On Friday, October 24th, Northeastern participated for the third consecutive year in UP Academy Dorchester‘s SPARK STEM event, in which all 4th-6th grade students from the UP Academy system come to the Dorchester school for a day of hands-on STEM activities. As part of this event, the Center for STEM Education ran two 20-minute tabletop activities: […]
Last Friday on February 3rd, the Center for STEM Education had an exciting day at Perkins Elementary as they taught three classes all about engineering, water pollution, and water filters. We began each session with a lesson on what is engineering, the engineering design process, and what makes an engineer. After learning that each and […]
On Monday December 5, three members from NUCLEUS (Northeastern University Community Liaisons for Education Using STEM) partnered with the Center for STEM Education to visit the Higginson/Lewis K-8 School. They visited the fourth grade classroom, working with 35 students. Katie, Haley, and Mikey started off the day by discussing engineering as a field and as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
On Friday, October 1st, we had our second field trip of the year – a “reverse” field trip (RFT) – where instead of students coming to us, we went to visit a school. We’ve done similar RFTs in the past, but it’s been awhile (last RFT in November 2017). For this field trip, we visited […]
On Saturday, September 25th, we held our first field trip of the semester in collaboration with the Ron Burton Training Village. They invited Nick and NU volunteers Maya, Brendan, Jonathan and I to the Boston Waterworks Museum. At the Museum, we worked with 40 girls who are interested in STEM to learn more about how […]
On November 7th, four Northeastern volunteers went to the Murphy K-8 School for a reverse field trip on the Engineering Design Process. Working with the school’s normal schedule, students were challenged to complete the Reverse Egg Drop activity with a limited amount of time. Volunteers Brian and Colin played an integral role in leading the […]