Family,
AYA Educational Institute needs your help
with a school-community STEM project that
we call Melanin Mastery! We are forming local
MM Cohorts (MMCs) around the country. It
will be challeging. It will be a 3 month journey
backwards and forward into sometimes
uncharted territory and still you may choose to
join us.
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If you are a parent, grand parent, guardian
of a middle or high school Afrikan-
American student, we need you.
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If you are an Afrikan or Afrikan American
interested in learning and sharing about
melanin, we need you.
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Lastly, if you are a science teacher or
science enthusiast interested in learning
and sharing about melanin, then we need
you.
MMC Details:
Each cohort will consist of each of middle or
high school students, parents, guardians,
community persons, teachers, or science
enthusiats. Each cohort will conduct itself
according to AYA’s WHB’s tool set and
guidelines. Your mission, should you decide to
accept it will be:
1. Join or help form a local 6-12 person cohort
who will attend 2 AYA online classes per
month for a total of 6 classes and who will
meet locally with your cohort once per week.
Each cohort will be assigned an AYA support
person. Each cohort will be given access to
AYA online classroom space to facilitate
research, and cohort communication.
2. Meet weekly to research, discuss and share
with each other your discoveries about the
biology and khemestry of melanin. This
research will be based on the cohorts approved
or assigned areas of melanin study.
There are many social media claims about
melanin. Some sound too good to be true. Are
they? Each cohort also research approved
assigned or chosen popular social media
claims about melanin to support or disprove
the claims with evidence - biological and
khemical evidence. MMC’s will debate,
discuss, teach each other. Everyone in the
cohort should know what everyone knows
regardless of age barriers and - even if there is
disagreement.
3. Prepare for your cohort's group and
individual community presentations in
December 2019.
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Panel: Before an audience of 50 to 100
people in your local area, MMC members
will present what you have learned about
the biology and khemistry of melanin and
yourselves. This cohort will also field
questions from the audience.
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Individual: The second presentation will
feature individual MMC members
presenting what they have learned to their
peers.
Interested? Questions? Ready?
Attend our Melanin Mastery Cohort Online Organizing Meeting.
Sunday, August 11th @ 6pm Eastern
WEB: HERE
PHONE: 669 900 6833 , then ID: 4042012356