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.
Campus Girl Scouts: Explore potato batteries and computer science through binary bracelet making
WPI Exhibitors and STEM Activities:
- American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter and Associated General Contractors: Build LEGO bridges to withstand a load and explore the elements of making concrete using Quikrete
- Association for Women in Mathematics / Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Club and Prof. Andrea Arnold: DNA Bracelets: Mathematics + Biology
- Campus Girl Scouts: Explore potato batteries and computer science through binary bracelet making
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Chemistry & Biochemistry (Prof. Ceren Yilmaz Akkaya & Prof. Raúl Orduna Picon) and Undergraduate Students: Kitchen Chemistry, Acid-Base Magic
- Engineering Ambassadors: Ozobots and slime
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Inspiring and Developing Educators Association (IDEA) Club: Exploring the Fossil Record
- Learning Sciences and Technology Lab & Prof. Erin Ottmar: Here to There and Graspable Math
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National Society of Black Engineers: Imagination to Creation
- Prof. Elizabeth Stewart and the Stewart Lab Team, and Christina Baily-Hytholt and the Baily-Hytholt Lab Team: Habitat builder: A Bacteria-Growing Game to Learn Where Germs Like to Live!
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STEM Education Center: Explore with Event Passports
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Undergrad student Wilson Gramer: Coding with Wipple
Engineering Ambassadors: Ozobots and slime |
Learning Sciences and Technology Lab & Prof. Erin Ottmar: Here to There and Graspable Math |
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