The 12th annual Brain Fair brought out hundreds of kids to get hand-on experience learning about the most complex organ.
NEW YORK -- For National Brain Awareness Week, Mount Sinai scientists and surgeons are revealing their research to the public and encouraging Harlem kids to join them in their studies at the 12th Annual Brain Fair.The event is part of Mount Sinai's ongoing efforts to diversify the medical field by immersing local students in science.
'There's candy and there's an inflatable brain, and then you're also using like a yarn to make a neuron,' explained CEYE director Kenya Townsend, 'so now you're curious. And so the hope from this is that you go on to actually go home and research more about the brain.'Over the Brain Fair's 12 years of sparking scientific interests, organizers say they have seen a shift.
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