Take Your Child to Work Day, a Virtual Hit

Kennedy Graves. “Thank you for this much-needed escape from virtual learning! I am Carmen Graves, NIAID/Vaccine Research Center, Clinical Trials Program. My 10-year-old daughter Kennedy thoroughly enjoyed ‘Slime Time’ and is presently in a virtual scavenger hunt! You guys did an awesome job, especially during these trying times. We truly appreciate everything!”

NIGMS Ambassadors. From Twitter: “The @ArkanSono team is very proud of our STEM Ambassadors who presented two virtual outreach sessions as part of the NIH/NIGMS ‘Take Your Child To Work Day!’ Congrats high school students Julio, Fardeen and Insherah and incoming med student James!”

A shot of the “Are You Moving Fast Enough?” session underway

Dia Gautam, grade 3, attends “Create Your Own Neuron.” “She loved all the six sessions she attended today. Great arrangements even during this unprecedented time.”—parent Dr. Rajeev Gautam, Program Officer, Virology Branch, DMID/NIAID/NIH

Adelaide Soper, grade 3, a week before her 9th birthday, enjoys extracting DNA from strawberries in her kitchen, during one of OD’s activities.—parent Sabrina Springer, NLM technical information specialist

Grand Time. “My three granddaughters Celeste (6th grade), Bitsy (3rd grade) and Esme (K—She wanted to tag along) are shown extracting DNA from strawberries. They also participated intently in a Zoom event, ‘How Concepts of Evolution and Math Can Tame the Next Pandemic.’”—Dr. David Cassatt, NIAID program officer.

Matthew Brown, 2nd grade, made slime at the FAES Science Fair and created his own neuron model. “We had a great time!”—parent Dr. Larissa Brown of NCBI

Yoga Giggles. NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and OITE director Dr. Sharon Milgram enjoy some “Laughter Yoga,” led by instructor Alexa Drubay, during an OD event.

Isaac (6) and Gabriella (3) Taliaferro extract DNA from strawberries—parent Dr. Lanyn Perez Taliaferro, program officer, NIAID/Radiation & Nuclear Medical Countermeasures Program