Items Tagged ‘Chris Pierret’
May 15, 2014
Helping students learn science from the InSciEd Out
If K-12 students throughout the southern half of Minnesota do not grow up to be scientists, it will be through no fault of Mayo Clinic’s Chris Pierret, Ph.D. That’s because in addition to the great work he’s doing with young Austin McCoy (a story we shared last week), Dr. Pierret and others at Mayo Clinic […]
Tags: Chris Pierret, Education
May 6, 2014
Taking on the world’s challenges, at age 14
We don’t know what you were doing at age 14, but if you’re like us, you probably weren’t trying to solve the world’s disease-detection problems. But then, we’re not Austin McCoy, a Rochester, Minn., middle school student who’s making big waves with an impressive device he’s been developing alongside a Mayo Clinic scientist. It all […]
Tags: Austin McCoy, Chris Pierret, DNA