Last week, the STEM Center’s 2018 REU students presented their summer research at the Mississippi River Research Consortium. Student presentation topics focused on examining long-term archaeological and ecological data sets to explore patterns in these data sets that might be consistent with expectations of anthropogenic influences on fish communities in the Upper Mississippi River. Students…
Author: Carol Colaninno-Meeks
STEM Center Item of the Week!
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…
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
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…
Ready for Botball?
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…
STEM Center Item of the Week!
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…