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Teen Science Cafés for Lifelong Impact
Teen Science Cafés empower teens to grasp the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics discoveries changing our lives.  The Cafés open doors to these careers by connecting teens with professionals who share their passion and enthusiasm for their work.  Teen Cafés enhance teens' ability to use facts to support scientific points of view, to consider societal impacts of discoveries, and fortify science as a cornerstone in their lives.
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The Importance of the Adult Leader


 

The “secret of success” of the Teen Science Café model is that it is designed to be both for and by the teens. This is one of the six Core Design Principles of the Teen Science Café Network. However, great Adult Leadership helps guide the successes of the Teen Leaders in Teen Science Cafés. As we begin a new season of teen science cafés, we are grateful for all the adult leaders who continually inspire the teen leaders in their growth as leaders.  Through your efforts to guide the local programs, you are providing a critical stepping stone for teens all across the U.S. and beyond to explore and expand their STEM knowledge, interest, engagment and identity.  We thank you for your generosity!
 
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Webinar

Build Your Teen Audience:
Start A Teen Science Café 



Wed, September 11, 2019
12:00 PM PST / 1 MST/ 2 CST/ 3 EST 

Teen Science Cafés are free, fun way for teens to explore the big advances in science and technology affecting their lives. Teens and STEM experts engage in lively conversations and activities. They are based on six Core Design Principles. We will explore the principles in depth to show how they result in strong programs that increase teens STEM interest, engagement, and identity. 

Register for the Webinar:  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5711073802390156300

 

Welcome Our New Members

With the addition of the South Carolina Aquarium, our Network now has 8 Aquaria!  
Thank you for all our Aquaria members and keep promoting Teen Cafés to your colleagues!
 
The South Carolina Aquarium Teen Science Café hopes to bring teens in (ages 13-17) to learn about various science topics that relate to the Aquarium. We’ll have pizza or some sort of snack and will work with community partner, and hope to offer at least 4 cafés a year. 
 
Inside will give students the chance to explore the front lines of STEM by making innovation accessible. Each month, we invite speakers from a variety of fields to share their insights among aspiring scientists and engineers. We encourage our community of young thinkers to delve further into interests by connecting them with experts with whom they can pursue further opportunities. We also hold a weekly podcast featuring both presenters and students.

 


 

Join the Teen Science Café movement today! 
If you have colleagues working in STEM outreach, we would appreciate your alerting them to the opportunity of participating in the Teen Science Café Network. Membership is free, and members get all the help they need in starting and successfully running a Teen Science Café program.

Key Resource of the Month

Key Leadership: An Adult Leader's Guide
 

 

Cool Cafés and Spotlights

Snack Food 101
Delaware Teen Science Café learned about their favorite snack foods. They learned about production, and how food safety and quality checks are made to ensure safe, consistent products.
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Earthquake Detection
Teens at Sammamish Teen Science Café, in Washington, learned about earthquakes and how they occur and why they happen. Also discussed was to do in the event of an earthquake. Teens 
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Mind Control
STEM Savvy learned about brains. They learned how brains operate and how easily their brains can be tricked. With the use of an EEG they were able to track brain activity under increased workloads.
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Fire Evacuation Using GIS
Teens at EYH Teen STEM in San Diego learned how to use GIS software to look at historic fires that happened in their area and used the GIS software to develop escape routes from home to safety in the event that there is another fire near them.  
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Science, Fun, and Pizza!
NIU Teen STEM Café had a successful year ending with a café on Storm Chasers. Learn about their ebbs and flows in the year and how they ended on a high note.
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Spotlight on Rhea Waldman
Rhea Waldman talks about STEM SAVVY Teen Science Café in Pierre, SD, and their early successes, especially in building strong Teen Leadership. She also talks about the learning curve in the first season and how they adapted in their first three cafés.
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This work is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant    #1223830. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this  material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.






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