Last Friday on March 31, Phineas Bates Elementary joined the Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University to tackle engineering! We began our day by learning all about engineering. This lead into our first activity for the day – Reverse Egg Drop. Working in teams, the goal of this activity was to build a device […]
Last Friday on March 25, the Center for STEM Education had a chance to invite Perkins Elementary to Northeastern for the Paper Birds Competition. Thanks to Professor Alireza Ramezani and the members of his Silicon Synapse Lab, Juliane Hyvert, Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy and Adarsh Kaushik, we were able to welcome the 5th and 6th grade […]
Splash offers the opportunity for high school students to take fun and informative workshops offered by Northeastern undergraduates. This day-long event is entirely free, running from 8:45am – 6:40pm on Saturday, March 18th at Northeastern University’s Boston Campus. Come for as many sessions as you want throughout the day! Workshops cover a wide variety of […]
Last Friday on February 3rd, the Center for STEM Education had an exciting day at Perkins Elementary as they taught three classes all about engineering, water pollution, and water filters. We began each session with a lesson on what is engineering, the engineering design process, and what makes an engineer. After learning that each and […]
Last Friday on January 27th, the Center for STEM Education welcomed Curley K-8 School to Northeastern University where they were able to learn more about rockets with AerospaceNU, Zombie Ants with Professor Henzy’s Lab and about the college experience at Northeastern University with the Center for STEM Education volunteers. The Center for STEM Education partnered […]
Last Friday on January 20th, the Center for STEM Education welcomed Milton Highschool to Northeastern University. The goal was to exposure these high school students to the college experience at Northeastern, all while learning more about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The day started off with an exciting engineering project, where groups of students competed […]
Last Friday, 12/9/2022, we had our penultimate field trip of the semester, wherein the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classes from the Chittick Elementary School came to learn about natural disasters and preparedness. Thank you to NEU volunteers for making this day possible: Maya, Erika, Munin, and Courtney The day focused on learning about natural […]
We would like to invite you to join us at our Engineering for Everyone Expo on Friday, February 24th from 10:00am-12:00pm at Northeastern University. This expo is open to the public and we encourage K-12 students and their parents to attend. During this time, Northeastern student organizations and volunteers will present hands-on tabletop activities/demos about various science, technology, engineering, and math […]
Last Friday, December 2, 2022 the Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University, in collaboration with the College of Engineering/Admissions, hosted the Fall edition of our Building Bridges event. 93 students from 36 different schools in 3 states came to learn all about engineering. Students picked from 14 different sessions, wherein students learned about various […]
On Monday December 5, three members from NUCLEUS (Northeastern University Community Liaisons for Education Using STEM) partnered with the Center for STEM Education to visit the Higginson/Lewis K-8 School. They visited the fourth grade classroom, working with 35 students. Katie, Haley, and Mikey started off the day by discussing engineering as a field and as […]