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May 15, Sunday — Seventh- to 10th-graders and their parents from around Northern California will spend a day at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis learning about the brain, with talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities that will include dissecting sheep brains. Organized by the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Graduate Group in Neuroscience, the event will give students and their parents the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge science and technology from experts in the field. From 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., participants will engage in hands-on activities of visual and perceptual illusions; from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., they will take part in sheep brain dissections and measuring brainwaves. Hands-on activities will take place in the Sciences Laboratory Building, Hutchison Drive, on the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis campus, and lectures will take place in the adjacent Sciences Lecture Hall. The participants are taking part in Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth.