MIT’s Spring HSSP — a six-week academic program for Grades 7-12 — will be back in-person at MIT on Saturdays, February 25 to April 8 (except March 18), 1PM-4PM. Online registrations are open until midnight TONIGHT, February 19. More info is here.
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Teen Summer Expo highlights summer STEM programs, Feb. 6
The 18th annual Teen Summer Expo — where parents and teens (Grades 6-12) can get to know a range of camps, enrichment programs, and summer activities — will be held on February 6, 5:30PM-8PM at the cafeteria in Newton South High School (140 Brandeis Rd). STEM programs that will be attending the expo are listed here. Snow date: February 8. It’s free and open to all. Register here.
Shell collectors: Check out the Boston Malacological Club
The Boston Malacological Club is the second-oldest continuously active shell club in the U.S. It meets in in Room 101 of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (26 Oxford Street, Cambridge). Guests are welcome, and the meetings are kid-friendly. At the next meeting, on February 7, 7:30-9:30PM, the topic will be shelling adventures in Sanibel Island, Florida and the Bahamas.
HMSC’s “I ♥ Science” Festival, Feb. 11
Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street, Cambridge) will host it’s I ♥ Science Festival on February 11, 1PM-4PM. Meet amateur and professional scientists who study and collect mushrooms, shells, insects, and minerals. Talk with experts who create chocolate and grow carnivorous plants. Design an imaginary insect or craft a button to display your passion for exploration. Free with museum admission.
Northeastern University: Engineering for Everyone Expo, Feb. 24
On Friday, February 24, 10AM-Noon, Northeastern University’s Engineering for Everyone Expo will return in-person, in a new location — the Cabral Center at the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute (40 Leon St, Boston). Students of all ages — and particularly those in Grades K-8 with their parent/guardian — are invited to have fun and learn about engineering through a variety of activities, experiments, and demonstrations. It’s free. Pre-register here.
McAuliffe Center: Stargazing, Feb. 24
The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University will host a free evening of stargazing and observation on February 24, 6PM-7:30PM (weather permitting), in FSU’s O’Connor parking lot by Maynard Road in Framingham. For more information, email cmc@framingham.edu.
Discovery Museum online speaker series: Teaching Today’s Kids To Spot Tomorrow’s Fake News, Feb. 9
[CORRECTED DATE:} On February 9, 7PM-8PM, the Discovery Museum‘s speaker series will present Dr. Susan Engel of the Psychology Department at Williams College speaking about Teaching Today’s Kids To Spot Tomorrow’s Fake News. It’s free with pre-registration, and an optional $5 donation is suggested. She notes that by starting early, giving children the intellectual tools to assess the credibility of information is neither as hard nor as amorphous as it might seem.
Broad Discovery Series: Biomedical science and machine learning: A two-way street, Feb. 7
The next presentation in Broad Institute’s Broad Discovery Series of free, public lectures (formerly Science for All Seasons) will be on February 7, 6PM-7PM: Biomedical science and machine learning: A two-way street. Broad Core Institute Member Caroline Uhler will explain how these two fields are coming together and how today’s biological questions are motivating new developments in machine learning to help find answers. Register to attend either online or in-person (415 Main Street, Cambridge).
NSHS students hold MathCounts Competition for Oak Hill
On Tuesday, January 10, a group of Newton South HS students organized the School MathCounts Competition at Oak Hill Middle School. This annual competition introduces middle-school students to mathematics competitions in a friendly and low-key way. The competition was well attended, with lots of enthusiasm among participants and organizers.
The NSHS students ran the competition were all alumni of both MathCounts and Oak Hill. They did live grading and presented certificates and small prizes to the top scorers: Ryder, Jason, Christian, Joshua, Hailey, Natalie, Claire, Jayden, Kenneth, Adi, Kinaan, and Deesha.
Many of these high-school students — Elena, Steven, Isaac, Alexander, Jared, Noah and Dhruv –have been giving back to their community by teaching extracurricular math at Oak Hill since their freshman year.
This year the Chapter MathCounts competitions are held in-person for the first time since 2020. On February 4, twelve members of the Oak Hill Mathcounts Club will participate in the MetroNorth chapter competition. Last year, the Oak Hill team placed third in the MetroNorth competition and sixth in the statewide MathCounts competition.
McAuliffe Center: Stargazing, Jan. 27
The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University will host a free evening of stargazing and observation on January 27, 5:30PM-7PM (weather permitting), in FSU’s O’Connor parking lot by Maynard Road in Framingham. For more information, email cmc@framingham.edu.