Tomorrow (April 14, 2026) is Northeastern’s annual Giving Day! This is a great opportunity to support the Center for STEM Education and help us continue providing communities with fun and exciting STEM activities to encourage a new generation of STEM thinkers. Funds raised have a direct impact on programs we run: each year, the Center […]
On Friday, March 20th, 2026, we hosted approximately 60 third and fourth graders from Perkins Elementary School in Curry McLeod Suites for a very fun STEM field trip! The day began with an engineering warm-up activity: the Paper Towers Challenge. Working individually, each student was given just a single sheet of paper and challenged to […]
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Love (20 years!) – Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director, for the Center and Nicolas Fuchs (10 years!) – Program Manager for the Center for their many years at Northeastern! Yesterday, Jen and Nick joined many other Northeastern faculty and staff at the NEU Service Recognition Reception (~100 people in person, but […]
On Friday, February 20, 2026, the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education celebrated National Engineers Week by hosting our annual Engineering for Everyone Expo in the Curry Student Center Indoor Quad! This free, family-friendly event brought together many student-led engineering clubs from across campus to showcase hands-on activities and demonstrations […]
On Friday, February 6th, 2026, the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education hosted 12th graders from Boston Latin School and 9th graders from the John O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science for a special STEM field trip on our Boston campus to support Boston Public Schools’ STEM education initiatives. We […]
On Friday January 23, 2026, the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education hosted 40 fourth grade Boston Public School students from the Henry Grew School in Hyde Park for another successful STEM field trip! Several Northeastern student volunteers helped teach and facilitate activities throughout the day. The Grew students first […]
SWE’s Cool Women, Hot Careers – February 7th | 10am-3pm | NEU’s Boston Campus Northeastern’s affiliate chapter of SWE (the Society of Women Engineers) is hosting Cool Women, Hot Careers next week. Are you in high school? Do you love math and science? Sign up to explore engineering with female engineering students at Northeastern University! […]
On Friday, January 16th, 2026, we hosted twenty-five fourth grade students from the Samuel Adams Elementary School (Boston Public School) for a STEM Field trip focused on civil engineering and disaster preparedness as our first field trip of the Spring 2026 semester! We had several Northeastern student volunteers to help teach and facilitate activities throughout […]
This summer, we will be running our annual YSP (Young Scholars’ Program) – now in it’s 30th year. YSP offers future scientists and engineers a unique opportunity for a hands-on research experience while still in high school. This 6-week summer research program will run from June 22 to July 30th, 2026 and will involve research […]
