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Exploring Sound With NASA
Sharing space at home with the entire family can be challenging with all the noise. Our friends at NASA put together a design challenge that will help you talk to your kids about how to amplify and re …
Read MoreA Family Penny Boat Challenge by the makers of Family STEM Cards
Coming up with new ideas to keep your children engaged in learning can be difficult, but what if you had a toolbox of simple task cards to help move learning forward. This webinar gave a live demonstr …
Read MoreMarshmallow Catapults and Building a Rube Goldberg Machine
If you have a child that loves to design and build, then this lab is for you. Watch and explore the world of machines, both simple and complex. These activities are for children grades 3-8 (with sligh …
Read MoreCabin Fever Math!
Stuck at home? How about a little hands-on math that gets kids up and moving? Long-time Ecosystem partner Bedtime Math has retooled games from their popular Crazy 8s after school club to create a suit …
Read MoreCollege Admissions Process Post-Pandemic
COVID has held a microscope up to many of our systems and the college admissions process was not spared in the crisis. Many colleges and universities have already decided to temporarily or outright ca …
Read MoreStudents Sharing Solutions: A Webinar Dedicated to Uplifting Student Voices
With so much discussion around student learning outcomes, we thought it was the perfect time to invite students to share their thoughts and experiences. Join 4 students from across the U.S. who will s …
Read MoreMeeting Social Emotional Needs during COVID-19
COVID-19 has created an environment of fear, panic and isolation for much of the nation. So many of our families don’t have a stable home environment and for others being home is a source of danger an …
Read MorePairing Students’ Needs and Expertise With Those of Community Businesses and Organizations
Overview – This course offers the plan for how the NeoSTEM Ecosystem developed, designed, launched and iterated Wir’ED, a program that pays students for using their online skills to improve the digita …
Read MoreRace, America and COVID-19
Brookings’ Fellow, Dr. Rashawn Ray and STEM and Community Expert, Dr. Calvin Mackie, discuss race, equity and access during the global pandemic. COVID-19 has only magnified America’s historical, stru …
Read MoreNever Let a Crisis Go to Waste – A Discussion with Dr. Yong Zhao
Yong Zhao is a brilliant mind, pushing us to think more deeply about education. Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Zhao has published numerous blogs challenging us to use this time to reconsi …
Read MoreCONNECTING THE UNCONNECTED: Strategies for Ecosystems
Join Vinton Cerf -the man who co-invented the Internet and Google’s Chief Evangelist – and other leading connectivity experts in a practical discussion about how to get millions of students – living i …
Read MoreFREE ACCESS – Harvard’s LabXChange: Learn to Access This FREE Platform
LabXChange is a powerful platform allowing parents, teachers and students to customize science learning, taking it to new heights. The question: Given the pandemic, how can parents and teachers offer …
Read MoreSTEM Virtual Home Lab – workshops with practical tips, virtual experiments and concrete tools that families and teachers – even those with little time, few resources and no STEM or teaching experience – can use to engage children’s learning.