The Newton Free Library offers these STEM-related events in March:
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 March list of STEM events, with her ever-growing list of Girls Who Code clubs.
Boston Tech Mom is sponsoring the first Boston STEM Fair on March 12, 1-4PM at the Innovation Space in the Arsenal Project Shopping Center (across from Dunkin Donuts) in Watertown. It’s free for parents and kids (Grades K-12) who want to learn about opportunities in STEM including summer camps, after-school programs, college planning, and tech entrepreneurship. Exhibitors will discuss robotics, engineering, coding, 3D printing, science, web development, and more. There will also be raffles for prizes.
The New England section of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers invites everyone on a two-hour hike on March 18 through Purgatory Chasm State Reservation to learn about the geology of this glacially carved area. Meet at 10AM in the parking lot (198 Purgatory Road, Sutton, MA). For more information, contact Lori Weeden at Lori_Weeden@uml.edu.
Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center will host an Under the Sea Mosaic program for Grades 7-12 over the Spring school vacation (April 18-21), combining 3 hours of art and 2 hours of marine science each day. It will take place 9AM-3PM daily at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, and shuttle buses will be available daily to and from Ruggles, Wonderland, and Lynn/Central Square MTBA stations. The cost of $280 (plus $40 for those who take the shuttle) per person includes snacks but not lunch. Applications are due April 7, and spaces will be filled on a rolling basis, so apply now. For more information, contact Val Perini at 781-581-7370 x373 or v.perini@northeastern.edu.
More than 3000 scientists and supporters of science attended today’s enthusiastic Rally to Stand Up for Science in Boston’s Copley Square. See NYTimes video. Organizers asked everyone to text SCIENCE to 90975 or sign up at www.standupforscience.us in order to stay involved and get connected with the organizers of the rally, ClimateTruth.org and the Natural History Museum.
The Newton Free Library will host a free hackathon about data science on Sunday, February 26, 1:30-4:30PM for all students in Grades 7-12. It will start with a short lecture, followed by lots of free time for coding in Python. You may bring your own computer (with Python 3 installed) or use a library computer if you register in advance. No prior experience in programming is required. The Library will provide guidance in Python syntax and debugging. Students may work independently or in teams.
The Davis Companies will sponsor a free ‘lunch-and-learn’ event, Getting Started with STEM, Beyond Judging at a Science Fair, on February 23, noon-2PM at Synopsys (377 Simarano Drive, 3rd Floor, in Marlborough). It’s for technology managers and directors, human-resource professionals, and others interested in encouraging the next generation of STEM professsionals. Panelists include Newton’s Groot Gregory of Synopsys, Paul LeBaume of Dow Chemical, and Kelly French of PSW Youth Careers. Register here.
MIT’s Edgerton Center holds free Science on Saturday programs approximately monthly during the school year for elementary, middle, and high school students — as well as their parents and teachers. Each is a fun, one-hour, interactive presentation beginning at 10AM in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. Kids under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. No pre-registration is necessary but seating is limited and first-come, first-seated. The upcoming programs are March 4: Chemistry and April 1: How the Internet Works.
There are still a few seats left for the High School Marine Science Symposium, to be held on March 9 at Northeastern University in Boston and on March 15 at Salem State University in Salem. The remaining seats are reserved for school districts in which more than half of students are classified as economically disadvantaged.