Utah STEM Action Center

Applications are open now for our mySTEM program! This program engages students in STEM through service learning, student-led projects, and connections with STEM professionals. Students receive support from the STEM Action Center through mentors as they work to solve real-world problems and participate in citizen science opportunities.

This program is for students in grades 6–12. Apply by August 15 to join the 2026–27 mySTEM Scholar cohort: stem.utah.gov/mystem/

From making your own costume to inventing your own board game, we have some awesome summer camps with spots still open!

Sign your kids up for our new Camp Innovate Mini camps (four day camps), where they'll meet new friends, learn new skills, and do hands-on maker activities.

Jewelry camp is for ages 8-15 and Board Game Studio and Character Craft are for ages 10-17. The cost is $120. Visit our Eventbrite page and sign up today! https://www.eventbrite.com/o/utah-stem-action-center-54456081773

You can also find more STEM summer camps on our website here: stem.utah.gov/students/summer-camps

Learn how to build a working light bulb from scratch in just 30 minutes using simple materials and hands-on engineering. June's featured Tinker Time project explores the science of electricity and the invention of the light bulb! More Tinker Time spots will open next week.

Check out our current openings for Hub classes and Camp Innovate on our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/utah-stem-action-center-54456081773

The Utah State Board of Education and Google for Education are offering professional development around artificial intelligence (AI) for K-12 and higher education educators. These trainings are FREE and open to all educators, thanks to support from Google for Education. The summer trainings will cover integration of AI across infrastructure, in classrooms, and in policy.

Learn more and sign up here: https://sites.google.com/schools.utah.gov/aitraining2026/home

Innovation Hub update: Tinker Time is paused for the rest of May while we prepare for our Camp Innovate summer camps. A shortened version of Tinker Time will resume in June.

We still have Camp Innovate spots open for Physics & Engineering, Jewelry Engineering, Character Craft (costume making), Fabric Forge (beginning sewing), and Board Game Studio. Don't miss out on fun camps this summer - sign up on our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/utah-stem-action-center-54456081773

Meet our STEM Best Practices presenters. Alyson Yeates-Linford is a mentor teacher at Weber State University Charter Academy. Her session models how movement, nature-based inquiry, and pattern exploration can support early mathematics. Participants will leave with practical strategies illustrating how observation, movement, and place-based exploration can build early math and science understanding.

Yeates-Lindford will present in Price on June 18 and in Ogden on June 30. Sign up for our conference now to secure your spot: stem.utah.gov/educators/programs-events/stem-best-practices-conference/

We're so excited to welcome Maynard Okereke/Hip Hop Science to our Innovation Hub on Friday! If you're coming to the event (tickets are sold out), and you would like a signed copy of his book, you'll need to purchase a book and bring it with you. Kings English Bookshop in Salt Lake City has copies available in store. See you there!