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 […]
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 24, 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, […]
