Spring Into STEM with BoSTEM!
Preparing Youth to Succeed
United Way’s BoSTEM has been busy in the lab, thinking up new ways to provide career-inspiring STEAM opportunities to youth and families, and we’re excited to share some of our…
Meet Rapid 7: A BoSTEM Corporate Partner
Preparing Youth to Succeed
One of the most important aspects of our work at BoSTEM would not be possible without the work of our outstanding corporate partners. Today we want to highlight our partnership with Rapid 7,…
Special Series: Childcare Workforce Crisis Threatens an Equitable Recovery
Preparing Youth to Succeed, Supporting Young Children
The workforce that powers our economy is in crisis. Early education is essential infrastructure for a healthy economy. Yet over the past decade, a childcare crisis has arisen, with the…
Meet SySTEMic Flow: A BoSTEM Partner
Preparing Youth to Succeed
BoSTEM’s work to help provide meaningful STEAM experiences and resources to the students of Boston would not be possible without our support and collaboration from our fantastic partners. Today we…
The Road Ahead: How We’re Imagining Covid Recovery
Disaster Relief, Ending Homelessness, Moving Families Out of Poverty, Preparing Youth to Succeed, Supporting Young Children
While the pandemic has left no one untouched, it also put a spotlight on the alarming disparities that have always existed throughout our country. As we look toward recovery, this…
Teacher Externships show educators how to deal with the next generation of health and cybersecurity threats
Preparing Youth to Succeed
During our Teacher Externship, educators from Boston Public Schools across all levels of education listened to and engaged with employees from several STEM-based companies. The event itself was split into…
BoSTEM Partner Spotlight: Harvard Medical School MEDScience
Preparing Youth to Succeed
The purpose of BoSTEM’s Partner Spotlight series is to reveal the ways STEM Out-of-School Time (OST) programs throughout the city of Boston are rethinking education, and engaging with students. In this blog, we explore with HMS MEDscience their…
BoSTEM Coding Activity: For Black History Month Teach Code Poetry By Amanda Gorman
Preparing Youth to Succeed
“The Hill We Climb” is one of the most essential pieces of literature that students should learn in 2021 and can be put into any classroom. Also, Amanda Gorman, a…
An Interactive Computer Science Activity for Teens from BoSTEM
Preparing Youth to Succeed
This year on Ada Lovelace’s birthday and during Computer Science Education Week BoSTEM celebrated the first published female computer scientist to encourage more women to pursue a career in computer…
Giving Tuesday – Our Communities Can’t Wait
Disaster Relief, Ending Homelessness, Moving Families Out of Poverty, Preparing Youth to Succeed, Supporting Young Children
With more than 1 million people in our state facing food insecurity, a tidal wave of evictions on the horizon and unemployment skyrocketing across most industries, it’s up to our…