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Young Minds
24 Apr 2014
Frontiers for Young Minds Launches at USA Science and Engineering Festival
Frontiers for Young Minds, the science education initiative where kids review articles by leading scientists, officially launches this week at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington D.C. Frontiers for Young Minds is a web-based science journal that involves young people in the review of scientific articles with the help of scientists who act as mentors. It empowers young people by giving them a decisional role in the process of science communication and helps to engage the next generation of scientists. The initiative has so far involved 86 young people, aged 5 to 16, who act as reviewers, and 79 mentors. Popular articles include “The amazing history of neuroscience”, “Facebook, being cool and your brain: what science tells us” and “The scientific significance of sleep talking”. The pilot project was announced at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in November 2013 and has been enthusiastically received by scientists, children, schools and families across the world. The official launch at the USA Science and Engineering Festival showcases the new design of the Frontiers for Young Minds website with a selection of 20 new science papers, written in a language that everyone can understand. Join us at the Frontiers […]