Workshops in Cogitania! Learn about Biology or Chemistry
Item Number: 587
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $150
Online Close: Apr 30, 2015 10:00 PM EDT
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Description
Winning bidder will receive 2 biology or chemistry sessions of 90 minutes hands on science exploration! for younger ages (1-4th grade).
About Cogitania: A place for deep thinkers!
Sessions at Cogitania are organized into short sequences, each of which explores a different subject. Learning about the subject is not the primary goal. Rather, different subjects require different types of thinking. We distill in experience the acts of thinking essential to each field, teasing out their varieties and depths, in order to nurture the awareness in participants of the manifold abilities of their minds; to build the intuition that can apply thinking with agility to illuminate the challenges and opportunities that life presents.
We engage in a reflective knowledge exchange with a speaker that specializes in the workshop's topic. Not only will you share information and knowledge but you will learn how to reason in the field, take risks, ask questions, analyze, dive deeper and build critical thinking by correcting yourself if you find yourself heading in the wrong path. We will teach you “what”, but more importantly “how” and “why” you might want to know. I believe this might be the most efficient path to understand the nature and essence of a given knowledge.
Workshop groups meet at weekends for an hour and a half session. The groups are small, never more than 8 Cogitanians. The cost of an individual session is 50-60$, depending on the theme and speaker . If you commit to all 4 sessions, a discount will be given. Please contact me with any questions and concerns about tuition. We might be offering scholarships down the road!
About Cogitania's Speakers:
Peruta, Cogitania's resident Evolutionary Biologist Science is one of my first loves. My father being a mathematics professor installed in me the value of education and sharing knowledge with others from an early age. Being in gifted education, I have been engaging in biology research since I was in high school. I graduated with honors from Williams College with a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry as well as a concentration in biochemistry. While there, I wrote my thesis in developmental biology on the key differentiation genes of Helobdella robusta. I then worked in the medical school at Yale University as a science researcher in the infectious disease department. My research there focused on a particular mode of posttranscriptional gene regulation, RNA interference. Currently, I am pursuing a degree in biology from Harvard University. During my academic career, I have taken on many teaching roles. I have over six years of tutoring/teaching experience, both as a teaching assistant at Williams College and as a private tutor in biology and chemistry for middle school, high school, and college students.
Joshua Schroeder graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude with a degree in Astrophysical Sciences in 2003. He received a M.S. in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2005 and worked as an Instructor of Physical Science at Harold Washington College from 2005 to 2007.
Since then, he has been a PhD candidate in Astronomy at Columbia University with the effected defense date of May 2014. He currently works as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge. He lives in Boston.
Louis Bodin discovered a passion for both rocks and Earth Science as a grade-school student, clambering after his parents across the rocky slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Enamored with the study of physics, climate, chemistry, and more, he gravitated to Geology at Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences. Louis graduated in 2011, receiving the Andrew Wharton prize in Geology.
Louis' research took him to Australia, where he studied meteorite impact ejecta preserved in ancient strata of the western outback. Since graduating, Louis has explored the geology of Central America and Asia. He watched lava bubble from volcanoes in Nicaragua and trekked, biked, and climbed through the high Himalaya of Ladakh.
More recently, Louis has worked as a science writer, ranger, and educator for the National Park Service. This fall, he moved to Boston from Oregon Caves National Monument where he guided the public through a mile-long cave and wrote about the Geologic history of the Western U.S.
A lifelong musician, Louis also completed a degree in Jazz Trumpet from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He has been studying, teaching, and performing improvised music since the age of 15.
Louis is motivated by his joy for understanding and communicating the processes that shape the world around us. He aspires to encourage discussion and share his passion for both science and music at Cogitania.
For more information, go to www.cogitania.com
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