MIT’s Edgerton Center will host the Edgerton Teams Showcase on April 9, 4PM-5PM, in Lobby 13 (77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge), where 16 student teams will present their current projects. The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team will unveil its latest creation, Gemini, and the MIT Motorsports Team will unveil its MY2024 race car. For more information, email Peggy at peysenba@mit.edu. Participating teams: Arcturus (Roboboat), AssistiveTechnology Club, ChemE Cube, Combat RoboticsClub, Design Build Fly, Electric Vehicle Team, First NationsLaunch,  MIT Radio Society WIMX, MITERS, Motorsports,&nbs ..read more

The Acton-Boxborough Math Competition (ABMC) will take place on April 6, 8AM-2PM, at R.J. Grey Junior High School (16 Charter Road, Acton). It’s a Mathcounts-style competition open to students in Grades K-8, competing individually or in teams of 2-4. Register online  as an individual competitor, a pre-registered team, or an individual to be randomly assigned to a team. The cost is $20 if registered online or $25 if registered in-person at the competition. Prizes are awarded to high-scoring individuals and teams. ABMC will also host a free online contest with the same format as the on-site ..read more

Acera School (5 Lowell Ave, Winchester) will host its Math Festival on Sunday, April 7, 10AM to 12PM for students in Grades K-12. It’s a free event of math and logic-themed games designed to inspire creative reasoning and collaborative problem-solving. Parents/guardians with their kids are all welcome — and invited to bring friends. Register online. Math challenges include: Algebra on Squares, Chocolate Fix, Game of Amazons, Hexahexaflexagons, Jumping Frogs, Jumping Julia, Mosaics, Rook’s Move, Skyscrapers, and Tower of Hanoi ..read more

HMSC will host the Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard on April 7, 1PM-4PM, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology (11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge) and Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge ..read more

From Newton North HS Senior Davis R: This weekend, the LigerBots, Newton’s dual-high-school robotics team, finished strongly at Bridgewater State University for their first New England District Qualifier. After two fierce days of competition and overcoming a series of technical challenges, the team placed as a finalist out of 36 teams. In addition, the LigerBots won the Engineering Inspiration Award. This is only the beginning. Tomorrow, the LigerBots will be back in the shop, taking lessons from the competition to make strategic improvements. This will prepare them for the next competition, t ..read more

Blue Hill Observatory will offer a free webinar, Solar Eclipse 2024, on March 12 at 6:30PM, about the solar eclipse coming on April 8. The webinar features host Tim Kelley and climate scientist Dr. Tamara Ledley. The Blue Hill Observatory will also host an in-person Eclipse Viewing Event on April 8 at 2PM. (donation $30, or $20 for students and seniors). Register here for either or both events ..read more

Registration is open for Summer Science Weeks at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (26 Oxford Street, Cambridge): July 15-19: Museum Makers (entering Grades 1-3) July 15-19: The Ins and Outs of Skeletons (entering Grades 4-6) July 22-26: Blue Planet: Life at Sea (entering Grades 3-5) July 22-26: Exploring Life on a Page (entering Grades 6-8) July 29-August 2: Spineless Wonders (entering Grades 1-3) July 29-August 2: Grab Your Sketchbook (entering Grades 4-6) August 5-9: Amazing Animals (entering Grades 1-3) August 5-9: Invertebrate Investigators (entering Grades 4-6) August 12-16: Un ..read more

Run by MIT undergraduate and graduate students, SPARK offers students in Grades 7-10 a variety of short, interesting classes on the MIT campus over one weekend, March 16-17 (10AM-6PM on Saturday, 9AM-6PM on Sunday). The registration lottery is open now through 11:59PM on March 5, and until that deadline all course preferences will be treated equally in the lottery. After that, any remaining seats will be open first-come/first-served. Students may choose from about 100 courses and must register on their own. To fill your schedule, rank your top 3 classes and star at least 10 clas ..read more

Applications are open until April 4 for young women in Grades 10-11 to apply for a 2024 O-STEAM Fellowship, sponsored by WHOI Sea Grant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Sea Education Association. This fellowship will run August 11-17 and aims to promote diversity and expose young women to a variety of careers in STEAM. Register for the online Info Session on March 5 at 6PM. O-STEAM student fellows will work with a predominantly female team of researchers to explore a variety of STEAM-related activities. The team will explore challenges that are unique to women in science. In see ..read more

Researchers from MIT, Boston University, and the University of Delaware will host an outreach event on Microrobotics and Synthetic Biology for middle and high school students , in two sessions on March 9. The program is primarily aimed to support and encourage female and underrepresented minority students to explore STEM. Students will learn how concepts of robotics can foster the development of new biological systems and applications. Prof. Sambeeta Das will introduce the students to microrobotics, and then Dr. Rashmi Mohanty will discuss the importance of microrobotics in biological applicat ..read more