Today was the third field trip of National Engineer’s Week! We typically only run field trips (especially virtual ones) for upper elementary and middle school students, but today we had 9th and 10th graders from the Dearborn STEM Academy. The theme of today’s field trip was “Engineering in College.” First, attending students had a STEM/College […]
Today was our second field trip of National Engineer’s Week! 75 x 4th/5th graders from the Tobin K-8 School came to learn about Engineering and the Design Process! Today’s field trip was led by NU students (and Center for STEM Education work studies) Tyree and Hadeel, with additional assistance by NU students Karen and Samantha. […]
Today was our first field trip (of four) of National Engineer’s Week! The Mendell Elementary School, which we’ve partnered with in the past for the Excellence for All’s robotics program (and Nick did his student teaching practicum there), came for a virtual visit – their whole fourth grade (44 students) was in attendance! Sam and […]
From Tuesday, January 26th to Tuesday, February 23rd, the Center for STEM Education launched the first half of its second Pathways to Science and Engineering session. This program is geared towards high school students interested in pursuing careers in STEM. Graduate students, faculty members, and alumnae across various disciplines present their current research or topics […]
Our partner organization, Roxbury Robotics, a Northeastern CoE student organization dedicated to community outreach, is running a variety of (free) STEM workshops this spring that we encourage all students, ages 7-15, to participate in (Boston and neighboring communities have priority)! They will be running 9 different workshops, each running for 8 weeks, starting the week […]
On Tuesday, December 15th, we had a virtual field trip with Ms. Brigg’s fifth grade class (~16 students) from the Donald McKay K-8 School. This field trip was an Engineering Design Workshop, which is a shortened field trip (2 hours) with three specific activities: What is this Thing?, Paper Towers, and STEM/College 101. What is […]
Today (December 17th), during a blizzard, we had a virtual field trip with the Grew Elementary School‘s fourth grade classes (~35 students)! Joining us for the field trip (8:45-10:45am) was five Northeastern volunteers: Hadeel (joining from the UAE, at 5:30pm), Madisyn (from Atlanta, GA), Bryanna (from NJ), Tasha (from Northeastern), and Lauryn (from Las Vegas, […]
Fall Callback 2020 Yesterday (12/1/2020), from 3:30-5:00pm, we had our Fall 2020 edition of our programs callback [for middle school students], this time held virtually and led by Professor Jamie Henzy and 4th year Health Science undergraduate student Teddi Stanley. 13 students came to learn about DNA and biology research at Northeastern. The students started […]
From October 6th to November 24th, 2020, we ran our first virtual afterschool program, this one was only for alumni of our various academic and summer programs (hence the program name): we had 15 students in graded 6-9. Over the 8 weeks, we covered a variety of subjects, with the overarching theme of the program, […]
Welcome to Newsletter 25! >>Click Here for this week’s Newsletter<< In our newsletter you will be introduced to a STEM topic and find a related-activity to work on during the week (please share your results with us!), as well as extensions to additional learning or games related to the field. In addition, you will find […]