Tulane Center for K-12 STEM Education

NORD Outdoors’ annual Photo Contest is happening now! 🏞️ 📸 🌄 Submit your photography by April 24th for the chance to win an Audubon Family Membership and other prizes. Judged by local New Orleans artists Cynthia Ramirez, Kieth Duncan, and Jake Gold. Cast your vote today for the People’s Champ Award!

Click here: https://nordphotocontest.shortstack.page/9QGVtS

Incorporating interest in both STEM and the arts!! 🧑🏼‍🚀🚀🦞🎨🖌️

🚀 Houston, we have a Crawfish!
Big news from the final frontier (and our own backyard)!

Through Tulane University’s K-12 STEM Outreach program, over 150 middle schoolers from across New Orleans competed to design the official ISS Mission 21 patch. Students from Holy Cross, Benjamin Franklin, St. Edward the Confessor, and John Curtis Christian Schools brought their A-game, blending science with local spirit.

After a tough judging round by Tulane students and faculty, we have a winner!

Congratulations to John Tran from Holy Cross School! Mentored by teacher Tara Lavender, John’s winning design features a "Space Ambassador" crawfish decked out in iconic Mardi Gras purple, green, and gold. Keep an eye out—New Orleans culture is officially heading to the International Space Station! 💜💚💛

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! FRC Bayou Regional is coming up. Swipe for dates and information on how to sign up! 🤖 ⚙️ 🔧 🧰

We love our partnership with Esperanza!! 💙💚🍪🧪🔎

From finance and engineering to theater and AI, students partner with nonprofits to turn coursework into community change. Donning lab coats, goggles and gloves, fifth graders at Esperanza Middle School had a mystery on their hands. They had to figure out how one of their classmates became ill after eating a cookie at lunch.

Read more: https://tulanian.tulane.edu/spring-2026/ones-own?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read%20the%20Story%20%C2%BB&utm_campaign=tulanian-spring2026

We hosted 385 middle and high school students last week for the Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair! Congratulations to all the winners! 🔬🧬⚙️

One of our favorite events to run!! 🤖⚙️

This weekend, middle and high school teachers took time out of their Mardi Gras break to learn more about the ecosystem of City Park and how invasive plant species impact the ecosystem. Thank you .nola for hosting us today and leading us on a hike and canoeing as well as Tammy from who came to discuss how teachers can apply for their service learning grant to bring their students out here!

Today, middle and high school teachers took time out of their Mardi Gras break to learn more about the ecosystem of City Park and how invasive plant species impact the ecosystem. Thank you LOOP NOLA for hosting us today and leading us on a hike and canoeing as well as Tammy from STEM Library Lab who came to discuss how teachers can apply for their service learning grant to bring their students out here!

Our In-Schools Enrichment program has started back up for the spring semester! We’ve been exploring neuroscience, paleontology, forensics, and fish ecomorphology, among other topics, with our partner school students. Shout out to the activity leaders and our amazing service-learning students!

Thanks for visiting us!

It’s Tulane STEM Day at the Louisiana Children’s Museum!

Join us from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for hands-on science, tech, engineering, and math fun led by Tulane students.

Don’t miss the American Chemistry Society’s “Hidden Life of Spices” table in celebration of National Chemistry Week, it’s a flavorful way to learn!