MIT K-12 STEM Education Alumni Network

Here's a compilation of resources from MIT for online education: https://fullsteam.mit.edu/

MIT Full STEAM Ahead – Sharing MIT STEAM Learning with the World

News from the MIT Edgerton Center K-12 MakerLab

Ideas & Events for K-12 Maker Educators - Feb 24, 2020 newsletter Maker learning and student behaviors - what's the connection? The results are in for Part 1 of our informal survey on teaching challenges in the classroom.  Now we ask:  Do the challenges from students' behaviors and attitudes change during hands-on learning activities? Please TAKE THE FOLOWUP S...

Exciting news! FIRST will be featured in a key storyline during next week’s episode of black-ish! Tune in to ABC on 2/25 at 9:30pm ET to see Jack join a FIRST robotics team.

Great new MIT Saturday program for middle school girls. See https://beaverworks.ll.mit.edu/CMS/bw/bwsi for more information.

Students Plan Cross-Country Bike Trip to Spread Science A group of eight Massachusetts Institute of Technology students is preparing for a 3,500-mile bike ride across America. The 75-day ride is part of the MIT Spokes program, aimed at spreading science to children...

The Edgerton Center Makerspace website has a new domain and updated resources! Visit http://k12maker.mit.edu to get resources for K12 teachers setting up Makerspaces, operating them safely, empowering their students, and promoting interest in STEM!

Lemelson-MIT Program is collaborating with NACCE members in California, northwest states and Canada, education partners and educators, and other K-16 ecosystem members. The summit will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about resources around making, inventing, and entrepreneurship and to collaborate on development of contextualized entrepreneurship curriculum.

National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship Supporting the collective interests of our members in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial leadership at the community college level.

Are you registered for the MIT Women's unConference - Presented by GitHub?

Join us for discussion, lightning talks, and panels like "Encouraging Girls and Other Underrepresented Populations to Study Math: Best Practices & Challenges in Secondary Schools & Colleges" by Ranu Boppana '87, Maria De Vuono-Homberg, Ruthi Hortsch PhD '16, Debra Borkovitz, PhD '92. Register below.

The goal of the MIT App Inventor team is to empower young people to develop apps worth making: digital solutions to problems they face in their everyday lives and around the world. MIT App­­ Inventor teaches coding and mobile app development, but, more importantly, it enables anyone—even kids or people who may not think of themselves as coders—to develop mobile apps with real-world impact.

Help App Inventor launch on iOS! Help MIT Annual Fund raise $100,000 for the project: Help App Inventor launch on iOS!. Your gift will make a difference!

Girls Day,s bi-annual event celebrating women in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Held tomorrow, November 4, 2017, from 11am to 4pm at the MIT Museum. Girls day encourages girls (and boys) to explore, build, create and investigate with MIT faculty, students, and volunteers throughout the day. All hands-on activities, informal talks and demonstrations are included with admission.

Girls Day | MIT Museum Girls Day November 4, 2017Join us for Girls Day, our bi-annual event celebrating women in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Explore, build, create and investigate with MIT faculty, students, and volunteers throughout the day. All hands-on activities, informal talks and de...

MIT Women’s Initiative busts women in STEM stereotypes with workshops for young girls. Help expand the program–give to their crowdfunding campaign before Sep 30, and consider sharing this post to spread the word! https://goo.gl/fDEPJB

Help MIT Women's Initiative bring science to schools Help MIT Annual Fund raise $10,000 for the project: Help MIT Women's Initiative bring science to schools. Your gift will make a difference!

If you are a middle or high school teacher, after school professional, or other educator who wants to enrich your students' educational exprience, join us for a three-day workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 24 - July 26, 2017. The workshop will develop educators’ capacity to help kids learn to think and act as an inventor while developing a solution to a real-world problem. Register now: http://lemelson.mit.edu/events/three-day-workshop-middle-and-high-school-teachers-east-coast