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 […]
On Friday, February 14th we had another STEM field trip, this time a visit from 5th grade students (x45) from the JFK Elementary School, returning for their second year. Today we learned all about Natural Disasters and how Engineers (and ourselves) can prepare for them. In the morning, the students learned about Natural Disasters/Hazards and […]
Today, on February 7th, we had 24 students joining us from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission Grammar School (5th and 6th graders). Our introduction to engineering presentation, led by STEM work study students Anya and Hadeel, informed the students about what engineering is about (solving problems!), the engineering design process (Ask|Imagine|Plan|Create|Improve), and what the […]
Today we had our third field trip of the semester, and this time the fourth grade (36 students) from the Phineas Bates Elementary School came. This is their 3rd year in a row (last year and year before) coming to campus, and it was great to have them back! The students learned about engineering (problem […]
26 fourth grade students from Grew Elementary School in Hyde Park visited Northeastern. A Northeastern student group, FirstByte, taught the students binary communications via a Find the Mountain Climber activity. The students then asked our volunteers questions during the College 101 panel. They enjoyed learning about the different majors and were all interested in what […]
On Friday, January 17th we had our first STEM Field Trip of the Spring 2020 semester. 45 fifth grade students from the Joseph Lee Elementary School came to learn about Aerospace Engineering. This field trip was done in cooperation with the Northeastern student organization Aerospace NU, who helped throughout the day. The day started with […]
