From January 19th to the 21st, YES teens participated in the Minority Scientist Showcase at the St. Louis Science Center. This event showcased advanced science and technology being used right here in St. Louis by local businesses, organizations, and corporations. Our teens even got the chance to show off some of their science knowledge to the community by guiding visitors and their families through various hands-on science activities.

Teens facilitated the following activities:

• Static Balloon Bulb
• Crime Scene Investigators
• Straw Windmills
• DNA Necklaces
• Thaumatropes
• Balance Boards
• Static Can Races
• Anti-Gravity Penny
• Stomp Rockets

 

Click here to see more pictures from the Minority Scientist Showcase.

Today we DidN't have a usual saturday session. From the outside looking in one would suspect that we(learning places as a whole) didnt make that much progress-----but in actuality we did.

Right arounnd about 12 o'clock the learning lab got a little out of control. Mesa, the HEad SUpervisor(haha felixlol), took it upon herself to confront us learning places teens of our unproffesional behavior. to make a long story short---------we ended up having an interesting discussion where we brainstormed, reflected, dicussed etc ways to better conduct our LP work. This discussion was beneficial. Both the supervisors and teens appropriately expressed thier greivances but also admitted to their mistakes.---------------the end

Today, was okay,but i am going to be honest..it wasn't fun at all!

Today we took an online test to see our strengths in our skills. We were told what our strengths were and what they meant.  Then we made our own puzzles by cutting out a big poster in some shapes. Then we did an activity where one person would be the child learning the activity and one would be the teacher teaching them. The point of it was to teach in inquiry. It didnt go so well. Then we compared inquiry to normal teaching.

Today was kinda okay. We started off working good with our scans were we went online to find our strengths. After that we went back to the class then we did an activity. The activity was hard because no one knew what they were supposed to do. We later discussed the activity in a big group. It became chaos because half the class was paying attention and the other half were just playing around. We stopped everything and had a group discussion about how we would continue. Everyone decided to stay so we then talked about why everything went wrong. After that we all said what we thought we should change to become better. Everyone was focused once again and the world was at peace so we ended the day and went and blogged. After all of that I felt that today we accomplished a lot. That's what happened today in the LP. Everyone have a nice day and peace out.

Today was a very hectic day. We were asked to do multiple things at a time and had to work very diligently. We alternated taking turns at explaining our activity to kids(other employees). And then we talked about the pros and cons of the inquiry activity and what could be worked on or how it could be better. Also, we held a discusion with our yes supervisors and talked about what we would like to see in the curriculum.Then they told us what they would like to see more from us...so next week we will try to input some of those thoughts!

Today is my first saturday back since october,and it was a very chaotic one at that. But overall 'm glad to be back and excited to begin this 2nd semester. I was a little disappointed to have missed the 1st semester, but I had, and still have a very chaotic schedule and it would've conflicted with the program.