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  • What’s a Teen Science Café?

    Teen Science Cafés are a free, fun way for teens to explore the big advances in science and technology affecting their lives. Teens and local scientists, engineers, and inventors engage in lively conversations and activities to explore a topic deeply.

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Leadership Building Activities for Youth

Leaders You Admire. Essentially this activity involves participants divided into groups and discussing leaders they know or know of and why they admire them.  Groups come back together for a larger discussion and communication session at the end.  An activity that helps define desirable leadership characteristics and improves team bonding.   Round Tables. This activity requires four

Asking Powerful Questions to Encourage Teen Leadership

How you question can open up (or shut down) new avenues for creativity in your leadership and café program.

Checklist for an Adult Leader – Creating Vibrancy Within the Teen Teen Leader Group

Download and print:  Checklist for an Adult Leader - Vibrancy of a Teen Science Café's Teen Leader Group  

Making the Most of Showing Up – Team Builders and Ice Breakers

Try these whole group activities (sometimes called "icebreakers") to help teen leaders 'gel' en route to becoming a team.  Some of them could also be used to help attendees at a Teen Science Café feel more comfortable with others in the room.

Teen Leadership: An Adult Leader’s Guide

This Leader's Manual from the University of Vermont 4-H Extension Program provides great guidance for adults to more effectively guide youth in their growth as leaders.
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