Science Club for Girls seeks in-person Mentors

After School, Opportunities

Science Club for Girls is about to start its Fall programs and seeks to bring on additional Volunteer Mentors for SCFG’s in-person Science Clubs at Mother Caroline Academy (515 Blue Hill Avenue, Boston) on Thursdays, 2:30PM-4:30PM. Dates are October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, and December 1. Apply here to join SCFG’s group of over 100 Volunteer Mentors. For more information, email Cristina Ullmann at cullmann@scienceclubforgirls.org.

Grades 9-12: Register Now for Northeastern Splash!, In-Person, Nov. 12

Opportunities

Each fall and spring, NEPTUN (a Northeastern University student group) hosts Splash!, a free program for students in Grades 9-12 to take fun and informative mini-classes led by Northeastern undergraduate students. This year, Splash! will again be held in-person at Ryder Hall (11 Leon St, Boston) on the Northeastern campus, on November 12, 8:45AM-6:40PM. The $0 cost includes free pizza and a T-shirt. Registration is now open and is first-come/first-served and requires setting up a free student account. For more information, see the FAQs or contact nu.neptun@gmail.com. Among the 26 in-person Splash! courses this year are these STEM offerings:

  • Epigenetics: Why everything you know about genetics is wrong
  • I’m So Tired: Why You Feel Like You Never Get A Good Night of Sleep
  • Plant-on-Plant Violence
  • Glowing Plants? Yes, Glowing Plants.
  • Get Some Structure in Your Life: Modelling the Cytoskeleton
  • Exploring the Engineering Design Process with Rube Goldberg Machines
  • Playful Peep Science
  • [ACCESS_GRANTED]: 1N7R0 70 H4CK1NG
  • The Key to Unlocking Data: An Intro to Database Management
  • Can We Make You Enjoy Math?
  • Let there be Lights!
  • 👀😲👍 – Emoji: How They Work and Why They Break Everything

Cambridge Science Festival: Expanded Schedule and Venues, Oct. 3-9

Events

The Cambridge Science Festival has expanded its schedule, now October 3-9 across more venues in Cambridge. Scan and search the Festival Guide of events — 116 so far, with perhaps more to be added soon. All events are free and open to the public, but several have limited capacity and require advance reservations, via links in the Festival Guide.

The original schedule of events, all at the Kendall/MIT Open Space (292 Main Street), has a different theme each day:

  • October 6: Science + Climate — dedicated to all things environmental, renewable, and sustainable
  • October 7: Science + Food — the latest in edible chemistry, at a “farmer’s market of the future”
  • October 8: Science + Fashion — runway shows, exhibitions, discussion and interaction with designers, makers, engineers, brands, artisans, influencers and the public
  • October 9: Science + Carnival — a family-friendly, science-themed, Great American Carnival, noon-4PM featuring a Main Stage, Midway, Side Shows, Walk-abouts, with “competitions and challenges, interactive engineering and hands-on experiments, design workshops and demonstrations, from telescopes to microscopes, from celestial bodies to synthetic bodies, lasers, DNA, the brain, from marine biology to biological machines, from circuit-boards to circus-shows… and very many robots!”

Congressional App Challenge — Submissions Due Nov. 1

Opportunities

All Massachusetts members of Congress have joined other House colleagues in hosting a Congressional App Challenge in their Congressional Districts. Students in Grades 6-12 may register, as individuals or in teams of up to four, in the Congressional District in which they live or attend school. Newton is in District MA04 (Representative Jake Auchincloss), where so far five teams have registered. The competition is open to all eligible students regardless of coding experience (see CAC flyer and CAC rules).

Apps may be created in any language, on any platform, on any theme or purpose. They must be submitted by November 1 at 12PM. Submissions will be evaluated by local judges who work in academic, software, and entrepreneurial fields. The winning app from each participating Congressional District will be announced in December and will be highlighted online and in an exhibit in the Capitol.

Register by Oct. 1 for Transportation YOU Summit, Ages 8-18, Oct. 15

Events

WTS-Boston’s outreach group, Transportation YOU will host the 2022 Transportation YOU Boston Summit for all gender identities, with a focus on girls, on October 15, 10AM-3PM at Emmanuel College (400 Fenway, Boston). It will introduce students to transportation planning and engineering and feature hands-on activities workshops led by transportation professionals. It’s free, and lunch is included. Registration is required and will close on October 1 or when 100 have registered. For more information, contact Emily Buck at 508-823-2245 or transportationyouboston@gmail.com.

NCWIT ‘Aspirations in Computing’ Awards, Grades 9-12: Apply by Oct. 20

Opportunities

The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) recognizes high-school and college students, as well as educators, with annual awards. Applications are open now until October 20 for the Aspirations in Computing (AiC) awards for young women, genderqueer, or non-binary students in Grades 9-12 to recognize their computing-related achievements, interests, and aspirations. Applications for Aspirations in Computing Educator awards are open until December 1.

Massachusetts Girls STEM Summit, Oct. 23

Events

Jr. Tech will sponsor a Girls STEM Summit at Wentworth Institute of Technology (550 Huntington Ave, Boston) on October 23, 8AM-4PM.  It’s aimed at all persons who identify as female, non-binary, or other gender identity or expression in Grades 8-12 who love STEM and would like to learn about emerging STEM careers. Sponsors include Akamai Foundation, NationalGrid, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Eastern Bank, and SIM Boston. The cost is $70 and includes lunch. Register online for individuals or groups of students. For more information, email rachel@juniortech.org.