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

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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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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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

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. Online Summer STEM Programs. Save yourself the hustle and bustle and check out our 100% online Career In STEM Explorer ! Go Outside!

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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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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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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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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. 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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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. Check out our full teacher and student STEM guide here. What on earth is making this sound?

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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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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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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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Futurum

MAY 31, 2022

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING – generally involves the design and construction of aeroplanes, jets, gliders, autogyros, helicopters and more, but the skills needed to do this can be applied to other areas. CIVIL ENGINEERING – the design and construction of infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, buildings, railways and utility networks.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students learned about the engineering design process, then split up and alternated activities. This school is a perennial school in our field trip series: this is their school’s ninth visit since 2012!

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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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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

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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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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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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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 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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Bright and Smart

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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. Spotlights the importance of STEM principles in everyday curriculum. Gets our learners excited about engineering. roller coasters, robots, and engines.

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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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Carly and Adam

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

You’ve created a plan for a successful STEM challenge , gathered your materials, and presented the challenge to your students. There are different ways to culminate a STEM challenge. This post will share some ideas for wrapping up a challenge, celebrating the STEM learning, and options for next steps. The challenge is over.

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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. Civil Engineer.

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Northeastern University

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The slides for the day introduced who the Center for STEM Education is and what we do, talking about broader impacts and the learning goals for STEM field trips. Students learned about the engineering design process, then split up and alternated activities. This week is Massachusetts STEM Week !

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 28, 2023

As an aspiring STEM teacher, I’ve often felt like a lone astronaut navigating the vast universe of education. These virtual learning experiences have become my guiding stars, providing me with invaluable knowledge and strategies to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math.

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Northeastern University

MARCH 31, 2022

After looking at the Engineering Design Process (after roleplaying how to design a better alarm – we came up with a bed that launches you out of it), students became civil engineers and designed and built paper towers to be as tall as possible.

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Northeastern University

JULY 5, 2022

In addition to their lab work, the students are participating in a variety of activities to supplement their STEM learning experience. In the mornings, students will attend hour-long homeroom sessions to learn about various t opics on engineering, research, college/professional preparation, poster presentations, and more.

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Northeastern University

JULY 5, 2022

In addition to their lab work, the students are participating in a variety of activities to supplement their STEM learning experience. In the mornings, students will attend hour-long homeroom sessions to learn about various t opics on engineering, research, college/professional preparation, poster presentations, and more.

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