Jane Street Capital — a quantitative trading firm in New York City — will host its eighth annual Women in STEM event virtually over two days, July 27-28, inviting selected women graduating from high school in 2020 to learn about the firm and how it uses math, computer science, and probability in its business. Apply by July 5. For more information, email womeninstem@janestreet.com.
Category Archives: Virtual/Online
Innovation & Biotech in the Time of COVID-19, June 2
On June 2, 1:30PM-2:15PM, LabCentral will host another of its free online sessions about Innovation & Biotech in the Time of COVID-19. This session will feature C. A. Webb of the Kendall Square Association and Gerhard Koenig of ARKUDA Therapeutics. Registration is required.
Science Club for Girls: Free Online Shows
Science Club for Girls has broadcast six online sessions of its weekly science show, SCFG Live!: Spring Into STEM, with hands-on activities, videos, podcasts, and virtual tours. Recordings of these shows are available on SCFG’s Facebook page, YouTube channel, the SCFG website, and the public-access television stations of Somerville, Cambridge, Lawrence, Lowell, Boston, and Brookline. New live shows will start the week of June 12.
Museum of Science #MOSatHome Schedule, June 1-5
Boston’s Museum of Science offers free live online sessions with museum educators the week of June 1-5, with similar events scheduled at the same times in future weeks. Register via the link above for these:
- Coolest Science Stories: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12PM.
- Science in Action: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1PM, including Water is Weird, and Playing with Polymers.
- Virtual Planetarium: Tuesday at 1PM, Friday at 2PM, including Exploring Space and The Sky Tonight.
- STEM Beyond School: Monday through Thursday at 2PM: At-home engineering activities, including Exploring Computers and a Weekly STEM Challenge, using the Museum’s EiE curriculum.
- Ask a Scientist: Monday through Friday at 3PM and Tuesday at 12PM: Q&A panels on topics such as marvelous mammals, human evolution, lightning, and space exploration.
- Live Animals: Thursday at 1PM, What’s That Smell?
Mad Science: Free Global Online Event, June 5
Mad Science will host a free worldwide online event, Blast Off with Mad Science, on June 5, 3PM-4PM, featuring four space-themed experiments you can do at home during the webinar, plus a Q&A session with former NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan. Space is limited, and registration is first-come, first-served. For more info, call 781-806-0472 or email info@MadScienceNorthBoston.com.
iCode: Summer Camps, both Online and Onsite
iCode (73 Central Street in Wellesley) is offering summer camps for ages 6-18 — both online and onsite — in the areas of AI & Machine Learning, Multiplayer Game Development, 3D Printing & Product Design, Robotics, Game Development & Design, App Creation, Digital Artwork Creation, YouTube Production, Minecraft, Roblox, and coding for high school students. Click the links above for schedules, details, and how to register. Rigorous safety protocols will be followed for onsite camps.
Black Girls Code: Game Design–An Epidemiology Simulation, June 10
Black Girls Code will host a free online session, Game Design: An Epidemiology Simulation, on June 10, 4PM-5:30PM, for students 11 years or older. Register here.
Girls Who Code BU Chapter Hosts Online Workshops for All
The Boston University chapter of Girls Who Code is hosting a series of online coding workshops, and all are welcome regardless of gender. Topics include Python, C++, Java, MatLab, Machine Learning, LaTeX, HTML/Javascript Web Development, Amazon Web Services, Behavioral Interview Hacks, and Technical Interview Preparation. Registration is required.
Girls Who Code Talks: College, Internships, and Careers During COVID
Girls Who Code is sponsoring a series of four free talks about college, internships, and careers in technology during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View recordings of two completed talks:
And register for these upcoming talks (7PM-8PM):
- May 28: No Internships? Now What?
- June 11: How to Be Brave, Not Perfect… in a Crisis
Mass. Science & Engineering Fair: Alumni Speaker Series
For students in Grades 6-12, alumni of the Massachusetts Science & Engineering Fair are speaking online in a series about their academic and professional pathways, with an interactive Q&A for each. View them live on Zoom as they are presented (3:30PM – 4:15PM on the days indicated) or see recordings of completed talks.
- May 14: Nathan Blazon-Brown, Grad Student, Biotechnology, Harvard Extension School
- May 19: Nick Rabb, PhD Student, Computer Science & Cognitive Science, Tufts University
- May 20: Cecilia Hinojosa, PhD Candidate, Experimental Psychology, Tufts University
- May 21: Richard Parent, MustangBio
- May 26: Maurice (Mo) Steinman, Lightelligence
- May 27: Lei Poo, Analog Devices
- May 28: Sean Cotton, Synlogic
- June 2: Joyce Wu, Analog Devices
- June 3: Rajni Aneja, Sanofi Genzyme
- June 4: Rachael Bonoan, Post-doctoral Researcher, Tufts University
- June 9: Jim Doscher, Analog Devices