By JORDIN RUTHSTEIN
neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com
CALEB Science Club will meet at 11 a.m. Feb. 6, at the School of Medicine’s Clinical Simulations Center.
Dena Higbee, director of the center, will be facilitating the meeting. There will be different stations to practice things such as incubation and the skills required for laparoscopic surgery. Mannequins will simulate actual patients, and for those who show up at 10 a.m., there will be a lesson on how to take a patient history. Students will have the chance to pair up and practice being a doctor and patient.
There will also be a lunch held in a dormitory at 12:30 p.m.
The club, led by Ellis A. Ingram of MU, meets the first Saturday of each month. It is a free program open to children in fifth-grade through college. You may sign up online or simply show up to a meeting.
Students from West Junior High and West Boulevard Elementary are welcome to attend.
As noted on CALEB’s Web site, “although there is a very important emphasis on the middle-school age, students at higher levels of education are actively involved. The older students help to nurture the younger ones, providing extremely valuable input while gaining invaluable mentoring experience themselves.”
Ingram said, “they (the science clubs) mixes ages (of students) so they have role models in older students. It’s an atmosphere where they are hoping contacts will be made. Some mentoring relationships may be made.”
Ingram described the approach for the students as “aggressive learners.”
For more information on the CALEB Science Club, or to become a member or mentor, visit its Web site. Directions to this month’s location are also available here.
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