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Spring STEM & Career Programs Announced - Register Today!
Join Us - PreK-16 Educators - Business - Community
Partnerships
Advancing STEM Education along with explorations of STEM & Career Pathways are the themes of the SE MA STEM Network's spring 2018 initiatives. Exhibitors, speakers, panelists, and hands-on activities will highlight effective practices and programs that focus on the successful preparation of PK-16 students for the modern workplace beginning in early childhood.
The spring initiatives include: Partnerships Advancing STEM Education Meeting, Wednesday, February 28, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Sensata Technologies, Attleboro
Participating exhibitors representing business, workforce, education, and community organizations will share information pertaining to collaborative partnerships, project-based learning, programs, activities, resources, and ideas. A moderated panel focused on
Developing & Maintaining
Business and Education Partnerships
will include speakers from all STEM stakeholder sectors in an interactive discussion about effective practices. Click
here
to register for this meeting.
STEM & Career Pathways Seminar
, Wednesday, March 7, 4:00-6:30 p.m., Weymouth High School
Workshop topics include Work-Based Learning - Career Cubs to Capstone Projects; Community-Based Engineering; and Effective Practices in Digital and STEM Literacy.* Click
here
to register for this seminar.
STEM & Career Pathways Seminar
, Monday, April 9, 4:00-6:30 p.m., Sensata Technologies, Attleboro
Workshop topics include
Business-Educator-Community Partnerships,
Increasing & Maintaining Interest of Under-represented Populations in STEM, and
STEM Concepts in the Classroom & the Workplace
.* Click
here
to register for this seminar.
STEM & Career Pathways Seminar
, Thursday, April 26, 4:00-6:30 p.m., AccuRounds, Avon
Workshop topics include
Work-Based Learning for Educators & Students
and
Engineering - Specs to Product Production
.* Click
here
to register for this seminar.
STEM & Career Pathways Seminar
, Thursday, May 10, 4:00-6:30 p.m., Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School, Rochester
Workshop topics include
Coding - Plugged & Unplugged Computing
and State & C
ommunity Initiatives
.* Click
here
to register for this seminar.
* A featured speaker and exhibitors will complement seminar workshops at each site.
Partnerships Advancing STEM Education Meeting
, Thursday, May 17, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Bristol Community College, Fall River
Participating exhibitors representing business, workforce, education, and community organizations will share collaborative partnerships, programs, activities, resources, and ideas. A moderated panel focused on
Preparing for the Modern Workplace - A
cademic & Workforce Training
will include speakers from all STEM stakeholder sectors in an interactive discussion about effective practices. Click
here
to register for this meeting.
For additional information contact Katherine Honey, SE MA Network Coordinator.
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Advisory Board Member Paula Martel Honored with Easton Award
Paula Martel, SE MA STEM Network Advisory Board Member, is receiving the 2017 Outstanding Business Citizen Award for her support of the Easton Community, her volunteerism, and her leadership. The award will be presented by the Easton Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, January 25, 2018.
Paula, HR
m
anager
at
North Easton Machine, works with community members on the Easton STEAM Education Team to develop and implement programs for preK-12 students and their families. As a SE MA STEM Network Advisory board member, she works to advance STEM education to ensure students are prepared to be successful in the 21st Century workplace. Speaking at regional and state-wide STEM events, Paula highlights the collaboration of Easton's community members and the value of businesses partnering with educators to advance STEM education.
Presently, Paula is collaborating with the Network to plan for the 2018 SE MA STEM Network event series. Goals include increasing the number of businesses that partner with educators to advance STEM education. Join Paula at one such event on March 7, 2018, at Weymouth High School, 4-6:30PM. She will be speaking about the value of business/educator partnerships and community STEM teams. The event is free and open to the public. Click
here to register.
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Local Students Inspire Interest in Computer Science with Hour of Code 
During
Computer Science Education week, December 4-10, senior and sophomore computer science students from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School (RVTHS) and their teacher Ryan Robidoux ran Hour of Code events at three local middle schools. This global initiative promotes computer science, which is the design and creation of computational systems to solve problems. Click here to learn more about Hour of Code.
Middle school students at the Ford Middle School in Acushnet, the Freetown-Lakeville Middle School, and Old Rochester Regional Junior High School in Mattapoisett participated in coding challenges using Chromebooks as well as "unplugged" activities. These unplugged activities involved students developing algorithmic solutions to have a human robot stacking cups in various patterns.
Join Hour of Code participants on
May 10, 2018, from 4-6:30PM at Old Colony RVTHS at the STEM & Career Seminar and learn how to implement computer science activities in your community and schools. The event is free and open to the public. Click
here to register.
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Cardboard Challenge Provides
 Real-World Experiences
Exciting, innovative, and creative were some of the adjectives students, parents, and educators used to describe the Cardboard Challenge.
On November 3, 2017, sixth grade East Bridgewater students were engaged in planning and designing an arcade game using cardboard and recycled materials. The hands-on project was organized by educators Tori Cameron and Laura McPhee and offered students the opportunity to explore ideas and find ways to bring their ideas to fruition.
Parents were invited to attend and observed the resourcefulness of the students and how they worked as a team to create their project. The activity supports the goals of the East Bridgewater Public Schools to ensure students develop the skills and attitudes needed to be successful in school, college, and the 21st Century workplace.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CARDBOARD CHALLENGE locally and regionally: To learn more about how to organize a Cardboard Challenge, visit
https://cardboardchallenge.com
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NEWS from the State & Beyond
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Design a DNA Experiment for Space
Students in grades 7 - 12 are invited to design DNA experiments for space. Students will pioneer DNA research on the International Space Station to address real-life challenges of deep space exploration. Five finalist teams will receive mentoring from Harvard and MIT scientists and present at the 2018 International Space Station R&D Conference for a chance at the national award. Winners will attend Space Biology Camp and send their DNA experiment to space! The contest opens January 16 and submission deadline is April 20, 2018. Click here for additional information about how to launch your students' submission today.
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K-12 Marine Art Contest Seeks Entries
Exploring the Biological Diversity of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is the theme of the 2018 K-12 Marine Art Contest. Entries
will be judged in five categories -- High School (grades 9-12), Middle School (grades 5-8), Elementary School (grades K-4), Scientific Illustration (all grades) and Computer Graphics/Photography (all grades). The submission deadline is April 27, 2018.
Winning entries will be posted on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary website
, as well as used by the sanctuary and Massachusetts Marine Educators in their outreach programs.
Click
here
for additional information and to enter today.
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NEWS & EVENTS from the REGION
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Yearning to Sea the World?
Follow the Voyage with MMA
Massachusetts Maritime Academy's Follow the Voyage - Share The Experience program is a free, one-of-a-kind STEM adventure for K-12 students (as well as parents, friends & community members). It provides participants the opportunity to learn alongside the cadets - all without ever leaving their classrooms. This year close to 10,000 elementary, middle, and high school students from sixteen states and Bermuda will participate.
Thanks to cadet blogs, captain's logs, photographs, videos, and a unique hands-on curriculum, students can virtually travel with over six-hundred cadets aboard the TS Kennedy. This year's seven-week itinerary includes travel to Cartagena, Colombia, Bridgetown, Barbados, Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Tampa, Florida. Over the course of the voyage, cadets apply the "do" portion of the Academy's motto, Learn, Do, Learn. Click
here to begin following the voyage today.
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Students Invited to Solve a Crime this February at Winter Science Academy
Have you ever watched CSI and wondered what really happens to the evidence at a crime scene and how that evidence is used to solve the crime? If so, register for the Winter Science Academy Forensics Institute of Bridgewater. Designed for students in grades 6 - 8, this 4-day program will meet from 8:30 - 2:30 February 20 - 23. The program fee is $325 and scholarships are available. Click
here for additional information and to register.
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STEM4Girls is March 3 @UMD
Girls in grades 3 - 8 are invited for a day of hands-on discovery this March at UMASS Dartmouth. Organized by the Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education, the event will feature a keynote address by Dr. Angela Dorsey, an aerospace engineer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Registration is FREE and opens February 1. Click here to learn more.
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Other NEWS & EVENTS of INTEREST
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Marine Genomics & Career Workshop for Girls is February 20-21 at Northeastern
Girls in grades 10-12 are invited to a FREE two-day workshop to explore their interest in the ocean, science, and math while meeting scientists, educators, and new friends at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant. Click here for additional information and to apply today
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MITS Announces Spring Programs
The Museum Institute for Teaching Science is offering a four-session professional development series this spring. Diverse topics include climate change, molecular biology, farm-to-school connections, technology, and more. The series kicks off January 24 and continues February 14, March 28, and April 24. Click
here
for additional information and to register.
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Girls STEM Summit is April 8
Registration is now open for the Girls STEM Summit - Statewide 2018, hosted by Jr. Tech. This one-day summit is for girls in grades 8 - 12 who love science, technology, engineering, and math. The key goals of the event are to educate participants about various STEM career paths through hands-on breakouts, to encourage further STEM study in preparation for college, to inspire through interaction with female STEM professionals, to demonstrate the possibilities of a STEM career, and to close the gender gap in the STEM workforce. Click
here for additional information and to register.
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