Each spring, NEPTUN (a Northeastern University student group) hosts Splash!, a free program for students in Grades 9-12 to take mini-classes led by Northeastern undergraduate and graduate students. This year it will be held on two consecutive Saturdays, March 14 & 21, 9AM-5:20PM, in Ryder Hall (11 Leon Street, Boston). Registration is open and is first-come/first-served and requires setting up a free student account. Pizza will be available, or you can bring your own lunch. For more information, contact nu.neptun@gmail.com. This year’s catalog includes these STEM-related classes:
- Amateur Rocketry Basics: Manufacturing & Launch
- Amateur Rocketry Basics: Rocket Science & Design Process Overview
- At the Ends of the Earth: Life in Deep Ocean Trenches
- Biomimicry
- Clinical Microbiology, aka Poop Medicine
- Code Within Code
- Egg Drop
- Engineering a Diode Circuit
- How (not) to Die in a Chemistry Lab
- Introduction to Sound
- Mechanical Engineering of the Catapult
- Playing with Perception
- Programming Languages: History and Types
- Psychiatric and Neurological Disorder
- Psychology: Let’s Get Stressed!
- The Apotheosis Hypothesis
- The Cat Conspiracy and Other Mind-bending Parasites
- The Fermi Paradox: Are We Alone Out Here?
- The Sweet Chemistry of Sugar, and How to Make It Explode
- This Is Going Tibia Great Class: Anatomy Through Dissections
- This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Take one Pill a Day and Cry
- What’s in Your Head 101
- Would You Believe It? An Exploration of Weird Medical History
- Your Body Is a Clock: Chronobiology