Newton Public Schools will host its first Community Math Night on November 12, 6:30PM-7:30PM at Brown Middle School (125 Meadowbrook Road).
NPS will discuss important new updates to its math programs, including math pathways and instructional practices. NPS Superintendent Anna Nolin discussed some of these updates in her interview with Fig City News at the start of the school year.
MIT Splash will be held November 22-23 for students in grades 9-12, and new classes have been recently added. Students who missed the lottery deadline or who want to add classes have until 11:59PM on November 13 to register on a first-come, first-served basis. The cost is $60 but generous financial aid is available.
If classes are full, check back and refresh the registration page to see if seats have opened up. STEM-oriented new classes include:
The Newton Highlands Neighborhood Area Council (NHNAC) is presenting its annual Astronomy Night with astronomer John Harrington on November 13, 7PM-8:30PM (rain date: November 14) at the Hyde Community Center Playground (90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands). If visibility is questionable, check the NHNAC site for up-to-date informatoin on the event.
Refreshments will be served.
The next event in the Broad Discovery Series will be on November 19, 6PM-7PM, both in-person (Broad Institute Auditorium + Discovery Center, 415 Main Street, Cambridge) and live-streamed. This event is free, open the public, and appropriate for high school students and older.
Broad Clinical Labs CSO Niall Lennon will speak on the intersection of medical genomics, precision medicine, and preventive healthcare in a talk entitled “Entering the Genomic Medicine era: How technology, data, and biology can improve healthcare throughout our lives.” Register here.
The Cambridge Science Carnival will be held Sunday, September 21, Noon-4PM at the Kendall/MIT Open Space (292 Main St, Cambridge). It’s free to attend and hosted by the MIT Museum. Admission to the MIT Museum will be free that day, 10AM-6PM.
There will be over 100 STEAM-oriented exhibit booths, demonstrations, live music, and installations — including:
Robot Petting Zoo, where attendees can drive bots and mini-bots
A “Trash or Treasure?” sorting game hosted by Cambridge Recycling
NSF Center for MONET on the science of soccer
A live recording of the Tumble kids’ science podcast
Interactive demonstrations offered by the MIT Physics Dept.
The Cambridge Science Carnival is traditionally the last day of the multi-day Cambridge Science Festival. For 2025, the event has been compressed to one day. The MIT Museum has indicated that the Cambridge Science Festival will return in 2026 in a reimagined form.
The Carnival has a page about How to Get There by public transportation, bike, car, and foot. The site is a 15-minute walk from the Kendall Square MBTA station. MIT will offer free shuttle bus service to the Carnival from various locations. Parking ($15 ) is available at Hayward Garage (55 Wadsworth Street).
Each spring, Northeastern Splash offers students in grades 8-12 the opportunity to take engaging classes taught by Northeastern undergraduate students on a wide array of topics including stand up comedy, medicine, filmmaking, and robotics. This year, the free one-day event will take place at Northeastern University’s Ryder Hall on Saturday, March 29, from 9AM-5:10PM. A free lunch will be provided to all attendees. Sign up here by March 27, and contact Northeastern Splash at nu.neptun@gmail.com with any questions.
STEMucation, formed by Newton high-school students, will offer a free STEM workshop — Frozen Fun and Gooey Experiments — for elementary students on Sunday, December 8, from 1PM to 3PM at WPS Instittue (160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre), with which STEMucation is affiliated. The event aims to offer young learners engaging opportunities to explore STEM in a fun and interactive environment. Register here.
The LigerBots, Newton’s high school robotics team, will host the FIRST LEGO League Massachusetts-East Championship and a STEAM expo with activities for youth at Newton North High School on December 14 from 10AM-3PM. The competition will feature 48 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) robotics teams, with competitors in grades 4-8. In addition to building and programming robots to perform complex tasks in a competitive game, students have completed engineering projects, which will be displayed at the Expo, addressing real-world problems facing the arts.
This free Expo will feature hands-on activities from various organizations, a fire truck for children to play with and learn about, and interactive STEAM activities led by the LigerBots. Additionally, visitors will have the opportunity to observe and interact with robots created by the LigerBots and other robotics teams. Admission is free for both the tournament and the Expo.
Brandeis Fall Splash is taking place on Sunday, November 3 from 10AM-3PM at the Olin Sang American Civilization Center on the Brandeis campus (map). Middle and high school students can take fascinating classes taught by Brandeis undergraduate and graduate students in topics ranging from cosmetics techniques to the Greek-Persian War. The program is free and comes with lunch. Register here.
Clark University Splash offers classes for students in grades 5-12 taught by Clark University student including lectures, discussions, hands-on experiments, and lessons in the arts. It will take place on Sunday, November 17 from 9:30AM-2PM at Clark University’s Tilton and Jonas Clark Buildings. Register here.