The essence of Synapse lies in its meaning, and what we aim to accomplish has effects in multiple senses. With each program, hundreds of young lives are changed. They have real-world, hands-on experiences in fields they once never thought possible. The effect on each child is long-lasting, even just from a six-week after-school program.
Educating youth in the language of science rears its benefits to the scientific community as a whole. Kids think in a unique way that adults cannot relate to. With age, we lose creativity, unlimited ideas, and the classifying characteristics of childhood. Scientists can draw back from the creativity fountains within kids and utilize their voices to progress science forward in the coming ages. This not only can catalyze scientific discoveries, solving the world's most pressing issues, from global warming to cancer. If scientists keep thinking in the same way, they will keep encountering the same roadblocks. Synapse has found the key to some of these problems in youth.
