I just got finished talking about insects with a swarm of high school students, educators and other entomologists, and I’m jacked up!
What an absolutely incredible hour of lightning-round outreach! The students were asking great questions, and more importantly, appeared to be thinking about the answers they received and responding with follow-up questions or comments. I’m guessing that there was about a 7:1 ratio of students to entomologists, and the stream of questions, answers, comments and observations was going so fast I could hardly keep up. I personally answered questions about diversity, fly behaviour, mosquito-vectored diseases, taxonomy, morphology, physiology, how I got interested in entomology and a whole bunch more, and I was typing as fast as my stubby little fingers could go!
What makes #SciStuChat so important in my mind is the way in which students are encouraged to meet, talk and ask questions with real, working scientists. I would have killed to have an opportunity like this when I was growing up, and I’m more than happy to provide an hour of my time to help connect with the next generation of potential scientists and perhaps turn them into future colleagues!
If you’d like to check out (or better yet join in) #SciStuChat, it’s held on the second Thursday of every month throughout the school year with a new main topic each month. Until then, check out what we were talking about tonight, and consider joining in next month!
http://storify.com/BioInFocus/scistuchat-insect-edition
I took part in an awesome Twitter event connecting students with scientists last night. My thoughts on #SciStuChat – http://t.co/U0epigvn
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/Ad7uEKDl via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/Jmb6rsmx via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/WSddE4MI via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/skJKm1bS via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/uhTB9rlu via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/yeREHGwZ via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/KWsV3JSO via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/FkZATBzS via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/skJKm1bS via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/skJKm1bS via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/skJKm1bS via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/skJKm1bS via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/skJKm1bS via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Students, Check out the cool things a scientist said about you after last night's chat. http://t.co/uhTB9rlu via @BioInFocus #scistuchat
Thoughts on #SciStuChat & a Storify of tonight’s event » Biodiversity in Focus Blog http://t.co/FJMOOVSQ
#tayverts http://t.co/SsaXjVDb article about #scistuchat from thursday