On November 15, EMPOWER seminar students honed their science communication skills in a workshop led by Kathy Lambert, a senior advisor with The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE) and Co-founder of the Science Policy Exchange.  The three hour workshop led by Lambert engaged students in communicating their research to lay audiences using three different mechanisms.  In an elevator pitch-off, students rated each other’s responses to the age-old question – “what do you do?”  Four senior trainees also shared their research via five minute lightening presentations, and six senior trainees prepared scientific abstracts on their current research using plain language intended for a lay audience.  All participants provided feedback to one another and received input from Lambert.  We look forward to seeing them communicate their science outside of the academy!