Brain Awareness Week
Plan Your Outreach
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.
Testimonials
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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
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"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
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"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