Science Week Guide 2024
Dates: April 1st – April 5th
- Mission and Guidelines
Overall Mission
To highlight scientists and awareness of different scientific discoveries and careers in the SASE community.
Guidelines of Science Week Participation
- Chapters must participate in at least two days, but are highly encouraged to participate in as many days/themes as possible.
- Share your event photos, posters, infographics, or videos on social media to highlight best practices and important knowledge. Use the hashtag #SASEScienceWeek2024 with the corresponding event hashtags below to be featured on our social media pages!
- Day 1: SASEโs First Steps
#SASEFirstSteps2024
๐ Whenโs the last time you touched grass!? ๐พ๐ !?๏ธ
Step into Science Week the right way! Get together as a chapter and compete against SASE
chapters across the country to see who can walk the most steps by the end of the week.Ways to Participate
โ In-Person:
โ As a chapter, get together, go outside, and touch grass!!!
โ Host a walking challenge and keep track of your steps.
โ Alternatively, host a field day or some other physical event with your chapter.
โ Virtual:
โ Take a selfie of your chapter walking, or being active outside and post it on your
Instagram story with #SASEFirstSteps2024 (weโll repost it on @sasescience!).
โ Tally up the number of steps you or your chapter took and submit it on this
Google form: https://forms.gle/XgBdGDCLvvG2M4Nt8 - Day 2: Environmental Awareness Day
#SASEGreenDay2024
๐ฑ We want YOU to be the next Greta Thurnberg!!๏ธ
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Make posters and educate others, or
go above and beyond and also do your part in reducing your environmental waste for a day โป๏ธ๐ฏ
Whatever it is you decide to do, your community is waiting for a leader to remind them of environmental awareness ๐๐.
Ways to Participate
โ Virtual:
โ Post about sustainable initiatives at your school or locally.
โ Pledge to be zero waste for a day!
โ In-Person:
โ Hold an event discussing how STEM careers impact the environment.
โ Create a poster to display and bring awareness to the importance of our
environment.
โ Have a local environmental activist or environmental scientist share their work
and experience
โ Hold a chapter clean-up at a local park - Day 3: Science Behind Cooking
#SASECooks2024
Who said we canโt eat our experiments? But with food science ๐๐๐
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For todayโs theme, share with everyone the different ways science has a role in cooking and food๐.
Food brings people together, so we want you to โจhighlightโจ everyoneโs favorite pastime๐คญ.
Ways to Participate
โ Virtual (Prepare the slides beforehand to post, so you don't have to spent too much time
day-of):
โ Making a post about the science behind how food is prepared (Ex. baked goods,
meats, kimchi, baking, fermentation, frying).
โ Make a post about how the appliances affect the cooking process (Ex. how
stovetop cooks an egg, microwave, oven, etc.) in.โ In-Person:
โ Host an edible science event for SASE members (Ex. layered lemonade, candy
crystals, DIY gummy bears, ice cream in a bag, etc.).
โ Collaborate with another SASE chapter to have a potluck incorporating food
science preparation methods.โ Both: Invite a food scientist to speak about their research to SASE members.
- Day 4: Careers in Science
#SAScientistsE2024
Have a unique and interesting role or career within the science world!?๏ธ
Share it with the community!
We want to see the amazing everyday work you do in advancing our scientific knowledge๐งฌ.
Inspire and empower others in their aspiration to change the world through science!
Ways to Participate
โ *possible SCIENCE career/role examples: Chemist, biologist, research and development
associate, pharmacists, doctors, nurse, immunologist, physicists, etc.*
โ Vlogs/blogs/video/reels/TikTok:
โ Day in the life of ______
โ Interview (WIRED Common Google Questions)
โ Any scientist feature (on social media):
โ Guidelines: Pictures of them, what they accomplished, quotes, etc.
โ Science Event:
โ Workshop or Panel - Person/group from industry/grad research - Day 5: Movie Night
#SASEWatchParty2024
Grab some popcorn๐ฟand a seat because itโs time for Movie Night!
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Dive into the world of sci-fi or explore the stories in documentaries...
weโre dying to see how you REACT!
Itโs time to put your science knowledge and ๐ Rotten Tomatoes๐ skills to the test.
Ways to Participate
โ Virtual: Host a movie night on Discord or create a post explaining the science behind a
movie of choice.
โ In-Person: Host an in-person movie night and/or lead a discussion with the members on
the role of science in the movie.
โ Movie suggestions:
โ Oppenheimer
โ Mission: Impossible โ Dead Reckoning Part One
โ 2001: A Space Odyssey
โ The Theory of Everything
โ The Martian
โ Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
โ Hidden Figures
โ Wall-E
โ Chernobyl (an episode of)
โ Back to the Future
โ Interstellar