The Presentation

About this page

Curious Cat, who started this whole journey with a single question, now stands at a podium with a microphone. Speaking in front of others takes a special kind of bravery, and this page treats it with warmth rather than pressure. Presenting is also listening, because audiences ask questions, and those questions are a friendly, everyday cousin of peer review. Children see that a voice can be an instrument of science, and that the same curiosity that asks questions quietly can also answer them out loud, for everyone to hear.

Talk about it while you color

• What do you think Curious Cat says first into the microphone?
• How do you get brave when lots of people are watching you?
• If you had a microphone right now, what would you tell everyone about?