Memorable Moments: 

Nia: [00:04:32] We tell students about a neurodegenerative disease, and this year we focus on Alzheimer's disease, which is a really terrible and prevalent disease that more and more students are coming in contact with over the course of their life. And then we challenge them to do research on their own neurodegenerative disease and really identify opportunities where invention could happen. 

Alex: [00:08:30] So we use Labster in Biotech in Action and we'll tell the students this is kind of like a video game meets science and it's going to be really cool. And it's always exciting to watch the students say they love Labster, and it's a great way for us to show them, you know what science looks like. 

Stephanie: [00:09:09] What the students were telling us was how they made such great friendships with people that they'd never known before, that didn't live in their backyard. And they'd passed information to stay in touch just like you would at a regular face-to-face camp. And this just stood in stark contrast to what I was reading in a lot of people's experiences trying to teach online. 

Nia: [00:14:19] We have actual professionals who are really, really passionate about their job and what it is that they are doing every day in the lab, and they don't really dumb down their language for the students. We tell the students that it's OK for them to be confused and to not know what's going on, but to really ask questions, be engaged and be participatory as best as they're able so that then they get the most out of the program. 

Alex: [00:16:22] Our end goal is that places like Biogen have this diversity of thinking, have this diversity of employees, and it starts with the students, right? It starts with the people that are interested in science. Those are the people that are going to become scientists. 
Alex: [00:17:15] I think that's always my biggest goal when I go into teaching, if they come out thinking, ‘I can do something in science, that is completely feasible for me in my career and my future’, then I think we've had a successful program. 

Stephanie: [00:18:34] We had one young man who came to the first summer where we had the Parkinson's theme and his father actually was struggling with Parkinson's, so he had an idea for a glove. And he presented that at the culminating event in the program. And then he kept coming back to us for coaching. And he ended up entering the Massachusetts Invention Convention, and he won at that level and went on to compete in the national competition at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, with his invention. 

Episode 20 Transcript: 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XxlMHFcG44Dl8XMlU1j-nHNOutJhFohq?usp=sharing

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