Teen Science Cafe - Kaleidoscope Discovery Center

Computerized Patients - Crises - Normal checkup procedures — See how 🏥 Phelps Health staff 👩‍⚕️ for Real Life in their Simulation Training Lab.
Stop the bleed certificate (pic) and EMS 🚁 Tour optional at end of Cafe!
🗓️ 1 week away! RSVP now! (Attendance limited)

Interested in medicine or human anatomy? Join Teen Science Cafe at 🏥 Phelps Health Simulation and Training lab next week on June 4! We’ll start at 12:45.
🚁 Optional EMS tour and Stop the Bleed certification, 2-2:30pm.
‼️ Register at thekaleidoscope.org/tsc - link in FB Event — ‼️ attendance Min 6, Max15 — so message a friend and get registered!

We are hosted by MO AHEC. The photo shows the Stop the bleed activity.

The simulation lab has computerized adult and child “patients” where training for normal situations can take place, as well as rare IRL crises, so everyone knows what to do when those situations do occur. It’s going to be great!!

Teen Science Cafe - Kaleidoscope Discovery Center , part of the Science Cafe Network

Phelps Health Simulation Lab - Teen Science Cafe 🏥 🚁

Missouri S&T and the Missouri AfterSchool Network are hosting the Midwest STEM Conference this summer, July 28-29. We hope Kaleidoscope Discovery Center Teen Science Cafe will be selected as a presenter to share our rural STEM outreach to Teens story -- with teachers, administrators, STEM service providers, and other non-profit leaders who attend.

Sign up below -- Attendance is Free and meals are provided during the conference. It is a great opportunity to network with other STEM professionals and volunteers from MO, and learn about the resources of the S&T Ku**er Center for STEM, MASN, and other resources and projects in STEM across the state!

Summary - Midwest STEM Conference 2026

Join STEMNext’s Teen Career Chats: Innovators Advancing STEM on
April 29 @ 5:00 pm CDT.

STEM Next is hosting another career chat for teens this month featuring industry leaders from BAE Systems, Illumina, MEFA, and RTX to share how they forged their career paths in STEM.

Register here: https://stemnext.org/event/teen-career-chats-innovators-advancing-stem/

This career chat is an interactive conversation perfect for older youth. We'll help demystify high-tech industries and explore various career pathways in STEM.

Led by our own teen **Flight Crew member Shireen ** from Arizona, youth will have the opportunity to hear from and ask questions of:

🧪Karina Moreno, a biotech engineer and process development engineer at Illumina, an international biotech company.

💻 Lori Seuch, chief information officer at Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA), a quasi-state authority located in Boston, Massachusetts.

✈️ Brittany Wheeler, D. Eng., associate director of manufacturing and Operations at RTX, an aerospace company.

🛩️ Jennifer Lemon, an engineer at BAE Systems, an aerospace company.

This event will be recorded and shared with all registrants, so you are welcome to register and participate as a group live or view it after the event. We also appreciate sharing the opportunity directly with educators, teens and families!

Our Eco-Teen partner at ROCS shared this Monarch butterfly annual cycle. Keep your eye out for EcoTeen events.

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NASA Artemis Career Chat next Wed. Sign up with link in post.

Step inside the world of space exploration this Engineers Week at a live STEM Next Career Chat focused on the careers behind NASA’s Artemis II mission.
Join us on Wednesday, February 25, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET for a special conversation about the people and professions powering the next era of deep space exploration. Set to launch in early March, Artemis II will mark the first crewed flight around the Moon in more than 50 years.
This Career Chat will feature NASA’s George Gorospe, Lockheed Martin Corporation systems engineer Chelsea Partridge, and other professionals working in the fields that make Artemis II and other space missions possible. Young people will hear how they turned their interests into real careers, what it takes to support missions like Artemis II, and the many pathways to a future connected to space.
All young people and the adults who support them are welcome.

Register here for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/Artemiscareerchat

STEMNext is hosting a Teen Career Chat on Science of the Human Body and Health Tech of the Future. -- Sign up below for 2/10 session, 5pm CST. Human Anatomy 🩻and Medical ⚕️was one of our top Topic Results for Teen Science Cafe this semester.

Teen Science Café Network is part of STEMNext.

The Heart of Technology: The Science of YOU Ever wonder how your smartwatch actually knows your heart rate? Or how engineers design tech that can literally save lives? Join STEM Next and Flight Crew member James on February … Continued

Did everyone have an enjoyable kickoff 🏈 to the winter holiday season? Come share your thoughts about how the increased darkness 🌆 of winter 🪾⛄🥶 is affecting you while we learn about 💡LIGHTING DESIGN with an amazing expert and a fun hands on activity! See 👀 you all soon for our 🗓️ December event ➡️Make sure to double check that you are registered so we have plenty of snacks 🍿🥨

Reminder: Teen Science Cafe on Thursday 11/13! DYK: St. Louis Basilica’s recent lighting upgrade was done by team including this week’s speaker? Come hear about Industrial Lighting Design!!

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis - 2024 IALD Award of Merit PROJECT: The Cathedral Basilica of St. LouisLOCATION: St. Louis, MO, United StatesLIGHTING DESIGN: Reed Burkett Lighting DesignPHOTOGRAPHY: (c) Sam Fentress ...

Check out 👀 some of the fun happenings at our last Teen Science Cafe ☕. While learning about physical therapy 🧑‍⚕️ we dissected cookies 🍪, worked with balance, angles 📐, grip strength 💪, and learned about the many things that can be done with a physical therapy degree 🎓.