Posts tagged: health

Teen Health Science Café: Geek Girl Strong–The Game of Wellness

Robyn Warren, M.S. Ed. founder of Geek Girl Strong is here to help you create your own wellness plan! Learn the rules to The Game of Wellness, pick up some nutritional education, ideas on how to get and stay active, and find out what self-care really means to you. Come join us and find out how to gain Health, Experience,

Consumer Products & Your Health: An Intro to Environmental Health and Exposure Science

Our health is not entirely dictated by our genetics. It can also be affected by chemical and biological agents in our ambient environments--including built environments like our homes, schools, and workplaces. In the field of Environmental Health, the term 'health' refers to your health, and the term 'environment' refers to your personal surroundings: the air you breathe, the food you

The Neuroscience of Toxicity

This café focused on toxicity in the context of neuroscience as a whole field and how our nervous system works.

Hijacking Nature’s Machinery

Authored by Sirisha Gudavalli, Teen Leader Often times, the solutions to our toughest challenges can be taken from nature. In the past couple of years, scientists discovered the mechanism by which a bacterium protects itself against viral infection using a cellular defense system called CRISPR. CRISPR has many potential applications in science as a tool for genetic manipulation. Boulder’s