
2018 Festival Photos
Highlights from 2018

Clinical Center - Under Your Skin

NLM volunteers relaxing with Toxie the Cat, the mascot of their popular (and lively) Toxic Toss! game

At this NIMH exhibit, Julie Frost Bellgowan helps children experience how their brain and spinal cord control their bodies’ movements and muscle contractions

Stephen Jett

The NIH Ring

Helen Maunsel hangs out with Kirby, teaching visitors about how playing your music too loud can damage your hearing

Two young men type their names using protein structures that resemble letters of the alphabet, while NIGMS volunteer Alisa Machalek (far right) talks about the activity with a young woman

Anthony Gresko setting up a microscope for the Germ Stops Here activity

Qiaoyun Zheng

Career Pavilion

NCI volunteer (Roshan Shrestha) teaches students about cell division and Mitosis with NCI’s “Modeling Mitosis” activity

Clinical Center - Under Your Skin

Career Pavilion

NEI - More than Meets the Eye

Some visitors to the NIGMS booth type their names using a protein structure resembling letters of the alphabet

Participants learn about how sight and smell, in addition to taste, affect flavor in foods (NIDCD volunteer Laura Manella on left)

NCI volunteers hold up “cell countdown” playing cards, showing different stages of mitosis (left to right: Ulrike Boehm and Akriti Trehan)

Children learning about the different germs they saw in the Germ Stops Here mock lab

NEI - More than Meets the Eye

NIMH volunteer Caroline Swetlitz shows a young girl how focusing on a specific task can limit our ability to see other things in our surroundings

Young student learns from NINDS’ Dr. Angel de la Cruz Landrau at the Brain Lobe-oratorium®

A girl visiting the NIGMS booth views protein structures in 3-D, while boys type in (and will receive a printout) of their names using protein structures that resemble letters of the alphabet


Volunteers

AAAS Fellow Volunteers teach students about Atomic Force Microscopes and gaining information through the sense of touch (left to right: Eric Johnson Chavarria, Christopher Barnhart, Jill Beaver, Rebecca Lampley)

Students smashing up strawberries as they prepare for DNA extraction

Participants spin the Noisy Planet wheel to learn how to protect their hearing from common loud noises (NIDCD volunteer, Victoria Idowu on left)

Clinical Center - Under Your Skin

Career Pavilion

NEI - More than Meets the Eye

Young biomedical engineers in training explore cutting-edge surgical technologies in the 3D operating room of the future

A group of children visiting the NIGMS booth wear virtual reality headsets to view protein structures in 3-D

NIMH volunteers Shauna Whisenton and Gowri Somasekhar show kids how the brain can be tricked through optical illusions

Rockstars of Science

Volunteers at the Sensation Station (left to right: Susan Dambrauskas, Phalla Messina, and Victoria Idowu) teach visitors what happens to sensory hair cells in the inner ear when they are damaged by noise

Career Pavilion

Students learn about Atomic Force Microscopy at the AAAS Fellows booth by manipulating a working model (Christopher Barnhart)

Having identified all the toxic substances correctly and successfully tossed all bean bags into the bucket, this young guest gets to choose a special pencil

All hands on deck! NCI volunteers talk to students and parents about mitosis and cancer at the NCI table (left to right: Poonam Aggarwal, Claire McCarthy, Josh Turek-Herman)

Students learn about actin proteins and build a 3D model at the AAAS Fellows booth at the 2018 USASEF (Stephen Jett)

Laura Cole, Phalla Messina, and Laura Manella (left to right) pose with Kirby, the friendly mannequin that teaches people how loud music devices can really be

Career Pavilion

NEI - More than Meets the Eye

Dr. Carl Wonders of NINDS showing children the lobes of the brain

Six young women involved in the Miss Africa USA Pageant visit the NIGMS activity booth to “cell-e-brate science”

Student admiring large strands of extracted strawberry DNA

Career Pavilion

Siblings team up to explore the 3D iPad Surgery of the Future operating room

Young family teams up to rack up the point total on the iPad “Want to be a Bioengineer?” Video Game Challenge

Mom watches her daughter as she explores cutting edge biomedical technologies in the 3D Surgery of the Future operating room

Using the Noisy Planet Q/A spinning wheel, Nora Welsh teaches a visitor about healthy hearing habits for common noises

NCI volunteer (Rachel Evans) chats with a young scientist-to-be about a mitosis and shows her a video of a cell dividing in real life!

Anita Harrewijn from the NIMH intramural research program shows children a model of the brain and describes the different brain regions

Career Pavilion

Tracey Brown and Evan Rabinowitsch dressing up future scientists in personal protective equipment (PPE) so that they can enter the mock lab

Children visiting the NIGMS booth wear virtual reality headsets to view protein structures in 3-D

The pressure mounts as these young guests at the NLM booth pool their knowledge to identify toxic substances. (BTW, they all did great!)

Career Pavilion

Clinical Center - Under Your Skin

NINDS scientists Anastasia Robbins and Angel de la Cruz Landrau in action at the Brain Lobe-oratorium®

Visitors to the NIGMS booth could print out their names using protein structures that resemble letters of the alphabet

Extracted strawberry DNA on the stirrer by students

Roger Miller teaches a visitor about how her vision and sense of touch work with her sense of balance to keep her upright

Cool Spot Carnival
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