Project NEURON, in collaboration with the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum, successfully completed the 2nd annual Faces in Neuroscience Discovery (FIND) Orphy summer camp on July 22-26, 2013. Katie Hicks, Education Coordinator at the Orpheum Museum, organized the registration of campers and served as liaison between campers’ families and FIND Orphy camp leaders which successfully led to the registration and participation of 25 students entering K-5th grade in the FIND Orphy summer camp. Kristen Talbot and Tommy Wolfe, both Project NEURON fellows, along with Emily Baltz and Rachel Gonzalez, undergraduate students majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology with an emphasis on neuroscience, led activities modified from Project NEURON units and borrowed from both BrainU, a SEPA-funded group from the University of Minnesota, and Eric Chudler’s website on Neuroscience Education from the University of Washington. The activities were modified from several of Project NEURON's classroom curriculum units.
Activities included: planarian observation and regeneration experiments, mitosis candy models, neuron modeling using candy and beads, owl vs. lark survey, light meter experiment, colored candy sorting, effects of energy drinks on planarians, biomagnifications game, honey bee hive observations and the honey bee roles game. Lesson plans enacted at the FIND Orphy summer camp will be available on the FIND Orphy page in the future.