| Summary: | IMPACT. 1: Approximately 400 students participated in the Breakfast of Science Champions events held in February. They visited 13 different labs across OSU. -- 2. Activities included flying flight simulators at the OSU Airport, using liquid nitrogen-frozen bananas as hammers at the Center for Emergent Materials, and dissecting cow eyes at the College of Optometry. -- 3. The first Breakfast of Science Champions event was held in 1998. STEM Initiatives has run the event since 2011 and has seen consistently increasing interest in involvement. OSU PARTNERS: College of Arts and Sciences, STEM Initiatives; Biological Sciences Greenhouse Byrd Polar Research Center; Center for Applied Plant Sciences; Center for Aviation Studies; Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging; Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics; Center for Emergent Materials College of Nursing; College of Optometry; Department of Astronomy Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering Department of Physics; Department of Food Science and Technology; Insect Molecular Genetics; Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center; Neuroscience; Ohio 4-H Center/EcoBot Challenge; Ohio State Planetarium Undergraduate Research Lab in Behavioral Ecology; Women in Engineering Program COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Columbus City Schools; The Metro School PRIMARY CONTACT: Tracy Burdett (burdett.16@osu.edu) Have you ever wanted to see how the brain works, or how to run a super-conductor train? At STEM Initiatives' Breakfast of Science Champions, middle school students learn these things and more. Students come to OSU for a morning of hands-on exposure to science, technology, engineering, and math problems. They learn about the work conducted by various labs and then participate in activities and experiments reflecting the lab's work.
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