As part of Mass STEM Week 2024, the Worcester Boys & Girls Club and the Central MA STEM Network (CMSN) Ecosystem hosted a Family STEM Night Event with 24 exhibitors, including 12 stations by WPI Faculty and students. The STEM Education Center coordinated the event. Exhibitors offered hands-on STEM activities, demonstrated how STEM is part of the daily lives of families, and career information in STEM for all ages. Roughly 150 students and families participated.
Professor Ceren Yilmaz Akkaya & Professor Raúl Orduna Picon engage students with “See the Change: CO2’s Effects on Our Planet.”
WPI exhibitors and STEM activities:
- Chemistry & Biochemistry (Professor Ceren Yilmaz Akkaya & Professor Raúl Orduña Picón), See the Change: CO2’s Effects on Our Planet
- Engineering Ambassadors, Slime Making
- Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES, led by Prof. Karen Troy), Leap into Biomechanics
- Inspiring and Developing Educators Association (IDEA) Club, Uncovering Earth's Fossil Record
- Interactive Game Developers Association (IGDA) club, Student-created games
- Mass Academy of Math & Science, Make Your Own Spool Racer
- stemmies (Mass Academy students), Tackling Global Problems with STEM & Service
- Prof. Elizabeth Stewart and lab group: Habitat builder: a bacteria growing game to learn where germs like to live!
- Robotics Engineering, Legged Robots - Meet our robot dog.
- Robotics Engineering, What are Soft Robotics, and when do we use them?
- Undergrad student Wilson Gramer, Coding with Wipple
Prof. Elizabeth Stewart and lab group: Habitat builder: a bacteria growing game to learn where germs like to live!
Mass Academy of Math & Science students engage students with "Make Your Own Spool Racer."
Inspiring and Developing Educators Association (IDEA) Club engages students by "Uncovering Earth's Fossil Record."