Students visit UNC-Chapel Hill laboratories!

February 24th, 2020 – 16 middle and high school students visited the UNC campus to participate in Shadow A Scientist!

The visiting students shadowed two scientists throughout the day and heard talks from Sarah Brotman, in the Department of Genetics, and Aliyah Griffith, in the Marine Science Program, during lunch!

We are grateful to our dedicated science ambassadors who hosted students in their labs as well as presented during lunch!

Here are some fast stats and quotes from our student survey that we wanted to share with you:

• • • Every student said that after both shadowing experiences, they were all “more interested” in learning about science!
    • My favorite part of the visit is: “That I could and was able to see exactly what a field for me in the future would look like”.
    • My favorite part of the visit is: “Learning about equipment, different problems the scientists were working on, learning about cutting-edge science and cool discoveries”

Thank you so much to our ambassadors for hosting our visiting students and eating lunch with them! We are so pleased by everyone’s responses – which shows there’s always room to create rewarding science outreach opportunities!