State University has its advantages. The pool of scientists to choose from allows us to locate interesting speakers that

Spotlight on Marti Copeland

To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? Our Teen Café is at the Dallas Zoo! At the Zoo, we do science every day, and we have a very engaged teenage audience. Starting a Teen Science Café was a great way to offer more to our

Spotlight on Allison Brody & Explora’s Teen STEM Café in Albuquerque, NM

To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Science Café program? What's special or unique about it? Explora hosts a Portal to the Public (PoP) training program for STEM professionals each year. In this PoP training we work with scientists and engineers to develop their communication skills and prepare them for conversations

Spotlight on Anthonette Peña & Southeast San Diego STEAM Café

To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? Our program is hosted at the Elementary Institute of Science (EIS), a local STEM non-profit in Southeast San Diego. What makes our Teen Café program special is that we have a 15,000 ft building with 8

Spotlights on Janice McDonnell & Christine Bean – 4-H Teen Café

To start with, can you tell us in a nutshell about your Teen Café program? What's special or unique about it? Our 4-H Teen Café launched this past 2016-17 school year, with the fall devoted to planning and then our inaugural series of 3 cafes in the spring. We have a core group of ~15 teens that