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 […]
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 […]
On Friday, November 18th we hosted a special field trip, titled “What’s Engineering?”. On this day, sixty fifth-grade students from the Edison K-8 school classes came in to learn more about physics: Catapults and Egg Drop. After a quick introduction to Northeastern and the Center for STEM Education, we opened the floor to Nicolas Fuchs, […]
On Friday, October 14th we had our second field trip of the 2022-2023 academic year. On this day, 39 fifth+sixth grade students from the JP Manning School came to learn about engineering. Thank you to NEU students Lauren, Maya, Erika, Munin, and Nigel for helping out today! We started by learning about engineering and the […]
On Saturday, September 19th, we had our first field trip of the 2022-2023 academic school year! Working with our partner organization, Ron Burton Training Village, we hosted 60 girls (grades 6-12) for a day focused on AI/energy and policies thereof. Thank you to all STEM volunteers who attended today, including two completely new volunteers(*): Karen, […]
Dear Teachers, Principals, Science Coordinators, etc., Northeastern University’s Center for STEM Education will be continuing it’s STEM Field Trip series in the 2022-2023 academic school year. We will be offering three types of field trips: On-Campus (coming to Northeastern), Reverse (we come to your school), and Virtually. The survey has questions related to all three […]
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 […]