iCode School of Wellesley will host its STEAM Day open house on June 23, 10AM-4PM, at its new location at 73 Central Street in Wellesley. Space is limited, so register here for this free event full of games, activities, competitions, and prizes. Learn how drones fly, try a Virtual Reality game, participate in a Robo-Battle competition, and create and draw in 3D. For more information, call 781-291-3131.
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Empow Studios: AI and Ethics, June 24-28
Empow Studios, with graduate students from MIT’s Media Lab, is offering students entering Grades 5-9 a one-week summer workshop exploring Artificial Intelligence and Ethics, June 24-28. Students will learn about AI and its strengths and weaknesses while participating in problem-solving and design-thinking activities.
“e” Inc. Activity Night: Rainforest in a Bottle, June 20
“e” inc. — Boston’s environment science learning and action center — hosts Activity Nights for ages 5-7 on the third Thursday of each month, 6PM-7:30PM. On June 20, the theme will be Rainforest in a Bottle, and kids will make their own take-home terrariums. Registration fee of $5 covers activities, art projects, and snack.
Highland Street Foundation: Free Fun Fridays at Museums This Summer
The Highland Street Foundation is once again hosting Free Fun Fridays, during which it provides support to about 100 selected museums and cultural venues open to everyone for free on specified Fridays. Here are the STEM-oriented Free Fun Fridays on the schedule this summer:
- June 28: MIT Museum
- July 5: Amelia Park Children’s Museum, Children’s Museum in Easton, The Telephone Museum
- July 12: Charles River Watershed Association, The Children’s Museum of Greater Fall River, Springfield Museums
- July 19: Arnold Arboretum, Boston Children’s Museum, Cape Cod Children’s Museum, Sandwich Glass Museum
- July 26: Larz Anderson Auto Museum
- August 2: Chatham Shark Center, Franklin Park Zoo, Children’s Museum at Holyoke
- August 16: The Discovery Museum, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
- August 23: Buttonwood Park Zoo, Heritage Museums & Gardens
- August 30: EcoTarium, Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Free Lectures at New England Aquarium: Next, July 18
The New England Aquarium hosts a series of free, public lectures, sponsored by the Lowell Institute. Register at the following link for the next lecture: July 18, 7-8PM: How to Be a Good Creature, by Sy Montgomery, author of Soul of an Octopus.
Coding Butterfly: $50 Discount for Summer Programs
Coding Butterfly (132 Charles Street, Auburndale) is offering summer programs in professional tools and languages, June through August. Use promo code SAVE50 for a $50 discount. For more information, call 617-420-2828.
- ROBLOX Game Programming: Ages 8-13
- Web Development in HTML and CSS: Ages 10-14
- Scratch Adventures: Ages 8-12
- 3D Game Development with Unity and C# CoBuKart Racing: Ages 12-15
Broad Institute’s Eric Lander Speaking at WBUR, June 10
Eric Lander, Founding Director of the Broad Institute and a principle leader of the Human Genome Project, will be speaking at WBUR’s CitySpace on June 10 at 6:30PM, in the station’s Boston Brilliance series. Tickets are $5. A limited number of free tickets for students may be available; email info@newtonstem.org by noon on June 10 for details.
Register by June 26 for MIT’s HSSP — Sundays in Summer for Grades 7-12+
MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program (July 7-August 18) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school). Courses are run on the MIT campus by volunteers on Sundays at various times between 10:30AM and 3PM. Registration is now open until June 26 on a lottery basis, with equal consideration given to all applicants registering by that deadline. The cost is $40 regardless of the number of courses taken, and generous financial aid is available. For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu. The course catalog contains these 36 STEM courses:
- Python By Example
- Quantum Information and Quantum Computation
- Hack all teh things
- Introduction To Machine Learning
- Trends in Software Engineering
- Random topic(s) in Engineering
- Inferential Statistics: How We Learn to Make Decisions
- Probability
- Elliptic Curves
- How to factor sin x?
- Linear Algebra
- The Computational Complexity of Games and Puzzles
- Advanced Topics in Combinatorics
- Mycology: Biology, Behavior, and an Introduction to Fungi
- Intro to Thermodynamics!
- The Chemistry of Food
- The Transition (Metals) of Life
- A Deep Dive into Drugs, Diseases and Development (and more!)
- Introduction to Biochemistry
- Intro to Synthetic Biology!
- Photobiochemistry
- The chemistry of colors and nuclear energy
- From Earth to Mars: An Introduction to Rocketry
- The Physics of Life
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- Climate change, climate action
- The Biological Basis of Neurological Disorders
- Epidemiology: The Science of Disease
- Pandemics, Epidemics and Genomics
- Intro to Organic Chemistry
- A Mirror Into the Mind: An Introduction to Neuroscience
- The Wonderful Science of Baking
- Sensational Neuroscience: How Your Brain Understands the World
- Blast Off: Intro to Airplanes and Rocketry!
- Rationality: How to model our world, seek truth, and strive for good decisions
- Lithographic Patterning: Photons, Electrons and Ions
Edge on Science: Build a Catapult, July 22-26
Edge on Science will offer a one-week team engineering workshop in Catapult Engineering for ages 10-14, July 22-26 at Regis College in Waltham. Register with promo code CATAPULT50 by June 10 to save $50. (Note: The registration page shows the June 24-28 session is full with a wait list, so scroll down that page for the July 22-26 session.)
Roxbury Community College: Free Summer STEM Camp for High-Schoolers, July 8-Aug. 9
Roxbury Community College’s STEM Division will offer a free, month-long summer STEM camp, July 8 to August 9, to help students entering Grades 10-12 prepare for STEM in college. Classes in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Robotics, and Maker Space will run Mondays-Wednesdays, 9AM-4:30PM, with field trips on Thursdays. Free breakfast and lunch are provided. Fill out the application (PDF) and mail it to RCC STEM Division; Academic Building 3, Room 401; 1234 Columbus Ave.; Roxbury Crossing 02120. For more information, contact RCC’s Dean of STEM, Hillel Sims, at 857-701-1501 or hsims@