Green Newton created its School Connections initiative two years ago to promote environmental sustainability in and beyond Newton classrooms. It’s currently working with seven of Newton’s 15 elementary schools, one of four middle schools, and both high schools to create school gardens, teach sustainability, and develop awareness of environmental challenges and solutions. The group also sponsors Students for a Greener World — an organization of Newton middle- and high-school students interested in making a positive environmental impact and teaching kids about the environment. For more information, sign up for the School Connections e-newsletter and/or email schoolconnections@greennewton.org.
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“e” inc. Fundraiser: Wild & Scenic Film Festival, Oct. 19
“e” inc. — Boston’s environment science learning and action center — will host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival on October 19, 6:30PM-10:30PM, at Atlantic Wharf (290 Congress Street, Boston) as a fundraiser for its after-school and day-school programs, as well as for its hands-on planet-science learning for young children in the Boston area. Tickets are $58.61 for an evening of wine, food, and film.
Free Admission to Museums, Sept. 21, from Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine will sponsor Museum Day on September 21, when you can visit any of 50 museums in Massachusetts, 14 in New Hampshire, and 24 in Rhode Island. Go online to search for a museum and print out a ticket good for free general admission for two people. STEM-oriented museums that are participating include:
Massachusetts
- Amherst College – Beneski Museum of Natural History (free every day)
- Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
- Discovery Museum
- Ecotarium
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Museum of Printing
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Apply for Youth Cities L3 Innovation Challenge, Oct. 2-Nov. 13
The L3 Innovation Challenge is a design challenge bootcamp hosted by Youth Cities to immerse middle- and high-school students in innovation, design thinking, entrepreneurial problem-solving, and prototyping. It’s like a 24-hour hackathon, but it’s spread out over seven weeks, during which students play the role of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation Team to address a specified challenge. It has mandatory meetings every Wednesday from 5PM to 8PM from October 2 – November 13 at LabCentral in Cambridge. Pizza is provided. The cost is $570, and need-based scholarships are available. Apply by September 25.
Separately, you can also sign up for notice of Youth Cities’ monthly mini-hacks, which are two-hour white-board brainstorming sessions facilitated by local entrepreneurs and open to middle- or high-school teens, college students, entrepreneurs, educators, public officials, and other working professionals. They’re held at the Cambridge Innovation Center on the second Thursday of each month (except July-August) at 4:30-6:30PM, the same time that the CIC hosts Venture Cafe.
Code Ninjas Events in September
Code Ninjas in Wellesley will offer the following upcoming events:
- Digital Art Workshop: September 14, 1-3PM
- Back To School Open House: September 21, 2:30-3:30PM
- Parent’s Night Out: September 21, 5-8PM
- Project Night (Open to all kids and adults): September 27, 6-8PM
- Math & Physics in Games: October 2, 5-7PM
Worcester’s EcoTarium: Half-Price in September
Admission fees (except planetarium and Explorer Express Train) at Worcester’s EcoTarium are half-price in September.
BioBuilder September Workshops for Ages 10-14: Kids Who Clone
BioBuilder Learning Lab will offer the following workshops at LearningLab (700 Main Street, Cambridge) for students in ages 10-14 (ages 8-9 may participate with a parent or guardian in the lab). There is a $35 cost per student and no charge for chaperones attending with them. Click the dates below for details and to register. For more information, email Kelley Klor at kelley@biobuilder.org.
- What a Colorful World: September 8 (1PM-4PM)
- Making the Invisible Visible: September 15 (1PM-4PM)
- The Sweet Smell of Science: September 22 (1PM-4PM)
N. E. Aquarium: Ship-to-Shore: Exploring the Marine Monument in Our Backyard, Sept. 12
The New England Aquarium’s free public lecture series will host Ship-to-Shore: Exploring the Marine Monument in Our Backyard on September 12, 7PM-8:30PM in the aquarium’s IMAX theater. NOAA research scientists will provide a virtual tour of wildlife found in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument with footage from a deep-sea submersible. Cash bar and pop-up monument exhibit available 6PM-7PM. Register here.
Broad Institute’s Todd Golub: The March Toward Cancer Precision Medicine — Sept. 19
Celebrating its first 15 years, the Broad Institute in Cambridge is hosting Broad@15, a series of free, public lectures. On September 19, 6-7PM, the institute’s chief scientific officer and Cancer Program director, Todd Golub, will speak on The March Toward Cancer Precision Medicine. Register here.
MetroWest STEM Education Network: Focus on Creativity, Sept. 25
The MetroWest STEM Education Network will hold its quarterly meeting on September 25, 8:30AM-10:30AM, at the McCarthy Center Forum at Framingham State University. Jane Reynolds, President of FableVision Learning, will speak about Creativity in Crisis. Register here for free.