Brain Awareness Week
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Plan a Brain Awareness Week Event

Are you interested in planning a Brain Awareness Week event, but unsure how to get started? This section provides all the resources and tools you’ll need! Our Planning Public Programs page offers tips and advice for organizing an event, and our Event Ideas pages provide an array of activity suggestions for kids, adults, and online/virtual celebrations.

If you need help promoting your event, visit our Outreach Tools for tips to build your audience, downloadable logos and graphics to use in publicizing your events, and a Social Media Toolkit with sample posts and images.

Event Ideas

Educational and mutual learning activities for different age groups and venue formats.

Exciting Activities for Kids

Get kids excited about brain science with these activity suggestions.

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Engaging Activities for Adults

Find activities that are ideal for reaching adult audiences.

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Virtual Events

Check out our ideas for planning virtual events.

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Outreach Tools

Tips and tools to support your outreach.

Build Your Audience

Tips to reach and grow your target audience.

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Social Media Toolkit

Graphics and sample posts to promote Brain Awareness Week. *Check back soon for 2025 material*

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Participation Certificate

Customizable certificate for volunteers and attendees of your Brain Awareness Week event.

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"Brain Awareness Week has facilitated our understanding of the intricacies of the brain … The impact can't be quantified, but many communities’ mental health has improved drastically since its inception. Also, many young folks have expressed interest in pursuing careers in neuroscience."

Chinna Orish, MBBS, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
"Brain Awareness Week is inspiring for students who are learning about the beauty and intricacy of science. My favorite part about it is when students realize that science is fun and that they, too, can be scientists!"

Andrew Gall, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology, Hope College
"We have organized Brain Awareness Week in Eskişehir-Turkey since 1999 … The feedback we receive at the end of each event motivates us. It is a great feeling to make new plans for Brain Awareness Week each year and to meet with different children and young people who have the same excitement about the brain!"

Ferhan Esen, Ph.D.

Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Eskisehir Osmangazi University