Code Ninjas (161 Linden Street in Wellesley) will host these programs and events:
For more information, contact Annie Duong at 781-591-2413 or annie.duong@codeninjas.com.
On March 6, 4:30-5:30PM, Boston Children’s Hospital will host a talk, Breakthroughs in Genetic Medicine: RNAi Therapeutics from Bench to Bedside to Approval, presented by Kevin Fitzgerald, who directs research and translational science at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge. Registration is free for this event in Folkman Auditorium, Enders Building, Boston Children’s Hospital, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston.
iCode, which will open its STEAM programs at 73 Central Street in Wellesley in June, will host a free Demo Day at the Wellesley Library on March 23, 9:30-11AM. Pre-registration is requested. For more information, or to enroll in summer programs, contact the Campus Director, Pam Peck, at 781-291-3131 or pam.peck@icodeschool.com
Empow Studios STEM Enrichment Center in Newton has opened registration for:
Boston Tech Mom (“a parent’s guide to raising a future techie”) is a great resource for all things STEM around Boston — including her monthly posts about free or low-cost STEM Events for Kids in Boston. Here’s her Boston Tech Mom: Tech Events for Kids in March list of STEM events.
“e” inc. — Boston’s environment science learning and action center — will offer two one-week programs in its summer series, Unexplored Frontiers: The Deep Ocean (August 19-23) and The Solar System & Beyond (August 26-30). To register, scroll down their program page to find the forms to print out and return (by USPS mail or email) and then pay online or by USPS mail.
Kids 4 Coding, based in Atlanta, offers full-day and half-day summer programs for ages 7-16 in two Boston locations: Bentley University in Waltham and Lesley University in Cambridge. The following programs are offered during some weeks in one or both locations:
Ages 7-9:
Star Wars Droids + AR Design
Minecraft + Circuitry + Drones
Creative Code: Art, Music & Game Design
Team Robotics & Programming
Ages 10-12:
Game Design + Augmented Reality (AR)
Raspberry Pi & Python
ROBLOX: Code, Design & Publish Games
Team Robotics + Visual Programming
Mobile Apps + Augmented Reality (AR)
Micro:bit & Swift Programming
Build Your Own Take-Home Laptop (Waltham only)
Python 101
Ages 13-16:
Game Design (Waltham only)
VR Design Experience with Unity & Oculus Go (Cambridge only)
JavaScript & Mobile App Development
Robotics Engineering & Coding (ROBOTC)
Boston’s Museum of Science has resumed Free Film Fridays in March, thanks to MathWorks. All shows in the Mugar Omni Theater are free on Fridays,
March 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. Here’s a short video on the science that makes the Omnimax Dome theater — one of 60 in the world — so amazing. Tickets are first-come/first-served at the box office on the day of the show. Members may reserve up to five days ahead. Current shows are:
MIT’s SPARK offers students in Grades 7 and 8 a variety of short, interesting classes on the MIT campus over one weekend, March 16-17. The registration lottery is open now through 5PM on March 5, and until that deadline all course preferences will be treated equally in the lottery. After that, any remaining seats will be open first-come/first-served. Students may choose from over 200 courses and must register on their own. For a full schedule, rank your top 3 classes and star at least 10 classes per time block. A $40 fee covers two days of classes and lunch and lots of walk-in activities. Generous financial aid is available. For more information not covered here, email spark@mit.edu. Here are 88 STEM courses offered:
The Studio of Engaging Math will host a Math Marathon for students in Grades 2-6 on March 3, 10AM-noon at 320 Washington St, Ste 301, in Brighton. Teams of 1, 2, or 3 students will solve challenges appropriate to team grade groups (Grade 2, Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6) and win prizes. Teams can arrive together or be formed ad hoc, on-site. Registration costs $25 per student.