Category Archives: Virtual/Online

Jane Street’s 8th Annual ‘Women in STEM’ Program, July 27-28

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.

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?

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.

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