On Friday, November 1st, fifty students in the 4th-6th grades from the Mary Lyon K-8 School came to campus to learn about natural disasters. The students started by developing disaster plans and emergency kits for a variety of natural disasters prevalent in Massachusetts, including fires, hurricanes, snowstorms, and heat waves. The students then learned more […]
On Friday, October 18th, we had our third field trip for the semester! This time, the Haley Pilot School came with 44 x 6th graders for a day on Engineering and Natural Disasters. Students were given the goal to create a deployable flood barrier – modeled on Boston’s Coastal Resilience Planning for East Boston (and […]
Our second field trip of the semester was on Friday, October 11th. This time, Al-Hamra Academy from Shrewsbury came for their first field trip, with 48 middle school students. As usual, the day began with learning about the Engineering Design Process (EDP) and roleplaying the process (designing a more effective alarm clock: one that pulls […]
Our first field trip was on Friday, October 4th: 35 x 5th/6th graders from the Chittick Elementary School came for a visit. Students learned about the engineering design process, then split up and alternated activities. In our Civil Engineering-focused activity [first image], students visited Northeastern’s Earthquake lab (EQL) (thank you CEE Professor Nancy Varney for […]
This semester began with a volunteer training session on September 20th – with 14 volunteers participating; a mix of past and new volunteers. The slides for the day introduced what the Center for STEM Education is and what we do, talking about broader impacts and the learning goals for STEM field trips. Volunteer expectations, engagement […]
Last Friday, on March 22nd, students and teachers at Mildred Ave K-8 School visited Northeastern University for the first time. About 50 eighth grade students split up into three classrooms to learn all about Catapults, Reverse Egg Drops and Earthquakes. In the Catapults section, students learned about projectile motion and accuracy and precision. They then […]
Last Friday (10.6) marked our second field trip of the 2023-2024 academic year! 50 students from Dever Elementary School in Boston came to Northeastern to participate in STEM activities. The day started with a presentation on the Engineering Design Process and the fundamentals of bioengineering. The first activity the students completed was a reverse egg […]
On Friday, October 13th, we welcomed around twenty-five 5th grade students from the Chittick Elementary School to campus. First, they learnt all about natural disasters and emergency kits. Working in teams, the students were assigned different natural disasters and brainstormed what they wanted in their emergency kits for the home as well as what they […]
On Friday, September 29th we had our first STEM field tip of the 2023 – 2024 academic school year! On this day, 45 fifth grade students from the Edward Everett School in Dorchester came to learn about engineering (also known as problem solving). First, the students did the reverse egg drop activity! Instead of the […]
Last Friday (9.22) we had our Volunteer Training Day for the Fall 2023 semester. Many volunteers came out to learn what their role would be in any upcoming field trips, got their questions answered on how to get involved, as well as got hands-on experience with some of the events that are held during field […]
