There will  be several STEM-related speakers participating in the TEDx@BeaconStreet event at the John F. Kennedy Library on November 18, 8AM-9PM. In-person seating is currently full for each block, but you can register here and then get on the waitlist. If you don’t clear the waitlist, you’ll still be able to view the simulcast, either onsite or online.

• Gina Ford, Principal Sasaki Associates
• Jim Heppelmann, President and CEO, PTC
• Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director MIT Media Lab
• Satchidananda Panda, Professor Regulatory Biology Laboratory at Salk
• Valerie Mosley, Chairwoman and CEO, Valmo Ventures Bio
• Cady Coleman, NASA Astronaut, NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist
• Justin Werfel, Senior Research Scientist, Wyss Institute at MIT
• John Ryan, Co-Founder, Banyan Infrastructure
• Lindiwe Matlali, Founder and CEO of Africa Teen Geeks
• Olle Ljungqvist, Professor of Surgery at Örebro University Hospital
• Bernard Harris, Former NASA Astronaut
• Tal Achituv, MIT Media Lab, Center for Civic Media
• Kathy Kleiman, Founder of ENIAC Programmers Project
• Tal Zaks, Chief Medical Officer, Moderna Therapeutics
• Fiorenzo Omenetto, Associate Dean for Research & SoE Tufts University
• Mina Khan, Software Engineer at Google
• Osman Kibar, CEO at Samumed

The Newton Free Library will host the following STEM events in October:

• November 2:  Scratch Club, 7-8PM, Grades 3-4. Space is limited.  Pick up tickets 15 minutes beforehand at the Children’s Desk.
• November Fridays:  Girls Who Code, 4-6PM, Grades 6-12.  Space is filled; waiting list.
• November Tuesdays:  Girls Who Code, 6:30-8:30PM, Grades 6-12.  Space is filled; waiting list.
• November 29:  Intro to Ozobots, 4PM, Grades 2-4.  Registration opens November 8.

Teachers leading the Newton South HS DaVinci program — Divya Shannon, Amy Richard and Molly Baring-Gould — will make presentations about this interdisciplinary STEAM program at both the Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers conference on November 2-3 and the Massachusetts STEM Summit on November 14. Their presentation, The daVinci Program — Building a STEAM Community, will focus on the benefits of integrated learning (especially incorporating art) at all stages, from developing a program to application in an individual teacher’s classroom. In this workshop, they will first discuss their motivation, growth, and lessons learned in developing this program, and then they will facilitate discussion among attendees about sample lessons, content, skills required, participants’ other efforts in this area, feedback on the DaVinci presentation, and the recruitment of community partners.

The Brigham Research Institute will host the half-day event, Discover Brigham, throughout the hospital on November 9, noon-6PM, highlighting the contributions of the 1,300 physician-investigators and biomedical scientists in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital community. The agenda includes: Population Science, Gene editing, Artificial intelligence, Nursing research, Trauma research, The microbiome across diseases, Immunotherapy, and Wellness and alternative medicine. It’s free and open to the public. Register here. For more information, email bwhbri@partners.org.

The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University opens its planetarium for free public presentations on the third Friday of each month (except April).  The show on November 17 at 7PM (for adults at teens 14+) will be Back to the Moon for Good, including a 25-minute film about the Google Lunar XPrize and a live presentation about one team’s efforts to win it. Space is limited, and pre-registration (which opens two weeks before each event) is strongly recommended.  Arrive on campus 20 minutes early (directions and parking).