Author: Carol Colaninno-Meeks

This week’s item of the week is cubelets! Cubelets are a fast, easy, and hands-on way to introduce students to programming. Each block has a specific function, and by putting the blocks together, you can create a fully functional robot. By choosing different blocks and combining them in different orders, you alter the robot and…

Monday was International Day of Women and Girls in Science! To celebrate, the STEM Center would like to highlight a couple amazing scientists who just happen to also be women. Marie Curie was a famous physicist and chemist who discovered radioactivity. This work won her a Nobel Prize in 1903: the first Noble Prize awarded…

The Botball Tournament is just around the corner! This weekend, the STEM Center hosted teams from the Greater St. Louis region for a Botball workshop. Students built their bots, programmed their bots, and tested out their programming. The Greater St. Louis Botball tournament will be held Saturday, April 13th. Follow this link for more information about…

The STEM Center has a ton of great resources to help you teach STEM and we are adding more items to our Resource Center. This week, we are featuring one of our new items: Write On Globes! You can write on these globes with a dry erase maker, which will easily wipe off with a…

SIUE faculty, are you thinking about writing a grant proposal anytime soon? The STEM Center, in partnership with the Center for Faculty Development and Innovation will present some fundamental strategies you can use to pursue external grant funding. Presented by STEM Center director, Dr. Sharon Locke, the workshops will include tips for constructing proposals, as…