The Discovery Museum (177 Main Street, Acton) will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an admission-free Community Day on September 10, 9AM-4:30PM. Advance registration is required for all museum visits and opens ten days ahead, or on September 1 for this event. There will be indoor and outdoor activities, mini cupcakes, and a parade.
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Red Sox STEM Education Day, Sept. 29
Each year, the Red Sox welcome teachers and their students for STEM Education Day — a morning of STEM lectures and interactive exhibits (8AM-11:30AM), followed by the game at 1:35PM. This year, on September 29, the Boston 25 News Team will talk about weather and there will be an egg-drop experiment off the Green Monster, as well as exhibits by Sunovion, iRobot, JetBlue, Wasabi, Unruly Splats, Project Lead the Way, New England FIRST, and others. Tickets ($12) are for the morning plus the game.
RoboBoston: School Field Trips, Sept. 30; Robot Block Party, Oct. 1
MassRobotics will host RoboBoston, the 5th annual robot block party, on October 1, 11AM-4PM, at Seaport Common (85 Northern Ave, Boston). It’s free and open to the public.
On September 30, RoboBoston will host its School STEM Field Trip Day for schools to send groups of students in Grades 7-12 for 1.5 hours of interactive activities and demonstrations. Space is limited, and schools should apply as soon as possible.
There will also be a Robotics and AI Technical Career Fair on September 30, 4PM-6PM.
Discovery Museum — Science & Engineering Communication Fellows, Apply by Oct. 3
The Discovery Museum (177 Main Street, Acton) seeks Science & Engineering Communication Fellows. Apply by October 3. For further information, email Liz Leahey, Director of STEAM Education. Accepted Fellows will attend professional-development workshops 10AM-3PM on October 22 and November 5, then until early December, consult with education professionals to develop a hands-on activity, and test their hands-on prototypes with Discovery Museum educators. Finally, on December 2, 5PM-8PM, Fellows will meet with the public and share their research and hands-on activities at the Museum;s Meet the Scientists & Engineers event, held during December’s Free Friday Night.
Cambridge Science Festival, Oct. 6-9
The Cambridge Science Festival will be back, in-person, October 6-9 at the Kendall/MIT Open Space (292 Main Street, Cambridge), with a different emphasis each day. Admission is free.
- October 6: Science + Climate — dedicated to all things environmental, renewable, and sustainable
- October 7: Science + Food — the latest in edible chemistry, at a “farmer’s market of the future”
- October 8: Science + Fashion — runway shows, exhibitions, discussion and interaction with designers, makers, engineers, brands, artisans, influencers and the public
- October 9: Science + Carnival — a family-friendly, science-themed, Great American Carnival, noon-4PM featuring a Main Stage, Midway, Side Shows, Walk-abouts, with “competitions and challenges, interactive engineering and hands-on experiments, design workshops and demonstrations, from telescopes to microscopes, from celestial bodies to synthetic bodies, lasers, DNA, the brain, from marine biology to biological machines, from circuit-boards to circus-shows… and very many robots!”
Borealis — Simulating the Northern Lights in Kendall Square, Oct. 6-9
The Cambridge Science Festival will host Borealis — a free light-and-sound installation simulating the magic of the Northern Lights — at the Kendall/MIT Open Space in Kendall Square in Cambridge 8PM-11PM on the nights of October 6-9. The public is invited to come and go, move around, and enjoy its constantly changing aurora. The works’ creator, Dan Acher, is an international artivist based in Switzerland, an Ashoka Fellow and the founder of Happy City Lab.
TYE Entrepreneurship Academy for 2022-23, Grades 9-12, Apply by Sept. 30
The TYE Entrepreneurship Academy is a rigorous, school-year extracurricular program for Boston-area students in Grades 9-12 interested in STEM, business, and social innovation. It meets biweekly on Saturdays at the Cambridge Innovation Center, September-May. It uses a proven curriculum in entrepreneurship and business acceleration, taught by experts in the field, to help students tackle real-world problems. Along the way, it helps students identify and develop pathways to reach personal and professional goals. In teams, students build products, apps or service-based businesses using design thinking, customer feedback, iteration, and lightweight business models. Financial aid may be available. Applications are due September 30. Register to attend an informational webinar (5PM-6PM) on September 6 or September 13 or September 20.
McAuliffe Center: Open House, Stargazing and Planetarium Show, Sept. 2 & 6
The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University will host free Open Houses and evenings of stargazing and observation on September 2 and September 6, 7:30PM-9:00PM (weather permitting), in FSU’s O’Connor parking lot by Maynard Road in Framingham. Telescopes will be aimed at the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Albireo (double star), Mizar (star), and Epsilon Lyrae (multiple star system).
As part of the Open House, the Center will offer tours of the Challenger Learning Center and present a planetarium film, Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries. Masks are required indoors. For more information, email cmc@framingham.edu.
The McAuliffe Center recently received $5 million in state funding for a major redesign project to create five multifunctional, technology-enabled learning spaces offering modern visualizations and simulation capabilities.
CSRecitations: Fall Classes, In-Person, Start Sept. 12
CSRecititations (5 Michigan Drive in Natick) is registering students (ages 8-18) for its in-person after-school classes starting on September 12. Classes are for all levels — from beginner to competitions — in Scratch, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Python. Founded by local MIT alumni, the center also hosts math and coding competitions and offers private and semi-private sessions in math and computer science.
EiE Offers Seeks Pilot Sites for Family Engineering Activity for STEM Nights
The Museum of Science’s EiE Families curriculum development team seeks pilot sites for its new family engineering resources. If you are hosting a STEM night for ages 4-11 between October 15 and December 16, you may apply to run an EiE activity during your event. Apply by September 15. Sites that are selected will be notified by September 22 and will receive a free materials kit, an activity guide, visual resources, and a $200 stipend for your time in running the activity and providing online feedback.