Brain Awareness Fair 2013

On Tuesday 12 March we hosted our first ever Brain Awareness Fair! Check out the gallery for the pictures, and there are many more on the page of the Center for Excellence in Youth Education. Thanks to everyone who came or helped out!

Come and join us on Tuesday 12 March 2013 for our 1st Annual Brain Awareness Fair!

4:00pm – 7:00pm at Mount Sinai Hospital, West Lobby1468 Madison Avenue

Come and learn some brainy facts and fill your brain passport up with visits to our booths to win a prize!

Meet the Experts (Addiction, Autism, Cognition, Alzheimer’s disease)
Center for Excellence in Youth Education
Talk to a Psychiatrist
Decoding Your Brain
Build-a-Brain
Optical Illusions
Egg Drop
Dizzy Izzy
Animal Brains
See Inside a Brain
Challenge Your Brain!
Taste Test
Brain Food

and visit our special guests from the Alzheimer’s Association and Brain Injury Association

 

Brain Awareness Week event 1 week away!

Only a week to go until Brain Awareness Week kicks off! Make sure you get involved! Our event is Tuesday, March 12 from 4-7pm.

And come and support SNOP by buying something at our second BRAINY BAKE SALE to raise funds for the event! Wednesday, March 6, 10:30am-3pm just outside Mount Sinai’s cafeteria.

Bake sale for Brain Awareness Week!

Friday 15 February 2013

Our bake sale to raise funds for Brain Awareness Week was a big success!

The Sinai Neuorscience Outreach Program (SNOP) will be hosting a Brain Awareness Fair (as a part of Brain Awareness Week) on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 (Annenberg West Lobby) from 4:00-7:00 PM. The event will be an educational, interactive activities fair for elementary, middle, and high school students and their parents. Learn about the taste/smell connection, hold a real brain from a whale in your hands, meet our neuroscientist “myth busters,” build a neuron model, and more. Check out the details and “like” our Facebook page.

For other Brain Awareness Week events happening in New York City during the week 11-17 March 2013, check out the website or Facebook page.

Day With a Scientist (Brain Edition)

In November and December, 2012, SNOP joined the Center for Excellence in Youth Outreach at Mount Sinai School of Medicine to show junior high students the physiology and anatmoy of the brain. Check out the photos here and watch this space for our future events!

Brain Awareness Fair volunteers needed!

DO YOU LOVE BRAINS??!!????
If you answered YES (which you should), then it is your lucky day!!!!!!!!

The Sinai Neuorscience Outreach Program (SNOP) is looking for volunteers for the Brain Awareness Fair (as a part of Brain Awareness Week) on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 (Annenberg West Lobby) from 4:00-7:00 PM.
-SNOP will be hosting an educational, interactive activities fair for elementary, middle, and high school students of the local NYC area.

There will be a short informational meeting for interested volunteers on Monday, January 28, at 5:15 PM in Icahn 11-84.
-During this meeting you will meet our executive board, and we will discuss the expectations/requirements of our volunteers.

We look forward to seeing you at our meeting!
This will be a great opportunity to get involved with your fellow Sinai peers, and will also be a GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR RESUME!

We will also feed you candy and pizza at the fair :]

Please feel free to contact our Brain Awareness Co-Coordinators with any questions:
Ashley Russo (ashley.russo@mssm.edu)
Sarah Motley (sarah.motley@mssm.edu)

Brain Awareness Week Coming Soon!

Brain Awareness is held each march to promote awareness of global research in neuroscience. There will be lots of activities, and of course Sinai Outreach with the help of the Dana Foundation will be a part of it. For more information use this link:

http://www.dana.org/brainweek/