5 STEM Activities To Try At Home
Over the last few months, the BoSTEM team has hosted multiple Movie, Make + Meet events for students in collaboration with several of our partners. These events take place virtually…
Top 5 STEM Chats For Kids To Watch At Home
One of the most important aspects of our work at BoSTEM is encouraging students to pursue careers in STEM by introducing them to people working all across the various STEM…
Pushing the Right Buttons: Encouraging Students to be Future Robotocists with MassRobotics for National Robotics Week
By Alexa Rose, Maker Fellow Americorps Vista at United Way BoSTEM and Edited by Kyle Bray United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley’s BoSTEM initiative funds an innovative AP Computer…
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…
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…
The Future is Written in Code: How You Can Inspire Future Computer Science Innovators
Preparing Youth to Succeed
This year BoSTEM is overjoyed to announce our partnership with Digital Ready to offer students throughout the Boston area an innovative AP Computer Science course that emphasizes social justice in…
6 Highlights from Mass STEM Week 2020
Preparing Youth to Succeed
This STEM Week we allowed more students than ever to “See themselves in STEM”. Despite the pandemic, we persisted harnessing the T in STEM to provide a multitude of programs…
A Year of Uniting – Preparing Youth For Success
Preparing Youth to Succeed
At United Way, we envision a world where all young people — regardless of background or zip code — graduate ready to succeed in careers and life. To get there,…
At West End House, Joel Finds STEM Opportunities He Never Expected
Preparing Youth to Succeed
When Joel arrived in Boston from Guatemala at seven, he knew very little English. His parents knew he needed to learn the language if he was going to succeed, but…