Medical Delta PhD student on primary school children's theatre tour

With the 'Hoe?Zo!Show', a group of academics brings science to a young audience. In a theatre tour for group 6 pupils, they explain in clear language what science is and what insights scientific research provides. Medical Delta PhD student Martijn Nagtegaal (TU Delft), involved in the scientific programme Medical Delta Diagnostics 3.0: Dementia and stroke, is one of them.

On stage, Nagtegaal not only talks about his research into brain scans (MRI) to better map brain development, but he also answers questions from children, together with other PhD students. These questions vary. And so it may happen that he portrays the evolution of mankind on all fours.

On all fours

The newspaper Trouw published an article about the tour this weekend. From Trouw: "On all fours the PhD student crawls across the stage. A room full of primary school children looks on with interest, especially when he jumps up to swing an imaginary vine.

In everyday life, Martijn Nagtegaal applies mathematical models to MRI scans, but now he is explaining how the evolution from ape to homo erectus took place. Welcome to the Hoe?Zo!Show, in which young scientists are given a few minutes to improvise an understandable answer to any question that an elementary school pupil can think of."

Read the full article from Trouw here (in Dutch).