Flexin Our Mussels at Seattle Expanding Your Horizons
Last Saturday, with amazing help of Roberts Lab undergrads Jessica Blanchette and Katie Robinson as well as Anne Baxter from NOAA’s NWFSC, I led a workshop called ‘Flex Your Mussels’ for Seattle’s Expanding Your Horizons (SEYH) conference at Seattle University. The mission of SEYH is to inspire girls to pursue opportunities in STEM fields through exposure to role models and hands on activities. The Seattle conference hosted 46 different workshops (bacteria to fireworks) and had over 400 middle school participants!! At the Flex Your Mussels workshop the girls learned about...
Read MoreHackathon with GEMS
Mackenzie Gavery helps put on a Hackathon with the middle school girls at GEMS. They wrote code for making various patterns of stacked cups. A little buggy, but overall they did awesome! For this activity one girl was the ‘robot’ and went to a different area of the room while the other girls coded. They had 6 different commands and they were given images of patterns of stacked cups. When they were done writing the code, the robot would come over and read the code to build the pattern.. sometimes it took a little debugging to get it right After a few simple patterns they...
Read MoreSteven on the Science Online Altmetrics Panel
circa 2013 scienceonline on livestream.com. Broadcast Live...
Read MoreData and Resource Sharing Plan
It is the philosophy of the group to make data available to the widest potential audience in a timely manner. Data Sharing Routine Activity Research activities will be recorded daily in online lab notebooks. Lab notebooks can be maintained in various platforms including Evernote, Wikispaces, IPython, and GitHub. Noteboooks will be made centrally accessible at genefish.wikispaces.com. Product Publication All published data will be submitted to journals indexed by the major biomedical indexing sites including PubMed and PubMed Central. In instances where a publisher version of a publication...
Read MoreFISH310 for 2nd Graders
This has been reposted from our lab tumblelog A few weeks ago I went to Wilkes Elementary to give a presentation and show the students some marine invertebrates. I used some of the more charismatic examples from FISH310 and the kids were extremely knowledgable and full of questions. I easily had more student interaction in that one hour than 10 weeks in my college course! Below is a post from Mrs. Spickard’s blog on my visit. Marine Science with Mr. Roberts Posted by Laurie Spickard at 5/21/2013 Mr. Roberts came to share his marine science expertise with us! We thank you for taking...
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