The students pile into inflatable rafts at the rocky shore of Kelleys Island, one of a series of islands off the coast of Lake Erie in Ohio. Joining …
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Summer School Made Fun: 13 Clever Ways Programs Revived STEM for Kids Amid COVID
Searching for long-lost shipwrecks in Lake Erie. Learning to SCUBA dive at Space Center Houston. Shooting rockets in a Boston park. These are just a few of opportunities for hands-on science students had this summer — a welcome change after year of disrupted learning and restrictive COVID policies. The 74 team fanned out across the country to see America’s youngest scientists in action — and found stories of curiosity, resilience and inclusion.
For 60 seconds, 19 middle and early high school students remained relatively silent apart from the crinkling of popsicle wrappers. They awaited the …
Gabrielle Maximos doesn’t want to be an astronaut; she wants to be an obstetrician. But that doesn’t mean she’s any less excited to be steering an …
More than 65 Boston Public School middle schoolers returned to classrooms this week with a reignited passion for STEM, having just finished a summer …
“It’s going to be a big explosion, OK buddy?” instructor Kyle McCorvey says, handing Isaiah Palmore, 4, a cup of baking soda. “Uh oh,” Isaiah’s …
Sticky problems abound in education these days, but one recent afternoon as teacher Nathan Finley walked students through the latest level of a new, …
For Dr. Nevada Winrow, swimming has always been second nature. She was playing in the water by the time she was 8 months old, and her grandfather, a …
When 12-year-old Katie Foti showed up for her first day of Girls Make Games camp this summer, she thought she knew what creating a video game was all …
After 18 grueling months of closures and pandemic protocols, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas had begun to see signs of visitors …
This time is different. For many high earners, those at the top of the K, COVID’s roiling effect on the economy was a blip. They may be working …
Summer is a time for students to explore personal interests, and for an expected 100,000 students, free STEM bootcamps will provide a chance to …
The National Inventors Hall of Fame’s Camp Invention program has gotten pretty, well, inventive with the way it delivers content during the pandemic. …
The national nonprofit Society for Science has awarded 38 organizations a portion of $165,000 in funding as part of the group’s latest STEM Action …
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