Dear Teachers, Principals, Science Coordinators, etc., We (Center for STEM Education) will be continuing our STEM Field Trip series in the 2021-2022 academic school year. We will be offering three types of field trips: Virtually, On-Campus (coming to Northeastern), and Reverse (we come to your school). The survey has questions related to all three types […]
Today marks the beginning of week 8, with 2 weeks of the REU-POWER program remaining! Students have gotten the opportunity to work closely with their assigned faculty member on a power related research project. In addition to their lab work, students are participating in a variety of learning experiences with emphasis on power and energy. […]
On June 1st, we welcomed 12 students virtually from 10 institutions participating in the REU POWER program. For the summer students will be working with remarkable faculty and graduate student mentors from across the university including: Ali Abur, Michael Kane, Brad Lehman, Sanjeev Mukerjee , Aatmesh Shrivastava, and Taskin Padir. We are so appreciative and grateful for the […]
We’d like to share with you an opportunity for a virtual, 8-week STEM summer program for BPS high school students, the Data Analytics Summer Program, run by Professor Alice Mello at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies. This program will run from July 6th through August 26th on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting at either 2pm […]
On Thursday, April 29th, we had our last field trip of the semester! The Boyden Elementary School from Walpole came for a special field trip, learning about engineering. The vast majority of our field trips have been for students in grades 4-6, occasionally teaching students in grades 7-9. This field trip however was for 2nd […]
On Friday, April 16th, we hosted the Driscoll Middle School (52 x 8th graders) for a virtual field, teaching about Natural Disasters. Field trip was led by myself (due to the modified schedule), with assistance by Sakura, Sena, Tasha, Tyree, and Anya. This was our first field trip where all the attending students where in […]
On Wednesday, April 14th, 30 fourth grade students from the Phineas Bates Elementary School came to Northeastern for a virtual field trip to learn about the engineering design process. This is now the fifth consecutive year that Ms. Hughes’ 4th grade classroom has come for a field trip! Today, NU student volunteers Hadeel and Samantha […]
On Thursday, April 1st, the Peaslee Elementary School in Northborough came to a virtual field trip with the Center for STEM Education, organized by/with CPS Associate Director for Licensure Jennifer Madonna. Sixty-five fourth grade students came for a day to learn about engineering and the design process. NU Volunteer Francheska led, whilst Tyree, Madisyn, Lauryn, […]
Today was the last day of the Genetics Afterschool Program, running for the first time this winter. Created by Northeastern undergraduate student Theodora Stanley (Health Science ’22), in partnership with NU Biology professor Jamie Henzy, this six week afterschool program taught students all about genetics, as outlined below. Week 1 (2/25): DNA: A Self-Portrait | […]
STEM Afterschool Program – Winter 2021 Last Thursday we wrapped up this semester’s STEM Afterschool Program, which ran for 8 weeks from January 28th to March 25th on Thursdays from 3-4pm and had a total participation of 56 students! This semester’s program was focused on “Careers in Engineering:” students learned about a variety of engineering […]