Get Involved

Get involved - ways to participate

Contribute articles to the NeuroBeacon blog and contribute to science education
Create and publish your brain-based educational videos on our website lecture series and YouTube channel
Join groups to write a scientific review article on Cognitive Science and/or Neuroscience to publish in a high school journal
- Join to be an author
- Join as group leader to be a mentor / lead author and become a NeuroBeacon Science Communication Mentor
Be a leader in our nonprofit
- Start a NeuroBeacon chapter at your school
- Join our Education Outreach Program and volunteer to teach at your local schools using our educational brain-based resources

Start a Cognitive Science / Neuroscience Club at your own U.S. high school using our resources
Enter your member email in the form to the right to access the application form, and we will send you our club resources
Club resources we provide include:
- A compilation of in-depth neuroscience presentations
- Trivia-like brain-based games that can be used for school neuroscience engagement and practice for local and state Brain Bee competitions
- Emails of students who have signed up to be NeuroBeacon Science Communication Mentors so that your club can establish a mentorship program for students interested in writing brain-based review articles

Enter your membership email to access the full application

email above must be the same as your member sign-in email

Choose a topic of interest in the broad area of Cognitive Science and/or Neuroscience
Submit a general idea for a blog in the form at the right
We'll email you a set of guidelines and accept your blog idea potentially with some suggestions

Build your technical writing skills and provide free educational resources on brain-based topics!

We will accept your article based on the criteria we send to you via email upon completing this form.

Choose a topic of interest in the very broad area of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, or Medical Anthropology
Submit a general idea for a video in the form at the right
We'll email you a set of guidelines and accept your video idea potentially with some suggestions
Your video will be posted on our website lecture series AND on our NeuroBeacon YouTube channel

Build skills in science communication, presentation skills, public health outreach, and more!

We will contact you about your idea and provide feedback before you start making the lecture video.

Work in small groups to write a review article for a high school or college research journal. Topics in the Cognitive Science / Neuroscience domain, including topics involving molecular biology
- Be a contributing author in a group
- For juniors, seniors, and college students: become a NeuroBeacon Science Communication Mentor and serve as a group leader mentoring other student authors. After becoming a Science Communication Mentor, you will also have the opportunity to become a National NeuroBeacon Research Mentor for students that establish NeuroBeacon chapters.
- Join our review article interest list and be notified when new review article teams are assembled.

This is a great first step into the world of research!

We will add you to this group and contact you regarding logistical details and responsibilities

Students can volunteer to help educate younger students at other schools using our free educational content
If you are interested please submit your member email in the form at right and we will send you our brain-based course materials

We will contact you when we launch the program

We will contact you via email with a detailed description of the program and our resources upon filling out this form.

Go to this form and use the email you became a NeuroBeacon member with: https://neurobeaconcontentupload.netlify.app/
Then upload your article or educational video. Our leadership team will review it for approval and get back to you promptly!