Caltech Education Outreach Program 5/6/16

At our last Arts Collective After School of the year we had Caltech's education outreach program on the campus to run a event on Neuroscience. The event started off with a quick talk on Neuroscience, focused particularly on the Stroop effect. The Stroop effect is when the brain has difficulty reading a color word in a different color pigment. Here is a link to more information on the Stroop effect test if you are interested, 

http://www.onlinebraingamesblog.com/online-brain-games/a-very-cool-brain-game-the-stroop-effect-test
  
Kids were able to print t-shirts using stencils that referenced the Stroop effect during the event. There were also two other activities, one with visual illusions based in Neuroscience and one where kids were able to look at, handle and watch dissections of sheep's brains.
Caltech had three students and a researcher at the event who engaged and interacted with the kids, answering all sorts of questions.

Thank you so much to Caltech's Educational outreach program for coming to the school, and to Friends of Mt Washington with help for the funding of the shirts and to Philip Soderlind for cutting the stencils.