Registration is open for the Massachusetts STEM Summit, to be held on April 15, 8AM-3PM at DCU Center (50 Foster Street, Worcester). See promotional video. Lists of workshops and exhibits will be available soon. The registration fee of $50 will be waived for full-time students. Register early, as this event usually sells out. For more information, contact Dana Bienkowski at 774-455-7372 or
StemSummitInfo@donahue.umassp.edu.

Each spring, NEPTUN (a Northeastern University student group) hosts Splash!, a free program for students in Grades 9-12 to take mini-classes led by Northeastern undergraduate and graduate students.  This year it will be held on two consecutive Saturdays, March 14 & 21, 9AM-5:20PM, in Ryder Hall (11 Leon Street, Boston).  Registration is open and is first-come/first-served and requires setting up a free student account. Pizza will be available, or you can bring your own lunch. For more information, contact nu.neptun@gmail.com. This year’s catalog includes these  STEM-related classes:

• Amateur Rocketry Basics: Manufacturing & Launch
• Amateur Rocketry Basics: Rocket Science & Design Process Overview
• At the Ends of the Earth: Life in Deep Ocean Trenches
• Biomimicry
• Clinical Microbiology, aka Poop Medicine
• Code Within Code
• Egg Drop
• Engineering a Diode Circuit
• How (not) to Die in a Chemistry Lab
• Introduction to Sound
• Mechanical Engineering of the Catapult
• Playing with Perception
• Programming Languages: History and Types
• Psychiatric and Neurological Disorder
• Psychology: Let’s Get Stressed!
• The Apotheosis Hypothesis
• The Cat Conspiracy and Other Mind-bending Parasites
• The Fermi Paradox: Are We Alone Out Here?
• The Sweet Chemistry of Sugar, and How to Make It Explode
• This Is Going Tibia Great Class: Anatomy Through Dissections
• This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Take one Pill a Day and Cry
• What’s in Your Head 101
• Would You Believe It? An Exploration of Weird Medical History
• Your Body Is a Clock: Chronobiology

The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State University opens its planetarium for free public presentations each month (except April). This month’s film, Habitat Earth, will be shown three times this weekend for different audiences. Space is limited and for guaranteed seating you must pre-register at these links and arrive 15 minutes before show time (directions and parking):

• February 21, 7PM (for ages 14+) film followed by talk by Dr. Megan Lehnerd, Assistant Professor of Food and Nutrition at Framingham State University
• February 22, 1:30PM (for ages 7+)
• February 22, 2:30PM (for ages 7+, with captions)

A suggested donation of $5 per guest is requested. For more information, email cmc@framingham.edu.

The Smith College Society of Women Engineers will host a free, half-day event, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, for girls in Grades 6-8 on March 7. It will be held in Ford Hall on the Smith College campus. Register for either of these two sessions: 9AM-12PM or 2PM-5PM and pick one of five activities: Egg-celent Automobiles, ENGINE-ering, Code (crackers): Computers </, Hydroponics: Plant Power, or Ready-Set-Design! For more information, email smithigted@gmail.com.

Congregation Mishkan Tefila will host a fun and exciting JSTEAM Mad Purim Nitrogen Ice Cream Oneg event on Erev Purim before Megillah Reading on March 9, 6PM-7PM.  Attendees will participate in a hands-on demonstration about Nitrogen and enjoy freshly made Nitrogen Ice Cream. The cost is $5 per ice cream. Register at www.mishkantefila.org/form/JSTEAM/Purim.