January 2021 Network News
The Teen Science Café Network is committed to supporting your café program. We are grateful for your participation in our ongoing Network wide efforts and appreciate the feedback you have shared with us about your café program by Zoom, e-mail, phone call, and survey. For this, we are thankful!
We recently held the first Café Breaks, a virtual water cooler meeting series, where adult leaders shared their thoughts, ideas, opportunities, and challenges. This edition of the Network News contains a recap of our first meeting and an opportunity to register for the next Café Breaks on Thursday, January 21st at 5:00 PM (EST).
If you have an upcoming café that you want posted on our Café Calendar, send a message to louis@scieds.com.
Sincerely,
The TSCN Leadership Team
Michelle Hall
Michael Mayhew
Louis Jeantete
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TSCN hosted its first Café Breaks virtual water cooler meeting almost two weeks ago. Special thanks to the adult leaders who attended the Zoom meeting. Attendees had a lively conversation for 30 minutes. Adult leaders discussed & shared the various polling services they are using to foster participation in a remote environment. Here is a preliminary list of the polling or quizzing services adult leaders are using; some free, some offered with a paid subscription:
- Kahoot
- Mentimeter
- Pollev
- Poll Everywhere
- Vevox
Tell us what polling/quizzing platform(s) you are using to engage your virtual attendees. Send us a message with your preferred polling platform(s) to louis@scieds.com
CAFÉ Break Schedule:
January 7th & 21st | February 4th & 18th | March 4th & 18th | April 1st & 15th | May 6th & 20th | June 3rd & 17th
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What's your favorite STEM topic?
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In appreciation of our recent virtual water cooler session, we are hosting a poll! Tell us your 3 favorite STEM topics by participating in our word cloud poll on Mentimeter. We'll share the word cloud results in next month's newsletter. |
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January / Early February Cafés & Events
- Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | Network Analysis for Applications in Biology
- Thursday, January 21, 2021 | Café Breaks
- Thursday, January 21, 2021 | SC Codes Café
- Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | Harnessing Microbes to Protect the Environment
- Wednesday, February 3, 2021 | Ruminant Nutrition: The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Cow & Her Microbes
- Thursday, February 4, 2021 | Café Breaks
- Saturday, February 6, 2021 | Black Holes and Einstein’s Gravity
- Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | Secrets in the Rings: What Tree-Rings Can Tell us About our Past, Present, and Future Environments
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To submit an upcoming virtual café on the Virtual Café Calendar, please send Louis an e-mail with your virtual café's title, date & time, description, registration details, and a .png flyer (if available).
E-mail Louis: (louis@scieds.com)
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