A group of 6-8 high schoolers will gather to watch lectures on Virology by Prof. Vincent Racaniello from Columbia University. The students will have an opportunity to learn fundamental topics in Biology and get familiarized with the new paradigm of virtual learning. The facilitator for this class has a masters degree in the Physiology of the Cell, and has experience of experimental work in various branches of Biology. She will introduce the students to the fundamentals of self learning and help them organize their work. Due to the experimental nature of the class it will be considered an internship. Participants will be able to receive recommendation letters based on their contributions to the class. The class will meet in the Wells Fargo building on Shattuck Ave, a 5 minute walk from Berkeley High School. The event is free and is made possible through contributions of our donors and volunteers.

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We will come together for 1 hour (or as much as we need) to drink tea and explore our own personal landscape through relating to one another. We will play with an experimental structure, meant to reduce the amount of non-chosen, automatic communication strategies we all use when we don’t know how to connect. We will do the work in pairs or triplets. Each pair group will be developing its own algorithm of connection, to maximize the communicational potential of an interaction. There will be an opportunity to choose your own way of being — ask each other questions, sit together in silence, learn an origami piece, compose a poem, dance or pass. We will learn to be respectful of our own boundaries, pay attention to our breath and posture, be curious, get silly or clever depending on circumstances, get silly always, etc. etc. This is an experiment, so come and explore on your own!