<strong>Mini-Internship: Professional Storytelling: Talk about Science and Yourself?</strong>

<strong>December 2nd, 2016; 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Roanoke</strong>
<p class="page-heading">The BEST program mini-internships are designed to expose trainees to “a day on the job” for a variety of career paths, through hands-on exercises, site visits, and/or case discussions with biomedical professionals.</p>
Got Science? Then you need to sell it: not just to your friends and family, who want to understand what you do because they care about you, but also to strangers who think about and write about science. This mini-internship will demonstrate how to use everyday tools to get the right kind of attention from the media, how to lead them to write the kind of stories you want them to write, and how to build an online following for your subset of science.

<p class="page-heading">To sign up for the mini-internship, please click <a title="here" href="http://info.vtc.vt.edu/best/dr-gifford-mini-internship-sign-up-form/">here</a>.</p>


<hr />

<strong>Dr. Sheyna Gifford, M.D., M.Sc., M.A.</strong>

<strong>Scientist-in-Residence, <em>St. Louis Science Center</em></strong>

<strong><img class=" size-medium wp-image-967 alignright" src="http://info.vtc.vt.edu/best/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ann-Harvey-Tanner-headshot-200x300.jpg" alt="Ann Harvey Tanner headshot" width="200" height="300" /></strong>

Ann Harvey Tanner joined the Museum of Science and Industry in April 2014. As a Manager of Guest Experiences, Ann works as part of the Center for the Advancement of Science Education to bring world class live science experiences to museum guests. In her role as a manager, she is responsible for hiring, training, and developing the staff of Facilitators that deliver science programs throughout the museum. She also works on interdivisional teams to develop new exhibits to inspire and motivate children to achieve their full potential in STEM fields.  Ann completed a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University and a PhD in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. Prior to joining MSI she was a Research Scientist in Dr. Read Montague’s lab at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia.

&nbsp;
