Northeastern’s Center for STEM Education Giving Day!Northeastern University is hosting its annual Giving Day today! This is an amazing opportunity to support the Center for STEM Education and help us continue providing nearby communities with fun and exciting STEM activities to encourage a new generation of STEM thinkers. Every year the Center for STEM Education hosts a variety of programs for students to get involved. Learn more about these programs below (or reading our blog posts about events)! STEM Field Trip SeriesThe Center for STEM Education offers 4th to 8th grade students an opportun ..read more

Last Friday, on March 22nd, students and teachers at Mildred Ave K-8 School visited Northeastern University for the first time. About 50 eighth grade students split up into three classrooms to learn all about Catapults, Reverse Egg Drops and Earthquakes. In the Catapults section, students learned about projectile motion and accuracy and precision. They then were provided popsicle sticks, a rubber band and a lot of duct tape to construct their own catapult. Each team had a chance to test their catapult by launching skittles at a target and scoring points based on how accurate their catapults we ..read more

The Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education ran their 5th annual Engineering Exploration Week on Tuesday, February 20th to Friday, February 24th. During Engineering Exploration Week, we invited students for a week long program to learn exciting STEM concepts and apply them to fun projects. We began the week by introducing the students to the Engineering Design Process. This sets the foundation for the rest of the week as students learn what it means to be an engineer and how they are engineers! As engineers, they then learned about the United Nations Sustainable Dev ..read more

We’re extremely excited to announce that we are undergoing a huge name change! The Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education seeks to build and support a community of educators, researchers, and students with the collective goal of strengthening the K-20 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educational ecosystem. Despite the new name, our goals remain the same. The Center for STEM Education aims to: Build, support and sustain a community of individual, institutional and organizational support in STEM engagement, enrichment and persistence. Impact ..read more

The Center for STEM Education is hosting their annual Engineering for Everyone Expo! We are looking for engineers in the making. Come and be inspired and enrich your understanding of engineering. Students of all ages are invited to join us for this free event! We welcome all aspiring scientists, engineers, and inventors to Be Inspired at the Engineering for Everyone Expo. Families, parents, children are all invited to join us! Learn more about engineering through a variety of activities, experiments, and demonstrations. Meet students pursuing engineering pathways at Northeastern University and ..read more

This summer, we will be running our annual YSP (Young Scholars Program). 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 24 to August 1 and will involve research in various fields of STEM such as chemistry, biology, pharmaceutical sciences, computer engineering, chemical engineering, and bioengineering with faculty and graduate student mentors. Students will also have the opportunity to explore various career pathways by attending and listening to Northeastern g ..read more

This summer we will be running our third year of this REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site: Pathways for community college students to enrich their education and careers (REU-PATHWAYS). This 10 week summer research site will run from May 28 to August 1 and will involve research in various fields of engineering with College of Engineering faculty and graduate student mentors. Accepted students will receive a stipend of $6000 over the course of the summer and are provided with supporting hardware (laptops). The program, which will take place on Northeastern’s Boston Campus, will cul ..read more

Last Friday (10.6) marked our second field trip of the 2023-2024 academic year! 50 students from Dever Elementary School in Boston came to Northeastern to participate in STEM activities. The day started with a presentation on the Engineering Design Process and the fundamentals of bioengineering. The first activity the students completed was a reverse egg drop. They tried to build a device to catch an egg — without breaking — dropped from a height! The egg worked as a great example of a brain and a skull to emphasize the importance of wearing helmets and for the ongoing research in the brain in ..read more

On Friday, October 20th, Center for STEM Education staff participated in UP Academy Dorchester’s inaugural Spark: A Day of STEM Exploration! Over 600 middle schoolers from the Boston area came to UP Academy to join in hands-on activities to help them engage with and think about STEM concepts. We brought paper rockets as our activity! Due to the organisation of the day — the middle schoolers rotated in groups with their classroom teachers and stayed at each table for about 10 minutes — we had to slightly modify what we would typically do with that age group. The students worked in teams to desi ..read more

On Monday, October 16th, the Center for STEM Education was able to participate in the grand opening of the new EXP building! After the showcase,  30 high school junior and senior students from the O’Bryant School joined us in one of the EXP classrooms for the a short talk by Associate Dean Richard Harris, followed by the hexbug activity led by Professor Jennifer Love and volunteers. Working with just a single index card and some tape, the students constructed designs for their hexbugs that would keep them within the ‘battle arena’ — even if another teams hexbug tried to knock them out. Th ..read more