To All Interested High School Students, On Friday, December 6th, 2024, Northeastern University will once again sponsor Building Bridges, a day dedicated to students considering a career in engineering. This event will be in-person and at Northeastern! Building Bridges provides an opportunity for you to learn what engineering in college is all about. Choose from ..read more

The Young Scholars Program is officially more than halfway through! Last week, the scholars continued working in their labs and went on their first field trip! The scholars visited Amgen, a renowned biotech company in Cambridge, MA, on Thursday for their first field trip. Marybeth Rockett, a YSP alumna, graciously hosted the group at Amgen. The students were divided into two groups and guided by staff members through various sections of the research facility. They had the chance to observe different laboratory equipment and engage with researchers, all while gaining insights into the research ..read more

The second week of the Young Scholars Program (YSP) has come to an end! This week, the scholars focused on their lab work and experienced their first lab visits with the program coordinators.  In addition to day-to-day work, the students also engaged in a series of various presentations throughout the week. The coordinators delivered an informative presentation on creating resumes and setting up LinkedIn accounts. The cohort then created their own LinkedIn accounts, connected with their peers, and read through sample resumes to help build their own. Professor Patricia Mabrouk deliver ..read more

Interested in learning more about what we do at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education?  Our mission statement is to seek to build and support a community of educators, researchers, and students, with the collective goal of strengthening the K-20 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educational ecosystem. Take a look at the Summer 2024 edition of The Brief: Engineering for a Global Impact at Northeastern University — K-20 STEM Educational Ecosystem. Within, you will find many compelling artic ..read more

Today concludes the first week of this year’s Young Scholars Program; the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education is delighted to welcome our 2024 cohort of scholars to campus!  The Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a free program that aims to provide rising high school seniors with the opportunity to enrich their educations and future careers through meaningful hands-on research and projects hosted by Northeastern University.  Our twenty-seven scholars spent this past week adjusting to a busy schedule, participating in team-oriented activities, and explorin ..read more

The Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education is pleased to announce that last week we officially welcomed our 2024 cohort of REU-PATHWAYS students to campus! This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program (NSF #2150417, P.I. Ibrahim Zeid, Co-P.I. Claire Duggan) provides pathways for local community college students to enrich their education and careers by becoming meaningfully involved in research projects hosted at Northeastern University. This cohort of thirteen students represent eight unique institutions: Bunker Hill Community College (3), Framin ..read more

Today concludes the first week of this year’s Young Scholars Program; the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education is delighted to welcome our 2024 cohort of scholars to campus!  The Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a free program that aims to provide rising high school seniors with the opportunity to enrich their educations and future careers through meaningful hands-on research and projects hosted by Northeastern University.  Our twenty-seven scholars spent this past week adjusting to a busy schedule, participating in team-oriented activities, and explorin ..read more

Northeastern’s Center for STEM Education Giving Day!Northeastern University is hosting its annual Giving Day today! This is an amazing opportunity to support the Center for STEM Education and help us continue providing nearby communities with fun and exciting STEM activities to encourage a new generation of STEM thinkers. Every year the Center for STEM Education hosts a variety of programs for students to get involved. Learn more about these programs below (or reading our blog posts about events)! STEM Field Trip SeriesThe Center for STEM Education offers 4th to 8th grade students an opportun ..read more

Last Friday, on March 22nd, students and teachers at Mildred Ave K-8 School visited Northeastern University for the first time. About 50 eighth grade students split up into three classrooms to learn all about Catapults, Reverse Egg Drops and Earthquakes. In the Catapults section, students learned about projectile motion and accuracy and precision. They then were provided popsicle sticks, a rubber band and a lot of duct tape to construct their own catapult. Each team had a chance to test their catapult by launching skittles at a target and scoring points based on how accurate their catapults we ..read more

The Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. 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. We began the week by introducing the students to the Engineering Design Process. This sets the foundation for the rest of the week as students learn what it means to be an engineer and how they are engineers! As engineers, they then learned about the United Nations Sustainable Dev ..read more