The first picture is the MedTeach team: Me, Sarah, Stephanie, and our two teachers at Alamo Elementary School. The second is me showing some 5th graders small intestine. We recently taught our last lesson on the brain. I had the usual anatomy specimens of a rat brain and a human brain; we also had really exciting stations on spinal cord signaling (how does your brain get information from your foot and then tell your foot what to do?), reflexes (with reflex hammers for all the students to practice with), and "drunk goggles" that impair coordination. It was a lot of fun; one of the classes made a really sweet "Thank You" book with pictures and descriptions of their favorite lessons. I'll miss working with the students and teachers, and I wish I could do it next year, but it doesn't work well with the second year schedule.
We also had a MedTeach banquet which was great. Everyone participating in the umbrella organization "Science and Education Partnership" was there. We spent the first bit writing up some feedback for the program and discussing our experiences. Then, they had quite a nice reception with waiters and waitresses carrying around platters of fancy-looking appetizers. That's always a good sign! Dinner was a sit-down three-course affair, quite different than our usual fare. I had an excellent time talking to the other first years who did MedTeach.
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