Category Archives: Virtual/Online

Newton Free Library: (Virtual) Little Lab Coats — Plants!, Feb. 16

The Newton Free Library will host a virtual session of Little Lab Coats to explore Plants on Wednesday, February 16, 6PM-7PM, for ages 6-9. The topic includes the complex makeup of a plant, how plants provide all living things with oxygen, and how they grow from seeds.  Registration is required and opens at 8:30AM on February 7. Space is limited.  A Zoom link will be sent to registered participants the day before the program.

Wentworth Institute of Technology: Two Free, Virtual Events for National Engineers Week, Grades 5-6, Feb. 23-24

Wentworth Institute of Technology will celebrate National Engineers Week (which coincides with school vacation this year) with two free, virtual events for Grades 5-6. Register at these links:

Broad Institute: Count Me In — How Engaging Patients Can Accelerate Cancer Research, Feb. 15

The Broad Institute‘s Science for All Seasons program will present a virtual event, Count Me In — How Engaging Patients Can Accelerate Cancer Research, February 15, 5PM-6PM. Register here for the webinar. Count Me In is a project that engages patients anywhere in the US and Canada who are diagnosed with any kind of cancer, and enables them to accelerate cancer research by sharing their samples, their clinical information, and their voices. The project started in 2015 focused on metastatic breast cancer, expanded to various other cancers, and last fall was opened to patients with any type of cancer.

Blue Hill Observatory: Model Mayhem: Meteorological Forecasting Madness, Feb. 2

On February 2, 11AM-12:30PM, the Blue Hill Observatory will host the first of several free webinars, starting with a discussion called Model Mayhem: Meteorological Forecasting Madness. Five veteran meteorologists will share their experiences of weather forecast guidance products and advances they have witnessed in their thirty-five year careers. Participants will learn how weather forecasting models work and how they often differ in forecasting output. Registration is required.

Harvard Holiday Lecture, Online: A Festival About Fluids, Dec. 11

Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will again hold its Holiday Lecture virtually this year, on December 11 at 1PM. This year’s topic is Go With the Flow: A Festival About Fluids. Before the webinar, please register here and also visit this page to submit photos and words to be combined into a word cloud about fluids. That page will also soon have lists of household materials to gather for use in demonstrations during the webinar, as well as experiments you can do at home.