Boston College will hold BC Splash on Sunday, November 13, in-person. Splash is a one-day, student-run program in which undergraduates and graduate students teach mini-courses for students in Grades 7-12. There will be a parallel Parent Program about admissions and financial aid, sample splash classes, student panels, and campus tours. There’s a $10 fee for the day, which includes a pizza lunch. Registration is required and is first-come/first-served. For more information, email bcsplash@gmail.com. Among the courses offered this year are these STEM-related ones:
- Forensics 101
- Infant to Teen Psychology: How We Become Who We Are!
- Let’s Innovate! A Choose Your Own Adventure Game about Technology
- Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Medical and Daily Application
- How useful are quantum computers?
- Math is Weird, Math is Fun
- Psychosocial Epidemiology
- Intro to Programming in Python
- Global Public Health Issues & How We Can Help
- COVID-19: Understanding and Modeling Viruses
- Straws and Turtles: Our Global Plastic Pollution Problem
- Neurophysiology of Timothy Syndrome
- Understanding Cryptocurrency
- Congressional Apportionment
- Cancer: Investigations of Basic Biology and Public Health
- Pre-Dental Info Session
- The Final Frontier: A History of Space Exploration
- Intro to Game Programming
- How to Save a Life
- Want to be an EMT?
- The science behind photography
- Math intersects Art: Tessellations!
- Ethics of Genetic Engineering