All About STEM

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Institution of Civil Engineers and Springpod have partnered up to provide you with a fantastic programme that’ll show you what’s out there within the vast and varied world of civil engineering and will point you in the right direction to what’s right for you.

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Career in STEM

MARCH 27, 2024

In this third blog post in our series (also check out Top Science Internships and Top Technology Internships ), we will take a look at the top engineering internships in the USA. These programs are ideal for students who want to work in engineering fields such as civil engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering: 1.

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Northeastern University

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Center for STEM led two experiments with 50 x 4th graders: portable levees and an earthquake simulation lab. Afterwards, students visited Northeastern University’s Earthquake lab to learn about how civil engineers navigate around natural disasters when designing safe buildings.

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Career in STEM

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As the Owner of a STEM education company, I frequently get asked for my recommendations for the best STEM gifts for kids. Welcome to the third annual Best STEM Gifts for 2022! If you missed previous years, check out 2020 and 2021 as well, there’s tons of cool STEM gifts there too! Here are the Best STEM Gifts of 2022: 1.

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Career in STEM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As stated by numerous STEM experts (including Career In STEM’s own Ashley Pereira!), STEM helps kids and students develop vital design thinking and problem-solving skills. We at Career In STEM want to show you how various STEM careers can help you sharpen the skills you’ll soon be needing! Creativity.

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Newton STEM

JANUARY 1, 2023

Future City is a four-month civil-engineering program for middle-school students, culminating in an annual design competition in January. The program seeks professional engineers (and others with relevant technical backgrounds) to volunteer as judges to evaluate the student teams’ work.

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Career in STEM

JUNE 2, 2022

Looking for some fun summer STEM activities? Here are some of my favorite ideas to get active, engaged, and exploring in STEM all summer long: Museums and Libraries. Here are some fun engineering activities to help you get started! Online Summer STEM Programs. Top Five Summer STEM Ideas For Kids and Families. .

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 4, 2023

STEM vs. STEAM STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Should the arts be included in STEM education? First, a bit of background on STEM education. The Fifth Element: Why include Art with STEM Education?

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Newton STEM

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Future City is a four-month civil-engineering program for middle-school students, culminating in an annual design competition in January. The program seeks professional engineers (and others with relevant technical backgrounds) to volunteer as judges to evaluate the student teams’ work.

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Futurum

AUGUST 30, 2022

Living in a material world: the importance of materials science and engineering. Published: TALK LIKE A MATERIALS SCIENTIST AND ENGINEER. WHAT IS MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING? Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is the field that deals with the science of making, characterising and testing all types of materials. “MSE

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PCS Edventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Engineering is one of the cornerstones of STEM and STEAM education and those working within this field understand how diverse and complex this discipline can be. Intertwined with Science, Technology, Arts and Mathematics engineers utilize their understanding of each discipline to design and build works of art.

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STEM Sport

APRIL 4, 2023

What is a STEM Career? STEM careers are roles that utilize science, technology, engineering, and/or math to complete their daily tasks. Many STEM careers can also be considered STEAM careers because of the need for creative thinking. This is a great example of a STEAM career that uses STEM and arts to achieve daily tasks.

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Bright and Smart

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Teamwork Our favorite week of the year is here, Engineers Week ! This week is important because it: -Raises public awareness about the contributions of engineers. This week is important because it: -Raises public awareness about the contributions of engineers.

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Futurum

MAY 31, 2022

New engineering efforts at the Iowa State and Kansas State Universities are creating buildings adept at withstanding the effects of wind – not just through designing stronger structural systems, but by enabling the buildings to change their shape to adapt to changing wind conditions. ENGINEERING – AN OVERVIEW. THE TROUBLE WITH WIND.

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Vivify Stem

JULY 7, 2022

Post by Julie Lyons July 7, 2022 Looking for an engaging STEM activity that builds empathy? Read below for a Stage 2 STEM engineering activity that challenges students to learn about and design an interchangeable prosthetic leg. Using the engineering design process , teams of students design, create and test prosthetic legs.

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Northeastern University

MARCH 28, 2025

In the Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 academic year (Sep-Mar), the Center for STEM Education hosted a total of 15 field trips, with a total of ~725 students in grades 3-8. Each of these field trips featured an introduction to Engineering, 1-2 hands-on activities, and College 101 session and/or Campus Tour. Also see this blog post.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Inspirational women in STEM. In our latest issue of Futurum, we spoke to individuals and organisations working to increase the representation of women in STEM, both in education and in careers. In this blog post, we introduce more inspirational women working in STEM fields. Only 3% 4 of STEM industry CEOs are women.

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Northeastern University

MARCH 21, 2023

Northeastern University’s Center for STEM Education hosted this year Engineering Exploration week from Tuesday, February 21st to Friday, February 24th. On Tuesday, February 21st, we kicked off the program with and introduction to the engineering design process and chemical engineering.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

At least 95% percent of the things around you were created by an engineer, or an engineer played a role in its creation. Engineers and their skills are in high demand across many sectors, and that is why they are one of the most lucrative jobs. As a young child, it is important to explore STEM subjects. —— 2.

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Vivify Stem

JULY 14, 2022

Rate Your STEM Lesson: What Stage is Your STEM Challenge? Post by Michelle Bogden July 14, 2022 What is the focus in your STEM classroom? Or perhaps you spend most of the year on engineering design? Take our quiz to find out what stage of STEM your lessons are! Free STEM Checklist. Email Address.

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Scientix

JULY 22, 2022

In this Scientix blogpost, Derya Yukva, a preschool teacher in Turkey, presents the “Small Bridge Engineers” activity. Our activity is based on STEM’s 5E Model for Integrated STEM Instruction, in which problem-solving consists of five steps:1. The post Small Bridge Engineers appeared first on Scientix blog.

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Northeastern University

MARCH 16, 2022

For this 1 hour field trip, which had 100 students in five classes, we talked about engineering and solving problems – with a focus on civil engineering. NU students Gabby (Civil Engineering) and Zandria (Industrial Engineering) came out during their spring break to help run this field trip: thanks you two!

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PCS Edventures

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A geographic information system (GIS) is a valuable tool for a wide range of STEM careers, including environmental science, civil engineering and market analysis. The data produced by a GIS is so essential to other STEM industries that this field of study is in high demand. So, what is a GIS? Let’s explore!

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Smore Science

AUGUST 8, 2022

Today you are a civil engineer, and your teacher gave a STEM challenge to build a staircase. How to do the Build a Staircase STEM Challenge. The post Build a Staircase STEM Challenge appeared first on Smore Science. Now, what will happen if we increase the height of each stair by half a foot. Table of Contents.

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Northeastern University

MARCH 23, 2022

Yesterday, on March 22nd, the fifth graders (40 students) from the Chittick Elementary School had a virtual STEM field trip with us, with their teachers Tanya Haney and Courtney Brady. Today we learned all about engineering and the engineering design process (EDP) and taking a closer look at Mechanical and Civil Engineering.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 26, 2023

As an educator and STEM enthusiast, I’ve always been intrigued by the enigmatic ‘E’ in STEM. In this article, we’ll embark on a journey of decoding STEM and unraveling the mysteries behind that elusive ‘E.’ KEY TAKEAWAY What does the E in STEM stand for? What does it stand for?

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Bright and Smart

MAY 12, 2022

stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Teamwork World Engineering Day is March 4, 2022. Raises public awareness about the contributions of engineers. Spotlights the importance of STEM principles in everyday curriculum. Gets our learners excited about engineering. What does a Civil Engineer do?

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Northeastern University

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students learned about the engineering design process, then split up and alternated activities. In our Environmental Engineering-focused activity, students learned about pollution: how it happens and how we can deal with it. This school is a perennial school in our field trip series: this is their school’s ninth visit since 2012!

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Vivify Stem

JUNE 18, 2024

These are just some of the questions students explore in the Earthquake 5E STEM challenge. In this challenge, students learn about earthquakes and how engineers design structures to be earthquake-resistant. In a final engineering challenge, students use their knowledge to build and test their own designs. Why Earthquake STEM?

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Career in STEM

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’ve gone through the job market, you may have come across your fair share of STEM listings but aren’t exactly sure what it means. STEM is an acronym used to describe jobs that deal with science, technology, engineering, or math. What are STEM Majors? Mechanical engineering. Software engineering.

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Northeastern University

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Last Friday (February 11th) we had our first STEM field trip of the Winter/Spring semester. hour field trip was focused on engineering and the design process. Next, students participated in our What Is This Thing activity, a guessing game – to determine what kinds of things a mechanical engineer might design and why.

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STEM Education Shopping

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Why is STEM Important? million STEM jobs projected to go unfilled this year, such as Civil Engineers, Computer Programmers, Medical Scientists. Why We Keep Talking about STEM? . The post What is the Importance of STEM & Why we Keep Talking About it? appeared first on STEM Education Shoping.

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Northeastern University

MARCH 25, 2024

Duggan Center for STEM Education ran their 5th annual Engineering Exploration Week on Tuesday, February 20th to Friday, February 24th. During Engineering Exploration Week, we invited students for a week long program to learn exciting STEM concepts and apply them to fun projects.

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Northeastern University

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Next, students did a hands-on engineering build activity, in which students roleplayed civil engineers designing stilted houses to resist coastal floods / storm surge: i.e. building paper houses at least six inches tall that supported as much weight (i.e. the house on stilts) as possible.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 26, 2023

As a STEM advocate and researcher, I am excited to present a comprehensive overview of the fields included in STEM. million jobs in the United States alone are attributed to STEM occupations? Get ready to explore the vast landscapes of knowledge that make up the ever-evolving field of STEM. Did you know that over 6.2

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CSTEM

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It is projected that there will be one million STEM jobs by the end of the decade. This new data shows that STEM careers are showing as much potential as when I founded C-STEM more than two decades ago. Over the years, it’s been an honor to see our C-STEM alumni build STEM careers and pay it forward to the next generation.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s no secret that the exposure of students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can positively impact the future of the world and their futures. —– What Is STEM? As seen with most things, the STEM field existed long before it had a name. The key term regarding STEM is integration.

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