Worcester Polytechnic Institute and WGBH will present Touch Tomorrow — a festival of science, technology, and robots — on Saturday, June 10, 10AM-4PM at WPI (directions).  It’s family-friendly, fun, free, and open to all ages — with a particular focus on what’s interesting for middle- and high-school students.  WPI faculty and students will open their labs and share their work and engage the public in hands-on activities and demonstrations.  Registration beforehand is appreciated. Download the Touch Tomorrow app for iPhone or Android as your guide to the festival.

WGBH will host the Design Squad Team Challenge competition for teams of 2-6 students in Grades 5-8 to design and build a structure.  See a video hint and register your team. Choose your first round (12:30 or 1:30) and be prepared to for the final round at 3PM.

EurekaFest is a two-day celebration of invention and engineering sponsored by the Lemelson-MIT Program and highlighting the results of selected high-school InvenTeams from across the country.  (Newton North HS participated in 2013.)

June 16 at MIT Stata Center (32 Vassar Street, Cambridge).  Register here.

• 9AM-11AM:  InvenTeam Presentations
• 1-2PM:  Life After InvenTeams (alumni panel discussion)
• 3-5:30PM:  InvenTeams Showcase
• 5:30-7:30PM:  National Collegiate Student Prize Awards Ceremony

June 17 at the Museum of Science.  Museum admission fee applies.

• 11AM-3PM:  Hands-on activities for all ages
• 1PM-4:30PM:  High-school “Duck ‘n Hover” wind-powered design competition

Students in Grades K-8 — and their parents — are invited to learn about FIRST Lego League (FLL) at FLL Info Night, hosted by the Newton LigerBots on May 30, 7-9PM in Newton North HS’s Film Lecture Hall (by the school’s front entrance on Tiger Drive). At the event, students and parents can learn more about FLL and what roles students can play on FLL teams — such as being a researcher, coder, or engineer — and they can meet others who are interested in forming FLL teams. FLL is for Grades 4-8, and FLL Jr. is for Grades K-3. For more information, email FLL@ligerbots.com.

The LigerBots — Newton’s FIRST Robotics team, spanning both high schools — offers this information session as a community service, in part because FLL is a great introduction to the engineering, teamwork, and project skills that make great future LigerBots. The LigerBots also support FLL by mentoring local FLL teams, hosting FLL competitions, and promoting the principles of FIRST.

Newton South HS’s Science Department will hold its annual Open House on May 31, 3:30-6:30PM. Current and future NSHS students and their parents — and the general public — are invited to see exhibits and talk with science faculty and students to learn about their work. Grade 9 students and their parents may be especially interested to learn about the science, technology, and engineering programs at Newton South.

Newton Montessori School (80 Crescent Avenue, in Newton Centre) will host an open house for parents of prospective students on Wednesday morning, May 31, 8:30-9:30AM. Adults will learn about the Montessori model of collaborative exploration, gain firsthand experience with Montessori materials, and meet key staff. Registration is requested. The school serves students from age 15 months through Grade 6. For more information, contact mason.sand@newtonmontessori.org or 617-969-4488.

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 June list of STEM events, with her list of Girls Who Code clubs.

The Newton Free Library will host the following STEM events in June. Except as noted, space for these events is limited, and you must pick up tickets 15 minutes beforehand at the Children’s Desk.

• June 13:  The Science of Paper Airplanes, 7-9PM, all ages. No registration or tickets required.
• June 15: Storytime Surprise — Outer Space, 4-4:30PM, ages 3-5.
• June 15: Scratch Club, 7-8PM, Grades 3-4. Programming with Scratch. S
• June 22: STEAM Ahead, 4-4:45PM, ages 3-5.

Newton South HS’s Science Department will hold its annual Open House on May 31, 3:30-6:30PM.  Current and future NSHS students and their parents — and the general public — are invited to come talk with science faculty and students to learn about their work.  Featured exhibits and activities include:

• Open classrooms, with displays of student work, including:
  • Family Chemistry Poster projects
  • A.P. Biology projects
  • Honors & ACP Biology energy projects
  • Physics Meets Biology poster displays
• DaVinci STEAM projects, including:
  • Engineering projects
  • Computer 3-D animation
  • Murals on canvas
  • Live music / music synthesizers
• Presentations by the NSHS Science Team and the LigerBots Robotics Team
• Fun With Chemistry demonstratons for kids, by A.P. Chemistry students
• Technology & Engineering display
• Sustainability/ garden display