On Friday, April 8th we had our penultimate field trip of the academic school year, wherein we went to visit the fourth graders at the Tucker Elementary School in Milton. Thank you Professor Eno Ebong for sponsoring this field trip, and PhD students Chinedu and Nicholas from her lab for helping out (and Hadeel and […]
Robotics Afterschool Program – Spring 2022 PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, this program is postponed indefinitely, sorry! As such, we will not be able to run this program in Spring 2022. We will be post another update if/when the program is running again. This spring, Khoury PhD Student David Klee and Professor Robert Platt, in partnership with […]
On Tuesday, March 29th we visited the St. Agatha School in Milton, visiting two 6th grade classes. In one room was Teddi (who ran our affiliated Genetics Afterschool Program last year) and myself, whilst in the other room were our two work studies Gabby and Zandria. Today’s topic was engineering and the design process. During […]
Yesterday, on March 22nd, the fifth graders (40 students) from the Chittick Elementary School had a virtual STEM field trip with us, with their teachers Tanya Haney and Courtney Brady. This is the 7th year the Chittick has come since 2012 -> always a joy to have y’all here! Thank you to NU students Zandria, […]
Today we had another virtual field trip with the third and fourth grade classes at Edison K-8 School. For this 1 hour field trip, which had 100 students in five classes, we talked about engineering and solving problems – with a focus on civil engineering. NU students Gabby (Civil Engineering) and Zandria (Industrial Engineering) came […]
Last Friday (February 11th) we had our first STEM field trip of the Winter/Spring semester. This time, we had a virtual field trip with two classes (~34 students) at the Phineas Bates Elementary School. This is our 5th consecutive year working with Ms. Hughes’ 4th graders – and was a blast, as usual. The 2.5 […]
On Friday, December 3, 2021 the Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University, in collaboration with the College of Engineering/Admissions, hosted the Fall edition of our Building Bridges event. 103 students from 32 different schools in 5 states came to learn all about engineering. Students picked from 12 different sessions, wherein students learned about various […]
On Friday, November 5th we went on our penultimate reverse field trip (for this semester), visiting two fourth grade classrooms at the Higginson/Lewis K-8 school in Roxbury, (Boston). With me were two volunteers: Mikey and Caitlyn, two PhD students in Professor Heather Brenhouse’s developmental neuropsychobiology lab and NUCLEUS graduate student members: thank you both for […]
On Friday, October 22nd we had our 3rd field trip of the semester, this time a virtual field trip with the 4th and 5th grade classes at the Holmes Innovation School. The theme for the day was “Natural Disasters” – which is especially pertinent now, as we are currently in a natural disaster – the […]
On Friday, October 15th, 2021, we had our second reverse field trip of the year! We visited the 1st grade classes at the Mission Grammar School in Mission Hill (Boston). A younger field trip audience than usual (we typically do 4th-8th graders), this field trip was our third ever with Mission Grammar (the teacher we […]
