By London YPAG,
Engaging with young people
If not, I will tell you about it, as I was a volunteer!
At the entrance, there were some people asking for feedback on how the Family Fun Day was for the people who had attended. Inside there were many stalls and one was giving out activity sheets. On them were answer boxes and pictures, and some scientists had the pictures on their backs – you wrote the name of the picture down and learnt about the work of that scientist.
After that, I had to go to the stall that I was manning, which was the Young Persons Advisory Group in Research (YPAG) stall and they were running fun ‘Chocolate Clinical Trials’.
In the trials you had to pick a raffle ticket which either said 1 or 2, and one of them was dairy free and the other was dairy. The ’patients’, had to guess what type of chocolate it was and learn about the clinical trials process
Afterwards, I got interviewed for T.V. all about YPAG.
Overall, the open day was excellent!
Alexis Ifidon, YPAG member.
On Saturday, March 2, 2019, we had our very first Eye- YPAG group. It was so much fun! We did all sorts of activities, put together by Artist Sofie Layton, who was helping Jacqueline Miller with her C-i-2-i project. We embossed aluminium paper with pictures of eyes. Some of us made pictures looking at eyes, […]
In this video from the inaugural Generation R meeting in 2013, YPAG members lead a discussion of why medical research is important.
The Centre of the Cell produced this lesson plan for age 15-18 students. You can find this lesson plan by clicking here
