Dreams of a Scientist Mission
Using storytelling and art to integrate scientist stories into your local communities and everyday life!
Whether we are featuring scientists’ journeys in a children’s book, on a postcard, or on our social media, we want to showcase the amazing scientists who are actively researching the natural world!
Our values
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The first step in learning to love something is knowing that it exists. The second step is understanding it. We aim to educate about marine animals and their ecosystems in order to increase a connection and love for the ocean.
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The best way to come up with novel solutions to societal questions and problems is to have many voices from all different backgrounds. Sharing from unique experiences connects people, encouraging them to make a collective impact. By diversifying science, we nurture creative solutions that improve ourselves and society.
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We strive to make the biggest impact that we can, and we know that we can not do that alone. We want to bring together scientists, creatives, school systems, and communicators to help the next generation fulfill their potential.
Why are we inspiring the next generation of scientists and educating support systems?
“Growing up, I always loved biology, but I never had a career goal in mind. As a high schooler I thought about being a vet, but decided that would be a dreary place to work. In my early college years, I thought about being a psychologist, but then realized I could not work with people in that capacity. In my junior year of college, I learned about fundamental research, or research that is done in the pursuit of knowledge not to solve a problem or create a product. I loved the idea that I could study a system to better understand it, so I pursued a research position in a lab studying lizard cognition. As I approached graduation, I knew this was the career path for me, but I decided I would study an even stranger animal: the octopus!
Now when I tell elementary and middle schoolers that I study octopus brains, their jaws drop. While this is so rewarding in the moment, I know that it is essential that these kids have well-informed support systems that never say ‘studying octopus isn’t a real job’. I hope that this book will make readers’ jaws drop as they learn about the incredible fundamental research that scientists from historically excluded groups are doing, and that it will encourage support systems to say, “anyone can be a scientist, you can study whatever you are curious about.”
-Angelique Allen, author