MA STEM Week 2022 - Preview & Pre-Register

MA STEM Week is coming up soon - the week of October 17-21, 2022.

I will share resources & strategies that you can use with your families to engage in STEM every day... but I wanted to be sure to share with you some of these awesome experiences that are available to you to sign up for! (See info below!)  These events and many more can be found at: https://www.massstemweek.org/

iRobot Virtual Tours

• Audience: Students K-12
• When: 10/17 at 1:00PM | Grades 6-12 and 10/19 at 9:00AM | Grades K-5
• Location: Virtual
• Info: Visit virtually with @iRobotEducation virtual tours exploring 30+ years of robotics history. To register for the event, click here: https://experience.irobot.com/irobot-education-virtual-museum-tours-ma-stem-week Email stem@iRobot.com for other dates.

Educator Workshop: Exploring Enzymes

• Audience: Educators
• When: Wed, October 19, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
• Location: Virtual
• Info: This is part of the Training Workshops series through MassBioEd and is free of charge and open to all New England educators. Training is relevant to educators teaching grades 6-12. Participants examine the effect of catalase concentration on the rate of hydrogen peroxide breakdown. By using uniform slices of potato, participants can get quantifiable results. After testing the positive and negative controls, participants test the effect of several variables on the rate of an enzyme (catalase) reactions, analyze, graph, and compare their results. To register for this event visit: https://www.massbioed.org/event/enzymes/  *Note: this workshop is remote and takes place on Zoom

Boston Regional Family STEM Night

• Audience: ALL
• When: Different Events, requires registration: October 17-20
• Event Location: Various locations in Boston
• Info: This year for STEM Week, the STEM Department is sponsoring Regional Family STEM Nights October 18 - 20th from 5:30 - 7:30 (unless otherwise noted). At the schools, families & students will come and engage in 3 STEM activities led by community & district volunteers. Families are also welcome to attend a college & career information session. Refreshments will be served at each location.  Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMg49sBdNStRsUTU9tdWx8zXdvYcd62cclcXN5k3JIIWzSZw/viewform

STEM Week Virtual Film Festival

• Audience: ALL
• When: Event Timing: Oct 20th - 23rd Deadline to register: Midnight Wednesday 10/19.
• Event Location: Virtual!
• Info: Cape Cod Regional STEM Network is pleased to offer --for FREE--  acclaimed documentary films that explore current issues in STEM. Stream any or all of the documentaries between 7am Thursday to 7am Sunday.  Pre-register by Wednesday at midnight to receive the streaming links over email: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet7YtVuFfrYxInRnPTYFxKXB92PddH_euVXnUzkWTdV2ecSg/viewform

Trivia: Have you no game? With Special Guest Ultragenyx

• Audience: Teens
• When: Thu, October 20, 4pm – 6pm
• Event Location: Boston Public Library - Central Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, USA (map)
• Info:Ultragenyx, a company that specializes in treating rare genetic diseases, will be hosting a trivia night for teens at the Boston Public Library Central Branch. More information here: https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/62ffa8b99bf32028008affa3

The Ocean's Natural Way to Stop Climate Change with Dr. Jess Adkins

• Audience: ALL
• When: Oct 20, 2022 6:30PM
• Event Location: New England Aquarium Simons Theatre, Central Warf, Boston - and via livestream
• Info: The New England Aquarium Lecture Series and the Lorenz Center of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, present: The John H. Carlson Lecture featuring Professor Jess Adkins(Caltech). With the burning of fossil fuels, the human race is conducting an experiment of unprecedented magnitude—carbon dioxide (CO2) is warming the planet and we are not sure how this will turn out. Even as we move to electrify the economy and leave fossil fuels behind, we must find ways to remove CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere to avoid the worst outcomes of climate change. Reducing CO2emissions alone is no longer enough. In this talk, Dr. Adkins—a chemical oceanographer who studies the history of the Earth’s climate—will share how a project that started with the basic science question of ‘How quickly do corals dissolve when the ocean acidifies?’ turned into a possible way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale. This event is free and open to the public. Students and families welcome. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with exhibits from MIT students and climate scientists in the Simons Theatre lobby. PLEASE REGISTERFOR THIS EVENT 

Cool Science Artwork Competition

• Audience: Students K-12
• When: Entries due January 13, 2023
• Info: Cool Science is a free and public art competition held each fall for all K-12 artists.  Cool Science is a collaboration between the UMass Lowell, UMass Boston, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, University of Kansas, and Kansas City Art Institute.  In 2019, Cool Science received a National Science Foundation grant that helped it expand the project beyond Massachusetts to Kansas, Missouri, and Southern New Hampshire.  Challenge Questions: This year, we are asking young artists to answer one of the following challenge questions with a visual work of art: (1) How might your experience with extreme temperatures be different from kids in other places around the world? (2) Draw someone who is getting ready for flooding where you live. (3) Draw a public transportation system (like buses & trains) that keeps working in a severe storm. For further information about the contest, please visit: https://www.coolscience.net/artwork-guidelines-rules