Attendance at a Meeting or Scientific Lecture
Overview: You may attend a meeting or lecture that will focus on Science at a college, university, museum, research facilities, businesses or hospitals.
Process:
Step 1: Choose a location that hosts meetings or scientific lecture and find a meeting on their schedule that you are interested in attending.
Step 2: Submit a proposal for the meeting or scientific lecture that you plan to attend and receive approval.
Step 3: R.S.V.P. for the meeting, if necessary, record the date in your agenda, show up on time with a notepad and a pen, dress appropriately for the meeting and behave yourself in a mature manner at the meeting.
Step 4: Collect any handouts at the meeting, take notes during the discussion with questions and/or list items you find interesting. Approach the speaker after the meeting to introduce yourself as a high school student and ask him/her a question.
Step 5: Prepare a 2-3 page type-written summary of what you learned (12-point font, double-spaced, third person) OR Prepare a 5-minute oral presentation regarding what you learned at your meeting and schedule a presentation time with the teacher.
Deliverables: Cover page, Approved Proposal, Written report 2-3 pages in report form OR oral presentation – 5 minutes, References page giving a correct APA bibliographic citation.
Fee: $1,850 [Consultant-Based Learning: Dollars Equate to Class Points/Credit]
Other helpful suggestions: You may attend a scientific lecture on anything related to Science; choose a topic that you find to be interesting. Be sure that your meeting is open to the public and request a fee waiver if a fee is associated.
Discuss how you arrived, the atmosphere of the meeting, how the attendees received you and whether or not you would like to attend another lecture that is similar. Regarding the Science, discuss the overall topic, what you learned, how you felt about the vocabulary or level of discussion and the value you found in being around scientists.
Read up some on the topic before you arrive at the lecture so that you are not completely in the dark as you are listening. Feel free to ask a question during the lecture if you feel comfortable and need clarification. Listen carefully to the scientist's story lecture and take general notes about points you find interesting and jot down questions about words or ideas that you do not understand. What advise might you give to someone interested attending a scientific lecture?
If you cannot find a lecture to go watch live in person, you may find a lecture that will be broadcast on television, on the Internet or on the radio (for $1,500, $350 less).
Some possible places to look for lectures are listed as follows:
Process:
Step 1: Choose a location that hosts meetings or scientific lecture and find a meeting on their schedule that you are interested in attending.
Step 2: Submit a proposal for the meeting or scientific lecture that you plan to attend and receive approval.
Step 3: R.S.V.P. for the meeting, if necessary, record the date in your agenda, show up on time with a notepad and a pen, dress appropriately for the meeting and behave yourself in a mature manner at the meeting.
Step 4: Collect any handouts at the meeting, take notes during the discussion with questions and/or list items you find interesting. Approach the speaker after the meeting to introduce yourself as a high school student and ask him/her a question.
Step 5: Prepare a 2-3 page type-written summary of what you learned (12-point font, double-spaced, third person) OR Prepare a 5-minute oral presentation regarding what you learned at your meeting and schedule a presentation time with the teacher.
Deliverables: Cover page, Approved Proposal, Written report 2-3 pages in report form OR oral presentation – 5 minutes, References page giving a correct APA bibliographic citation.
Fee: $1,850 [Consultant-Based Learning: Dollars Equate to Class Points/Credit]
Other helpful suggestions: You may attend a scientific lecture on anything related to Science; choose a topic that you find to be interesting. Be sure that your meeting is open to the public and request a fee waiver if a fee is associated.
Discuss how you arrived, the atmosphere of the meeting, how the attendees received you and whether or not you would like to attend another lecture that is similar. Regarding the Science, discuss the overall topic, what you learned, how you felt about the vocabulary or level of discussion and the value you found in being around scientists.
Read up some on the topic before you arrive at the lecture so that you are not completely in the dark as you are listening. Feel free to ask a question during the lecture if you feel comfortable and need clarification. Listen carefully to the scientist's story lecture and take general notes about points you find interesting and jot down questions about words or ideas that you do not understand. What advise might you give to someone interested attending a scientific lecture?
If you cannot find a lecture to go watch live in person, you may find a lecture that will be broadcast on television, on the Internet or on the radio (for $1,500, $350 less).
Some possible places to look for lectures are listed as follows:
- SDSU (San Diego State University): http://events.sdsu.edu/ (enter search term for topic, locations vary)
- USD (University of San Diego): http://www.sandiego.edu/sci_lectures/
- BALBOA PARK: http://www.balboapark.org/aboutspecial.html
- San Diego BIOTECHNOLOGY Events: http://www.biotech-calendar.com/sdcal/sandiego.html
- UCSD (University of California, San Diego)
- http://greymatters.ucsd.edu/schedule.html (at Balboa Park)
- http://greymatters.ucsd.edu/broadcast_schedule.html (online)
- http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/calendar/SearchResult.asp?Result (locations vary)