Tag: Mary Baker
NIU alum Sam Watt will be in China using innovative, NIU-developed techniques to teach STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – to sixth- and seventh-graders in Beijing this school year. Watt’s classes will be based around lab activities specially developed by STEM Outreach, part of NIU’s P-20 Center in the Division of Outreach, Engagement,...
NIU made a big impact on participants and attendees during Wednesday’s Google Geek Street Fair in Chicago. The event – the first of its kind in Chicago – is part of Google’s effort to spur young people to ente the science and technology fields, or, as DNAinfo’s David Matthews wrote, “to stir scientific curiosity in...
Students looking for fun, hands-on ways to explore new careers this summer can register for Northern Illinois University’s summer camps. NIU’s day and residential camps run throughout June, July and August and cover a variety of topics to keep students in elementary school through high school engaged in learning and growing. They also offer students...
What wacky contraption would you create to keep snakes from slithering onto your head? Children got the chance to answer that question Feb. 7 at the “I <3 Engineering” event at the DuPage Children’s Museum in Naperville. NIU STEM Read partnered with DuPage Children’s Museum and author Andrea Beaty to present a night of hands-on...
Founders of NIU’s College of Education’s Technology Oasis did not have time to ponder whether their creation would prove successful. During its first three months of operation in 2011, more than 300 faculty members, students and staff members walked through the doors asking for help with their iPads, iPods, laptops, smart phones and long lists...
