The weather may be cooling down, but STEM @ Home is not! This week, students can learn about heat and energy through a variety of activities, video content, and more! The applications of heat and energy are vast; this week’s activities range from sound waves to the growth and development of life to the ways…
Author: Clark Sturdevant
SIUE STEM Center Partners with Beet Box to Provide STEM Kits
Nothing goes better with fresh veggies than a side of ranch and learning! The SIUE Stem Center teamed up with the Beet Box from Goshen Market Foundation to distribute STEM kits full of activities to help students explore the relationship among soil, food, and health and to explore citizen science. The STEM kits are provided…
Learning about Weather and Climate
Do you ever listen to the weather report, get ready for your day, and then find out that the weather you expected isn’t at all what you experience? Why is weather so hard to predict and how do scientists predict it? This week we’ll be learning all about weather patterns and learning to make our…
SIUE’s STEM Center Leads Successful Girl Scouts Virtual Summer Camp
Even with face to face summer camp an impossibility, the SIUE STEM Center, in collaboration with the Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois, offered summer activities to the girls from grades 1st through 8th. Twenty-five girls, via ZOOM, shared and discussed their math and science projects for one hour a day during a week in July.…
J. Ernest Wilkins Stem Like Me Story
In Chicago, 1923, J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was born to parents J. Earnest and Lucille B. Wilkins. Both of his parents were highly accomplished individuals in their own right. His father was an attorney who eventually became the first African American to serve in a sub-Cabinet position as assistant Secretary of Labor in the Eisenhower…