Graduate students in the Institute of Child Development (ICD) are educating young people about brain development and cognition through Growing Brains, a developmental neuroscience outreach program that aims to inspire children and adolescents to value science and to give them a sense of agency in their own development.

Through the program, which was started in 2017 by ICD PhD students Shreya Lakhan-Pal and Keira Leneman, volunteer developmental psychology graduate students visit learning communities in the Twin Cities metropolitan area to give 60-minute lessons about the developing brain. The curriculum covers concepts like brain structure and function, brain development across time, and how experiences can shape the brain’s developmental trajectory. 

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