May 15, Sunday — Seventh- to 10th-graders and their parents from around Northern California will spend a day at UC Davis learning about the brain, with talks, demonstrations and hands-on activities that will include dissecting sheep brains. Organized by the UC Davis Graduate Group in Neuroscience, the event will give students and their parents the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge science and technology from experts in the field. From 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., participants will engage in hands-on activities of visual and perceptual illusions; from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., they will take part in sheep brain dissections and measuring brainwaves. Hands-on activities will take place in the Sciences Laboratory Building, Hutchison Drive, on the UC Davis campus, and lectures will take place in the adjacent Sciences Lecture Hall. The participants are taking part in Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth.