NASA Ambassador teaches kids about Mars
Students strut stuff at STEAM Fair
The Martha Jones School recently held a STEAM Fair to showcase the wide variety of talents of its student body. The fair lets students present projects they create in the areas of science, technology, engineering, art or math. Fair visitors viewed demonstrations and art displays from 100 students, and were treated to a concert by...
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MCPE awards $131,000 in grants
The Medfield Coalition for Public Education (MCPE) has awarded $131,000 in grant funds to Medfield Public Schools initiatives over the past year.
The coalition funded 34 grants across Medfield’s five schools. The grants span multiple areas of education, including curriculum enhancements in science, art and reading, classroom enhancements and initiatives for students’ personal development. District-wide grants...
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Sixth graders design unique civilizations
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Dover-Sherborn Middle School held its STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics) Fair on Thursday, where sixth graders were tasked with using all the skills they’d learned in their classes to design a unique civilization. To make matters trickier, each civilization had to address a challenge currently facing the...
Walpole Library hosts desert STEAM event
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By James Kinneen
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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Molly from Walpole looks on as Kara Dean helps her make a rice cactus.[/caption]
After having made recyclable towers last week, and with their...
STEM Expo to feature ‘Picturing Science’
The Wellesley Education Foundation Board of Directors has announced a featured exhibit for Wellesley STEM Expo on April 6. “Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies,” an exhibition of more than 20 sets of striking large-format prints, showcases advanced imaging technologies used by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and reveals once-hidden, intricate...
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Young inventors make grabbers at library
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By Amelia Tarallo
Hometown Weekly Staff
“Has anyone ever used any robots?” was the key question asked of children at the Dover library on Thursday, February 28. Some children nodded.
If they hadn’t before, they were going to learn today.
Children came to the Dover Library, back fresh and well-rested after finishing their February break,...
Dover Library, CRS host STEM program
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By Alex Oliveira
Hometown Weekly Reporter
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On Wednesday the 16th, The Dover Town Library and the Charles River School hosted their first of a now-ongoing STEM program (STEM standing for science, technology, engineering, and...
Troop 62275 Brownies visit science lab
Girl Scout Troop 62275, a 3rd Grade Brownie Troop in Westwood, recently visited the lab of Life Biosciences in Cambridge.
The scouts were interested in visiting the lab to learn more about science, see it in action, and talk to a few female scientists about their careers, what they studied, and what they do on a...
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NRC hires naturalist Lisa Moore
The Wellesley Natural Resources Commission (NRC) has hired Wellesley resident and naturalist Lisa Moore as the new Environmental Education and Outreach Coordinator. Moore is a skilled science educator and her experience both in the classroom and in nature will help further the NRC’s role as an environmental leader in Wellesley.
During the past seven years,...
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‘Creative Mixtures’ makes STEM exciting
By Katrina Margolis
Hometown Weekly Reporter
Many people say that the future lies in STEM - that is, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Considering the technologically-dependent world in which we live, it might just be true. In order to instill an early love of what can sometimes be perceived as “boring” or simply unreachable due to complexity,...
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Children STEAM forward at Needham Library
