The STEM Center recently started a new program to help SIUE faculty engage area learners in their research happening right on campus. This year our Community Impact Fellows will be teaching environmental science to area high school students, holding a teacher workshop in mechatronics and robotics for area high school teachers, and will be working…
Author: Carol Colaninno-Meeks
STEM Center Holiday Hours
The STEM Resource Center will close at 12:00 pm, December 21, and will reopen January 2, at 9:30 am. Please contact us at stemcenter@siue.edu or 618-650-3065 if you have any questions about our hours of operation. All of us at the STEM Center wish everyone a safe and happy holidays!
The STEM+C (Computational Thinking) Project is OFF and Running!
The STEM Center research team is OFF and running! Exploring Global Challenges: A STEM+C Curriculum for Minority Girls, supported by the National Science Foundation, launched last week. The program integrates computational thinking (CT) in an after-school, student-centered learning program in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The program’s goal is to strengthen minority girls’ learning…
Celebrate the Turkey!
For Thanksgiving, Americans throughout the country will gather together, many of them dining on turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Turkeys are native to the eastern and southwestern regions of the United States and northern and central Mexico. For millennia, people in these parts of the continent ate turkey meat, harvested their eggs, and collected their feathers. Archaeological…
America Recycles Day!
Every year, November 15th is a day that Americans are encouraged to make a commitment to recycle. The Keep America Beautiful campaign encourages people to take action by making a pledge to positively contribute to our country’s recycling efforts. There are opportunities to attend area events, encourage others to recycle, or to refocus your own…