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 […]
On Friday, October 17th, the Center for STEM Education had their fourth STEM Field trip of the semester, in which 69 x 6th grade students from the McKay K-8 School came to campus for a day all about Civil & Environmental Engineering and City Planning. The day started off right away with a Do-Now Activity […]
On Saturday, October 4th was the Massachusetts Teacher STEM Fair at Gillette Stadium. Organizations came to tabletop for visiting teachers, parents, and students to le arn more about possible classroom activities and connect with STEM Organizations. The Center for STEM Education took part in this event and showcased our Sumo Hexbugs activity, in which students […]
On Friday, October 3rd, 2025, we had our third field trip of the academic year, in which 55 fifth grade students from the Conservatory Lab Charter School came for a day on energy and electrical/environmental engineering. In a change from previous years, we implemented a Do-Now activity for the students to complete right as they […]
On Saturday, September 27th, 2025, we hosted the Beacon Communities Youth Enrichment Program for a STEM Field Trip to campus! 45 students in grades 6-10 attended the day, which was run in collaboration with NEU student groups: AerospaceNU and NUCLEUS. After a quick introduction to the engineering design process with the Center for STEM, AerospaceNU […]
On Friday, September 26th, 2025 we had our first STEM field trip of the 2025-2026 academic school year! The Edward Everett Elementary School from Dorchester (Boston) came with 45 fifth grade students for a day all about engineering! Students learned about engineering and the engineering design process and did three activities focused on different fields […]