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 […]
Dr. Silevitch’s latest gift ensures sustainability of transformative K-12 STEM programs at Northeastern University Dr. Michael B. Silevitch’s unwavering commitment to nurturing the next generation of scientists and engineers has taken another significant step forward. His recent generous donation to Northeastern University will bolster the sustainability of The Center for STEM Education’s vital programming, ensuring […]
Unfortunately this blog post just missed National Giving Day – which was yesterday – but you can still donate to the Center for STEM Education! Funds raised have a direct impact on programs we run: we are specifically looking for funding to help keep our Young Scholar’s Program free for all participants. Please consider donating […]
On Friday, November 21st we had our last STEM field trip of the Fall 2025 semester: this semester we had 6 field trips with a total of 311 students. This day St. Agatha School from Milton came with 62 middle school students to learn about engineering and the design process. Northeaster’s chapter of the Society […]
On Friday, October 31st (Halloween!) the Rafael Hernandez Dual-Language (Spanish) school came with 45 x 4th graders to campus for a day on engineering and to do hands-on engineering activities related to what they’re learning in science in school: forces and motion. Students used what they learned about forces in two ways: designing devices to prevent […]
In lieu of a field trip on Friday, November 14th, we hosted a second volunteer training day of the semester. This time we partnered with Northeastern’s chapter of SWE (Society of Women Engineers) [NEU Link] – and so their volunteers had a chance to practice some of the activities we do with students: specifically reverse […]
On November 7th, 2025, 38 5th and 6th graders from Chittick Elementary school came to Northeastern’s campus to learn about the ways engineers design to save energy. With no time to spare, each group was split into two sections: one sent to the civil engineering space to do the tiny homes activity, the other stayed […]