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  • Though She Be But Little, She Can Hack
    Education
    Though She Be But Little, She Can Hack
    • February 11, 2020
    • by Caitlin Clayton
    What did you do with your weekends when you were 10 years old? We bet it wasn’t participate in a women-driven hackathon where you developed your own functioning neural robot! (We bet you wish you did, though.) Arushi Nath, age 10, recently participated in Elle Hacks 2020, an all-women hackathon hosted by York University […]
  • Student Project: Neurotransmitter Effectivity Part II
    Outreach
    Student Project: Neurotransmitter Effectivity Part II
    • November 20, 2019
    • by Caitlin Clayton
    Continuing my Research Hi Everyone! My name is Pranav Senthilkumar and I’m a rising senior at Mission San Jose High School in California. I have previously shared my work devising a neuroprosthetic device with the help of Dr. Marzullo, and now with his excellent guidance, I am starting another major neuroscience project.
  • Education
    8th Grade Students teach and present Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering to the STEM-ED Community!
    • September 5, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    Many educators we work with travel to conferences and trainings around their home states and countries, and a few of them even take students! Amy Farkas, from Riverview Michigan, (Read more about her class here) took her 8th graders this past year to a handful of conferences to bring what they’ve learned to the real […]
  • Education
    8th Grade Classroom Showcase: Students Develop Neuroprosthetics Designed to Assist Senior Citizens, Win State-Wide Awards
    • September 4, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    Last school year we worked with teachers across the country to help bring real, meaningful neuroscience lessons into their classrooms. From 5th grade to university, educators and students loved learning about how the brain works, how we study the brain, and how we engineer devices that can be controlled by the brain! One educator, in particular, […]
  • Alma Schools High School Students Present Research on the Reaction Times of Distracted Drivers
    Education
    Alma Schools High School Students Present Research on the Reaction Times of Distracted Drivers
    • July 2, 2019
    • by Will Wharton
    This year, we were excited to release two new kits in concert with our Muscle SpikerBox Pro, kits that are designed to help capture very precise data about reflexes (The Reflex Hammer) and reactions (The Reaction Timer). It didn’t take long for students to start getting their hands on these tools, and we are excited […]
  • Fly a drone with your brain and eyes!
    Education
    Fly a drone with your brain and eyes!
    • May 3, 2019
    • by Caitlin Clayton
    This University of Michigan student team developed a way to control a drone with a new kind of controller… We work with students of all ages — from outreach to early elementary, to hands-on demonstrations, labs, and even research with students from fifth grade to… well, grad school and beyond! We wanted to share this novel and […]
  • Student Project: Neuroprosthetic Effectivity
    Education
    Student Project: Neuroprosthetic Effectivity
    • January 7, 2019
    • by Caitlin Clayton
    Hello everyone. My name is Pranav Senthilkumar and I am a junior at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA (SFO Bay Area) For my project at the Alameda County Science fair last year, I designed a neuroprosthetic device using the original SpikerBox and the Human Neuroprosthetic kit. What is a Neuroprosthetic, and how does […]
  • Education
    Ramiz Kara's experiment: The vitality of the breath, the brain on meditation
    • November 3, 2016
    • by Greg
    Ramiz Kara is a freshmen at Emory University as a Pre-Med track, and he had some questions. He wanted to know the effects of meditation on brain waves and abstract problem solving, so he decided to make his own experiment to measure this, using our EEG device, the Heart and Brain SpikerShield. Although he didn’t find conclusive […]
  • Middle School students awarded for their Neuroscience experiments using the SpikerBox
    Education
    Middle School students awarded for their Neuroscience experiments using the SpikerBox
    • May 24, 2016
    • by Greg
    Two students from Stone Magnet Middle School in Florida, with the guidance of their teacher, Richard Regan, decided to make their science projects in neuroscience. We feel we’ve accomplished our core mission by just being able to write this statement:  that today it is an option for students in middle school to make neuroscience experiments […]

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