Blue Hill Observatory will offer a free webinar, Solar Eclipse 2024, on March 12 at 6:30PM, about the solar eclipse coming on April 8. The webinar features host Tim Kelley and climate scientist Dr. Tamara Ledley.
The Blue Hill Observatory will also host an in-person Eclipse Viewing Event on April 8 at 2PM. (donation $30, or $20 for students and seniors).
Register here for either or both events.
Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach will host a live webinar — Engineering Design Challenge — for students in Grades K-12 on February 21 at 4PM. Register here.
“Kids will be presented with an engineering design challenge to do at home with whatever materials they have around the house (cardboard, string, tape, paperclips, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, cups, scissors, paper towel rolls, random LEGO bricks, etc). While attendees build, a panel of Tufts undergraduate students and a professional engineer will talk about engineering and their paths to studying engineering.”
Lemelson-MIT and the Digital Harbor Foundation are hosting another workshop webinar it their “Harnessing the Inventive Spirit” series. This one, Electronic Textiles, will be on November 16 at 7PM. Register at that link.
MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program (July 9-August 13) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school). Courses are run virtually on Zoom by volunteers on Sundays at various times between 1PM and 4PM. Registration is now open until June 27 on a lottery basis, with equal consideration given to all applicants registering by that deadline. The cost is $50 regardless of the number of courses taken, and generous financial aid is available. For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu. The course catalog for this summer contains these 17 STEM courses:
The next presentation in Broad Institute’s Broad Discovery Series of free, public lectures (formerly Science for All Seasons) will be on May 24, 5:30-6:30PM. Five emerging scientific visionaries will talk about their efforts in addressing neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases, sudden cardiac death, infectious disease diagnosis and surveillance, and rare genetic disorders. Register to attend — either in-person (415 Main Street, Cambridge) or virtually. In-person attendees are invited to a reception in the Broad Discovery Center following the talk.
This event is a collaboration with BroadIgnite, a Broad Institute program that partners rising philanthropists with early-career researchers involved in high-risk, potentially high-reward projects.
Lemelson-MIT will host free webinars for inventors at 7PM, April 10-13:
The Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will host its Public Observatory Night online on March 16, 7PM-8PM, with a livestream of Monitoring Air Pollution from Space, presented by Caroline Nowlan, a physicist in the CfA’s Atomic and Molecular Physics Division. The event will be streamed on the CfA’s Facebook and YouTube channels.
MIT’s MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offers two programs for current Grade 11 students:
See the FAQs. Applications are due by February 1, and teachers’ recommendations are due by February 15.
TKS is a ten-month (September-June) global innovation program for ambitious students in ages 13-17. It currently has in-person programs in three cities in Canada and three in the U.S., with future plans for other cities — including Boston at some point. For Boston and the rest of the world outside those six cities, TKS has an online program with weekly online sessions of 2-3 hours each, on weekends or weekdays after school. Tuition is $4,890 and TKS is committed to supporting ambitious students with financial aid on a need basis. Early applications are due February 28, after which applications are accepted and reviwed on a rolling basis until May or until the program is full.
[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.