Celebrating STEM with Families and Community Partners

As part of Mass STEM Week 2025, the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester, Chase Corporation, and the Central MA STEM Network (CMSN) Ecosystem hosted an energetic Family STEM Night event. 

Coordinated by the STEM Education Center, the event featured 22 exhibitors, including 11 interactive stations led by WPI faculty and students. Exhibitors engaged attendees with hands-on STEM activities and demonstrated how STEM is a component of our everyday lives and careers.  Roughly 130 students and family members participated in the event. 

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Campus Girl Scouts: Explore potato batteries and computer science through binary bracelet making

Campus Girl Scouts: Explore potato batteries and computer science through binary bracelet making

WPI Exhibitors and STEM Activities:  

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Engineering Ambassadors: Ozobots and slime
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Learning Sciences and Technology Lab & Prof. Erin Ottmar: Here to There and Graspable Math

Learning Sciences and Technology Lab & Prof. Erin Ottmar: Here to There and Graspable Math

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Erin Ottmar
Erin Ottmar
Associate Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies
Erin Ottmar is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences at WPI. She received her BA in psychology and elementary education from the University of Richmond. After college, she spent several years teaching in Ecuador and Japan. In 2011, she received her PhD in Edu [...]
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Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
My research focuses on inverse problems and uncertainty quantification, incorporating elements of applied and computational mathematics, statistics, and scientific computing.  Broadly speaking, inverse problems involve finding the unknown causes of observed effects, and uncertain [...]
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Elizabeth Stewart
Elizabeth Stewart
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
My research utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to explore and exploit the physical properties of biological soft matter systems. Through investigating the biophysical properties of cells, multicellular communities and their microenvironments, my group seeks to reveal connecti [...]
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Christina Bailey-Hytholt
Christina Bailey-Hytholt
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
My research focus areas include biomaterials, drug and gene delivery, and diagnostics. In my research lab, we apply concepts including lipid and polymeric material assembly, molecular interaction studies, and engineering cellular microenvironments. We use these skills to address [...]
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Raul Orduna Picon
Raul Orduna Picon
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Raúl teaches undergraduate courses in general chemistry and organic chemistry. His teaching approach focuses on making students aware of their heterogeneity of thinking, leveraging students’ cultural practices, and promoting equity and social justice through chemistry teaching. R [...]
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Noemi Robertson
Noemi Robertson
Instructor/Director for Community Partnerships and Education Access, STEM Education Center
Noemi Robertson joined the STEM Education Center as the Instructor/Director of Community Partnerships & Education Access in October 2022.  Noemi is responsible for building and managing relationships in the local community to support teaching experiences for the WPI Teacher P [...]
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