The Newton Free Library offers several STEM-related events in May.  For each, space is limited, and you must pick up tickets 15 minutes beforehand at the Children’s Desk.

• May 2: Working With Wind: Wind Turbine Engineering, 7-8PM, Grades 5-7.
• May 18:  Scratch Club, 7-8PM, Grades 3-4.
• May 24:  LEGO WeDo, 7:30-8:30PM, Grades 5-7.
• May 25:  STEAM Ahead, 4-4:45PM, ages 3-5.

Boston Tech Mom (“a parent’s guide to raising a future techie”) is a great resource for all things STEM around Boston — including her monthly posts about STEM Events for Kids in Boston. Here’s her May list of STEM events, with her ever-growing list of Girls Who Code clubs.

Each spring, Olin College of Engineering holds two public events to showcase the work of its students:

• Olin Spring Exposition, May 8 (10AM-3PM):  First-, second-, and third-year students present their projects in poster sessions, oral presentations, and artistic performances. The list of presentations and performances will be available on the expo site the week before the event, but you can see last semester’s list here.  Register by May 7.  For information, email expo@olin.edu.
• SCOPE Summit, May 9 (9:30AM-3:30PM):  Seniors present the results of their year-long, corporate-sponsored Capstone projects via rocket talks and poster sessions.  Register to attend.

STEM Pathways — a Boston University/MIT outreach program for synthetic biology — will host its spring Dinner & Dialogue at BU on May 10, 4:30-7PM to “bring together teachers and administrators with the region’s STEM outreach programs, universities, industries, and resources for impact discussions and networking.”  The organization seeks input to ensure that high-school graduates have access to synthetic biology programs at Boston University and MIT, and that industry has a workforce that is skilled and technically competent for projected needs. Admission is free, but you must RSVP here by 10PM on May 8.  For more information, email connect@stempathways.org.