TechGirlz, a nonprofit program of CompTIA, is hosting over 30 free, online workshops running in two-hour sessions throughout March and April for girls in Grades 5-8.
Category Archives: Virtual/Online
HMSC Online: Free Events for Various Ages, Feb. 23 & Mar. 9
Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will host these free, online events:
- Lessons from Plants: Online book discussion for older children and teens, February 23, 6PM-7PM. Register here.
- After-School Animal Encounters: Get Growing!: For younger children, March 9, 4PM-4:45PM. Register here.
FSU McAuliffe Center: Undiscovered Worlds — In-Person or Online, Feb. 25
The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University will host the film Undiscovered Worlds, February 25, followed by a presentation and Q&A about NASA’s search for exoplanets. The presentation and Q&A will be with Katharine Hesse and Evan Tey from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Science Office at MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. You may to attend either:
- In-person: 7PM for the film (recommended for ages 12+) followed by the presentation and Q&A at 7:30PM, $5 per person. Register here.
- On-line: 7:30PM presentation and Q&A, free. Register here.
Broad Institute: Virtual Seminar for Rare Disease Day, Feb. 28
The Broad Institute will honor an international event, Rare Disease Day, on February 28 with its own free, virtual seminar, Spotlight on Cancer, 2PM-5PM, streamed live from Broad’s auditorium. Register here.
Grades 7-8: Register by Mar. 1 for Virtual MIT Spark, Mar. 12-13
This year MIT’s Spark enrichment program for Grades 7-8 will be run virtually March 12 (9AM-6PM EST!) and March 13 (10AM-6PM EDT!). MIT students run Spark and teach its courses. The cost is $40 per student regardless of the number of courses taken, and there is generous, need-based financial aid available. Register by March 1 with your course choices to be included in the lottery for course placements. To maximize the number of time blocks in which you have classes, for each time block you should rank at least 3 classes and star at least 6 classes. After the lottery, there will be first-come/first-served registration for remaining spots. For more information, email spark@mit.edu. Among the 71 classes available are these STEM-related ones:
- Intro to Javascript (Beginners)
- Inside Java
- Let’s make a discord bot!
- How to make an impact in your community using programming and design
- PicoPlay Workshop: Program a Mobile Device!
- Making Your Own Water Filters
- Geometry and Beauty of Soap Bubbles
- Learn Rocket Science With MIT Rocket Team!
- How to be an Astronaut
- How to Build a Solar Car
- How to build a spacecraft
- Help Solve Climate Change!
- Algorithmic Justice through Media Literacy Education
- Digital humanities: what’s that all about?
- pRoPoSiTiOnAL LoGiC
- Information and the Redundancy of English
- A History of Number Systems
- Turning up the Heat: A Crash Course in Heat Transfer
- CRISPR: The Molecular Scissors
- Microbiome 101: What’s in your poop?
- Fun with Polymers!
- Wet lab: extracting strawberry DNA
- Coastal Ecology
- Ice Cream and Other Cold Things: Fun with Liquid Nitrogen
- How do we fight against COVID?
- FRUIT SNACKS!!!! with a side of some Biology
- Optics for Aerospace
- How to find Exoplanets
- The Ballad of You and Your Brain
- What is Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
- Ionizing Radiation: From Hot Rocks to Fusion Plasmas
- Nucleic Acids: The Symphony of Life
- Fun with Immunology
- Is life about to get CRISPER?: learn the basics of genome editing!
- A not-so-brief History of Particle Accelerators
- sticky situations
- Humans working on the Moon: training and guidelines
- Human Identification through DNA Typing
Women in Data Science: Virtual Technical Conference, Mar. 11
Harvard IACS, MIT IDSS, and Microsoft Research New England will co-sponsor a one-day, virtual event — the 6th annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) technical conference — on March 11, 10AM-2PM. Register here.
Newton Free Library Online: Habitat – Rainforests, Ages 5-8, Feb. 15
The Newton Free Library will present an online discussion for ages 5-8, Habitat: Rainforests!, on Tuesday, February 15 at 4PM. Learn why the world’s rainforests are they called rainforests, what animals live there, how rainforests differ across continents, how habitats vary within different layers of the rainforests, and the foods that are found there.
Grades 7-12: Sign Up by Feb. 15 for MIT’s Spring (Virtual) HSSP, Saturdays, Feb. 26-Apr. 2
MIT’s Spring HSSP is a five-week academic program for Grades 7-12, presented (online this year) by MIT on Saturdays, February 26 to April 2 (except March 12), 1PM-4PM. All online registrations completed by February 15 will be considered equally in the course-assignment lottery, and registrations after that will be taken first-come/first-served. The cost is $40 per student (regardless of the number of courses taken) and generous, need-based financial aid is available. Email spring-hssp@mit.edu for more information. The Spring HSSP course catalog covers many academic and non-academic topics, including these STEM offerings:
- Optimization of Human Performance for Lunar Work Environments
- Introduction to Epidemiology
- Physics of Light: Theory and Experiments
- A Practical Guide to Quantum Computing
- Soils: Science, Practice, and Sustainability
- Lab Techniques in Chemistry
- Introduction to Human Body Systems
- Cultivate a Microbial Garden
- Sensory Neuroscience
- STEM Lecture Series
- AI and Science: An Introduction to AI and its Role in Modern Research
- Using Computer Science to Model our World
- Introduction to the Theory of Computation
- Quantum Field Theory: A Mathematical Perspective
- Math in Logic Puzzles
- Playing Games with Infinity
- Algebra. All of it. From the beginning
Apply by Feb. 18: MIT’s CodeIt — Online Introduction to Coding, for Girls & Non-Binary Students in Grades 6-8, Mar. 9 – Apr. 27
MIT’s CodeIt program introduces girls and non-binary students in Grades 6-8 to Computer Science. It’s a free program, led by MIT undergraduates, using the Scratch programming language, and aimed at middle-school students with little or no prior experience in coding. It will be hosted virtually over Zoom over six weeks (March 9-April 27), in two parallel classes: Sundays 3PM-4:30PM or Wednesdays 7PM-8PM. There will be no classes on March 20 or 23. Apply here by February 18. For more information, email codeit-exec@mit.edu.
DiscoverE: Online Chats with Change Makers — James Webb Space Telescope, Feb. 24
For Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, DiscoverE will host an online Chat with Change Makers on February 24 at 12 noon with two engineers who work on the James Webb Space Telescope: Margaret Dominguez (optical engineer at NASA) and Stephanie Hernandez (systems engineer at Northrop Grumman). Students can hear their stories and ask questions. Register here to get the links for viewing on Zoom or YouTube. Future editions of Chats with Change Makers will be at 3:30PM on March 31 and April 28.