Engaging high-school students in scientific conferences

Dorrit Inbar; Yonatan M Kupchik; Danny Ben-Zvi; Yossi Yovel; Irit Sadeh

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.03.007

Engaging high-school students in scientific conferences

Trends Ecol Evol. 2024 Jun;39(6):507-509. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.03.007. Epub 2024 May 21.

Authors

Dorrit Inbar¹, Yonatan M Kupchik², Danny Ben-Zvi³, Yossi Yovel⁴, Irit Sadeh⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel; IMRIC Center for Addiction Research (ICARe), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel; IMRIC Center for Addiction Research (ICARe), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel.
³ IMRIC Center for Addiction Research (ICARe), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel; Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), The Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel.
⁴ School of Zoology, Faculty of Life Science, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
⁵ Science and Mathematics Division, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, 9510402, Israel. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 38777635
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.03.007

Abstract

Scientific meetings rarely involve the local community and have minimal educational and scientific impacts on it. Here, we report the successful engagement of high-school students in scientific conferences. To promote science education and trust in science, we call upon conference attendees and organizers to involve high-school students in their meetings.

Keywords: education; high-school students; scientific conference.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Congresses as Topic*
Humans
Schools
Science* / education
Students* / psychology