On Friday, February 20, 2026, the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education celebrated National Engineers Week by hosting our annual Engineering for Everyone Expo in the Curry Student Center Indoor Quad! This free, family-friendly event brought together many student-led engineering clubs from across campus to showcase hands-on activities and demonstrations […]
On Friday, February 6th, 2026, the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education hosted 12th graders from Boston Latin School and 9th graders from the John O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science for a special STEM field trip on our Boston campus to support Boston Public Schools’ STEM education initiatives. We […]
On Friday January 23, 2026, the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education hosted 40 fourth grade Boston Public School students from the Henry Grew School in Hyde Park for another successful STEM field trip! Several Northeastern student volunteers helped teach and facilitate activities throughout the day. The Grew students first […]
SWE’s Cool Women, Hot Careers – February 7th | 10am-3pm | NEU’s Boston Campus Northeastern’s affiliate chapter of SWE (the Society of Women Engineers) is hosting Cool Women, Hot Careers next week. Are you in high school? Do you love math and science? Sign up to explore engineering with female engineering students at Northeastern University! […]
On Friday, January 16th, 2026, we hosted twenty-five fourth grade students from the Samuel Adams Elementary School (Boston Public School) for a STEM Field trip focused on civil engineering and disaster preparedness as our first field trip of the Spring 2026 semester! We had several Northeastern student volunteers to help teach and facilitate activities throughout […]
On Friday, October 31st (Halloween!) the Rafael Hernandez Dual-Language (Spanish) school came with 45 x 4th graders to campus for a day on engineering and to do hands-on engineering activities related to what they’re learning in science in school: forces and motion. Students used what they learned about forces in two ways: designing devices to prevent […]
In lieu of a field trip on Friday, November 14th, we hosted a second volunteer training day of the semester. This time we partnered with Northeastern’s chapter of SWE (Society of Women Engineers) [NEU Link] – and so their volunteers had a chance to practice some of the activities we do with students: specifically reverse […]
Northeastern’s NEPTUN (Northeastern Program for Teaching by Undergraduates) is again hosting the Fall edition of SPLASH, wherein high school students (grades 8-12) take fun and informative workshops offered by Northeastern undergraduates. This day-long event is entirely free, running from 9:00am – 5:10pm on Saturday, November 8th at Northeastern University’s Boston Campus (located in Ryder Hall). […]
On Friday, October 24th, Northeastern participated for the third consecutive year in UP Academy Dorchester‘s SPARK STEM event, in which all 4th-6th grade students from the UP Academy system come to the Dorchester school for a day of hands-on STEM activities. As part of this event, the Center for STEM Education ran two 20-minute tabletop activities: […]
The week of Oct 20-24 was Massachusetts STEM Week 2025 (mass.gov link). This year’s focuses on “STEM starts now”: at any age you can learn about STEM, from our youngest learners to adult learners, and STEM educational opportunities and jobs are here at this very moment in Massachusetts. As part of this week, we wanted […]