MilliporeSigma (80 Ashby Road, Bedford) invites schools to apply online for two field-trip opportunities in September:
The Discovery Museums (177 Main Street, Acton) offers free admission each Friday in summer, 4:30PM-8:30PM, for both its Children’s Discovery Museum and Science Discovery Museum, courtesy of MathWorks and Middlesex Savings Bank. Donations for local food pantries gratefully accepted. See other programs for August.
Gique invites girls ages 10-14 as it brings its Science Can DANCE! program to the Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester (35 Deer Street, Boston) on Saturday, August 6 from 10:30AM to 2:30PM. The event is free and will be filmed by WGBH PBS for broadcast in the fall. Snacks/lunch will be provided. Register online. Gique’s Science Can DANCE! offers workshops like this one to help youth explore STEM through creative movement and dance choreography. Each workshop is led by local dancers who are also scientists/engineers (or local scientists/engineers who are also dancers!), which provides a mentorship for students interested in both STEM + Arts. The event ends with a final dance performance in which participants show off science concepts they learned throughout the day and their new dance moves.
On Monday, August 1, Science Club for Girls launches its 12-day #TeenSTEM Campaign to support its Young Leaders in STEM (YLS) summer program in Boston and Cambridge. See the campaign video and consider making a donation for items such as:
The public is also invited to the YLS Summer Showcase on August 11, 5:30-7:30PM, at Simmons College’s Paresky Conference Center (Main College Building, 300 Fenway in Boston), where YLS students will present their summer projects. Register (free) and donate (optional) for a terrific program. Check out Science Club for Girls on Facebook and Twitter.
Each month, the BostonTechMom blog provides a comprehensive list of technology-oriented events for kids in the Boston area for the upcoming month. See the August issue, which also includes a list of Girls Who Code clubs in the greater Boston area.
Project Learning Tree will present a professional-development workshop for teachers — Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood (PreK-K) — at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Brookwood Community Farm in Canton on August 20, 10AM-1:30PM. Cost is $15 per person. For questions or to register (by August 13), contact Gini Traub at Gini.Traub@state.ma.us or 413-584-6788. Project Learning Tree’s award-winning environmental-education program is sponsored by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Moms As Mentors offers programs to support mothers as they mentor their daughters through community building, developing relationships, and experiential learning. The group is hosting these upcoming STEM-related events in the area:
The Needham Public Schools seeks to hire an Interim K-5 Science Curriculum & Instructional Leader and Science Director at the Needham Science Center, to cover for maternity leave, November 7-April 14.
The Newton Free Library will again offer its hugely popular Girls Who Code after-school program for girls in Grades 6-12 on Friday afternoons 4-6PM during the 2016-17 school year. Can you volunteer 2 hours per week as an instructor using the Girls Who Code computer-science curriculum? It’s best if you’re proficient in programming languages, with intermediate knowledge of data structures and algorithms. Perhaps you’re a current or former software developer or a current undergraduate/graduate student in computer science. The most successful volunteer GWC instructors have experience teaching or working with youth — as teaching assistants, camp counselors, or tutors — although this is not required. To express interest or get more information, email teens@newtonfreelibrary.net. Make a huge impact — in two hours per week over the school year.
Men and women in the innovation economy, young professionals, and students are invited to a free story slam focusing on Women in Innovation: AHA Moments, September 27, 4:30-6:30PM at Microsoft NERD Center (1 Memorial Drive in Cambridge). Female leaders in Boston’s innovation economy will share 10-minute stories — of career-changing realizations, discoveries, and conversations — followed by Q&A. It’s part of HubWeek and sponsored by Microsoft and LaunchSquad. Register now.