Over the years, the SIUE STEM Center (and our former organization) developed a number of K-12 science curriculum series. This semester, we’ve been working to update our older curricula and to make them available on our website. We have successfully updated and posted two of our M.A.S.H. Kit curricula: the Five Senses and Get A…
Year: 2018
Planetarium Contest!
The STEM Center is having an essay contest and you could win a free planetarium program in our new StarLab! You can find details on our contest page but start thinking now about your answer to our question Should Pluto be reconsidered as a planet? Ever since 2006 when the international community decided to put Pluto in…
Computer Science Education Week
This week is Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)! Originally designated by the US House of Representatives in 2009, each year students, teachers, researchers, and lifelong learners plan events to introduce, learn, and talk about computer science education. Computer science is the study of how computers are built and operate, how they can solve problems and compute,…
The STEM Center Community Impact Fellowship
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…
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!