The Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences has been involved in community outreach programs since early in the 1990's - designated the "Decade of the Brain." It all began when a faculty member and a few graduate students starting going out to local schools with a cart full of brain-science stuff like sheep's brains that the students could touch, a human brain in a jar that they could study, and other materials to experiment with.
Today MINS is active in a much broader range of community outreach and partnership activities in the Philadelphia area, organized by the Graduate-Led Initiatives and Activities (GLIA) Committee of the Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG).