When Allie told us that Brain Day at Auckland University was coming up again I couldn't believe it. I had helped her haul in the display for ABI's booth for the last event and I could have sworn that that was only several months ago; not a whole year. Wow. Time is indeed flying.
I haven't shown you the inside scoop on Brain Day before. This year, we all attended a few hours of the show, while Allie was working her booth, and I have some pictures to prove it.
Here we go...
It's in here.
Allie's ABI booth. She's busy answering questions.
She takes a break to show the boys around.
Later, as Brain Day comes to a close, the boys hang with their mom at bit at the booth.
They're still in their X Race shorts and jerseys since we came here directly from the race. Allie of course changed before we arrived into her professional duds. There will be another post with some pictures from that race. It was the first one Jeanne and I had seen. And Dianne was with us for this one. It was a lot of fun.
After we had seen the displays available inside the buidling, we came out here to check out the inflatable brain in the courtyard.
Arram is reading about the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. It is the region of the brain that is responsible for our working memory, planning, inhibition, abstract reasoning, and a few more needful functions.
Jeanne is explaning something and the boys appear intent. Probably their DLPFC's are being stimulated by a combination of Grammy's explanation and the red light. We know that the brain is full of oxygenated red blood cells so the color scheme in here is the proper one. -djf
So fun to see this again. I'd forgotten until now that Allie had told the boys that if they wanted to say something really intelligent to Brain-Day patrons to just mention something like how they are concerned about the development of their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
ReplyDeleteThat giant blow-up brain had diagrams inside where you could actually locate the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex... and Arram's balloon creation was a brain hat!
Lots of fun that day.
Brain day was part of our fun day.
ReplyDeleteYou must have all been so proud of Allie. That blow up brain is way cool. McKenzie
ReplyDeleteWe sure are.
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