Hi all, Adel speaking
The 27thof October, the EEG Team had the chance to present its project at the 51th MACUB Conference in Queensborough Community College along with around 140 projects from New York, New Jersey and Maryland States.
I was very excited as it was my first time presenting at a conference out of Bergen, and super excited to show our work to a different else.
After an inspiring talk on the arts and neurons of the PhD artist Gregory Dunn, the time to present our poster to the judges followed right away. Students, teachers and amateurs from other colleges and universities were listening to what the EEG Team had been doing until that moment. Neurofeedback was changing someone’s life. Sound at a very slow frequency, was rearranging the brain neural network for a calm and relaxed state.
However, what the interlocutors could not see in the poster was the focused work of a team who experienced different challenges. One of which has been preparing the paper works to have access to the equipment, which had slowed the research’s progress tremendously.
Regardless that, we still made it to present to the Stem C^2 at Bergen in April, the STEM Summit in August still in the house and eventually at the MACUB Conference where we got assigned first place for poster presentation in the Community College category.
I felt humbled when I was handed the Certificate of Achievement at the award ceremony.
In actuality, that certificate is crowing the dedicated work of Dr. Dilauro, the effort of the team for progress and the committed participation of the veterans to the study.
Big thank you to the veterans for giving their time to the STEM Union, sharing their stories and inspiring us to give our best. Huge appreciation hug to all the members who decided to lose themselves in the study of the brain scans and later analyze the indecipherable data for the sake of the learning process: I was honored to represent you all to that conference. Most importantly, a great aknowledgement goes to the work of our mentor Dr. Dilauro for putting our project first, her patience in every explanation and her will to help out of the ordinary.
The MACUB Conference symbolizes the beginning of journey.
P.S. A message to future members: believe in the transformative impact of the project.
