The Colorado College Elementary School Outreach Program for Neuroscience Education was developed in 1993. The program is designed to introduce local elementary school children to basic neuroscience through interactive demonstrations, activities, and hands-on experience with brain tissue. Run by undergraduate students, our mission is to educate and inspire a passion for science in young people.

To date, Neuroscience students have accomplished the following:

Number of classrooms visited: 2,010

Grades visited: 1st through 6th; and some middle school

Number of elementary school students involved: 25,549

We have also visited several local high schools and talked to thousands of students, and had students from several local schools of all levels visit the Laboratory of Quantitative Neuromorphology.

Children's Comments

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"Touching the brain was gross, exciting, mushy, neat and wonderful." --Kenny, 3rd grade

"If you hadn't come I probably would never of seen an actual brain or even been able to hold one...Thank you very much."--Joel, 5th grade

"I learned that some mammals know more than others. I learned that brains have wrinkles. I learned that brains have serten sells."--Wesley, 2nd Grade

"I liked how you taught us about Alzheimers Disease. My grandma has it real bad and now I understand about it and even told my mom about it too. Thank you very much." --Shawn, 4th grade

"I told my brother and sister all about the brain and they didn't even believe I sawed a real human and munkey brain or even toched one. All of my friends even wished they could of seen the brains and lerned about it like me." --Josh, 4th grade

"At first I thought the brain felt gross but after I learned about it I thought it was really neat. I had alot of questions that you answered and you guys made it easy and fun to learn about the brain."--Jessica, 5th grade