This is a call for crowdfunding "the think tank" a mobile cognitive science lab that will travel to HSs to teach students about cognitive science and help them design and carry out their own inquiries. might be a cool sample project for Intersections
first person by Naomi Shah, winner of Intel Science Talent Search. Discusses her research, her work getting young girls interested in science and her future plans.
NYTimes story about Sylvia Todd, young maker with a following. "With her father, James Todd, filming her, Sylvia uses puppetry, theme music and her home as a laboratory to demonstrate how things work. She makes science fun, mostly by having fun herself."
A Blueprint: Maker Programs for Youth is just what it sounds like, directions for starting a maker program. It may have ideas that will be helpful to teams as they design their science-literacy projects.
Saving TED talk here as well. Discusses science/engineering as an act of translation, discusses making connections between biological record and human anecdote, and involves fashion, too.