Tufts CEEO Spring Saturday Workshops, Pre-K to Grade 5

Events

Tufts University’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) offers these workshops on Saturdays in March and April:

Zervas School Receives STEM Grant

Resources

The family of Cynthia Zervas, wife Dr. Frank Zervas (principal of the former Beethoven Avenue School), has generously donated $5,000 to Zervas Elementary School to establish the Cynthia Zervas STEM Center at the school and purchase classroom kits for building students’ skills in STEM. The School Committee formally accepted this donation at its most recent meeting.

Beaver Works Summer Institute: STEM at MIT for HS Seniors

Summer

Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI) is a rigorous, world-class STEM program for rising high-school seniors offered by MIT and Lincoln Laboratory. It’s free and runs July 8 – August 4, and this year it will offer ten courses:

  • Autonomous RACECAR Grand Prix
  • Autonomous Air Vehicle Racing
  • Autonomous Cognitive Assistance (Cog*Works)
  • Hacking a 3D Printer
  • Medlytics
  • Embedded Security and Hardware Hacking
  • Build a Cubesat
  • Unmanned Air System–Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Remote Sensing for Crisis Response
  • Assistive Technology

There’s a multi-step process to qualify and apply. Students must first submit a nomination/reference from a STEM teacher or school administrator in order to receive an application for the free BWSI Online Education Program, which the student must complete in order to apply for the summer programs.

Sign Up by Feb. 14 for MIT’s Spring HSSP, Saturdays, Grades 7-12

Opportunities

MIT’s Spring HSSP is a six-week academic program for Grades 7-12, held at MIT on Saturdays, February 23 to April 6 (except March 16), 1PM-4PM.  All online registrations completed by February 14 will be considered equally in the course-assignment lottery, and registrations after that will be taken first-come/first-served until February 19.  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:

  • Programming Amazon Alexa with MIT App Inventor
  • Machine Learning with MIT App Inventor
  • Introduction To Python
  • Deep Learning from First Principles
  • Computer Graphics Programming
  • How to Build a Nuclear Bomb
  • Being Real about Bioengineering
  • A Lot of Meta-Mathematics
  • Algorithms that run the world!
  • The Science of Nutrition: A Microscopic to Macroscopic Exploration
  • Kitchen Chemistry
  • Soil Ecosystems from Micro to Global Scales
  • Next Generation Biology
  • From Neurons to Thoughts: An Introduction to the Human Mind and Brain
  • Quantum Mechanics, with Applications in Astrophysics and Computation
  • Sensational Neuroscience: How Your Brain Understands the World
  • 40 Orders of Magnitude: Selected Problems in Physics
  • The Chemistry in Our Lives
  • Thermodynamics and Applications
  • The Science of Recognizing Good Science
  • Introduction to Evolutionary Biology
  • Social Psychology and Game Theory
  • Economics and Psychology
  • Make Your Own Language
  • Happiness
  • Math and Science Lecture Series

Application Open for PROMYS: BU’s Summer Math Program for Young (Motivated) Scientists

Summer

Applications are now available for PROMYS, a six-week (June 30-August 10) residential summer program at Boston University for strongly motivated high-school students (ages 14-19) to explore in-depth the creative world of mathematics.  About 80 students are selected from a nationwide/worldwide pool based on online applications consisting of solutions to challenging problem sets, school transcripts, teacher recommendations, and short essays explaining their interest in the program.  Financial aid is available as necessary to ensure all who are selected may attend.  Applications are due April 1.  For more information, see the FAQs and then contact promys@bu.edu.

Einstein’s Workshop Summer Camp at Lasell College, Grades K-9

Summer

Einstein’s Workshop will offer a summer STEM camp in Newton for students entering Grades K-9 in the fall, with four weekly themes: Coding, Robotics, Making & Inventing, Game Learning. It will be held July 22 – August 16, 9AM-4PM (with 6PM extended-day option) at Lasell College’s STEM and Technology Center (1844 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton). Einstein’s Workshop designs each day with morning and afternoon classes interspersed with breaks, team-building activities, and Minecraft or free play each day. Two separate discounts: 5% for registering by February 28 and 5% when registering more than one child.

Register Now for Tufts CEEO Summer Programs, Grades K-8

Summer

Registration is open for summer Design and Engineering workshops, running 9AM-3PM at Tuft’s Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). Register ASAP, using the links below, as space is limited and will be assigned as paid registrations are received. Grade levels are as of Fall 2019.

ProjectCSGIRLS Competition for Middle School Girls

Opportunities

ProjectCSGIRLS is a non-profit run by undergraduate women aiming to close the gender gap in computer science by holding a national competition and regional workshops for girls in Grades 6-8. The 2019 ProjectCSGIRLS Competition is now open for individuals or teams of two to three middle-school girls to build projects to address a social problem or issue. Building can mean anything from physically putting together machine parts for a robot to writing code for a mobile app to prototyping a new prosthetic device. Register by March 1 and submit projects by April 15.

Broad Institute Lecture: The Next Phase of Big Genetics, Feb. 6

Events

The Broad Institute in Cambridge will offer a free lecture, The Next Phase of Big Genetics, open to the public, on February 6, 6:30-7:30PM. It’s part of the Institute’s Science for All Seasons series, which explores hot topics in genomics with leading experts from the Institute. Population geneticist Alicia Martin will provide a brief primer and explain how gaps in the diversity of data affect how researchers make use of it. Cardiologist Amit Khera will discuss how polygenic scoring can predict an individual’s likelihood of developing a given disease. Cancer biologist JT Neal will talk about the challenges of studying at massive scale the functional roles of genetic variations associated with disease, the genes and pathways they affect, and the cells they impact. Register here.