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NIU’s STEM Café for June promises a lively debate on the good, the bad, and the ugly of social networking. “This is Your Brain on Social Networking” will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 28, at Taxco Restaurant in Sycamore. Biologist Melissa Scotti and educational technologist Kristen Brynteson will discuss what’s new...
Beginning Saturday, Feb. 11, NIU STEM Outreach will present Science Saturdays, a series of six, interactive, hands-on science classes for students in fourth-grade and higher. STEM Outreach associate Jeremy Benson will help students explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM!) and learn concepts such as the physical properties of sound waves and the forces that...
The Digital Convergence Lab and a team of NIU students, faculty and staff are preparing to unveil their newly developed video game, Picodroid. The game, developed for NIU STEM Outreach, was designed to teach basic concepts in chemistry and physics to middle and high school students. A by-invitation-only demonstration will be held today on campus....
As the last of STEMfest’s 4,000 participants trickled out of the Convocation Center Oct. 22, they were still buzzing with the day’s excitement. “The lasers are cool! The static electricity is cool!” one young girl chattered to her parents. She looked out over the festival floor’s hundreds of hands-on exhibits and threw out her arms...
After a hugely successful event last year, NIU now is gearing up to hold its second annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Festival, better known as STEMfest, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at the NIU Convocation Center. The festival promises to be even bigger and better than ever with backing from lead...
Saturday, Aug. 6, is the last chance to attend NIU’s popular Summer Under the Stars program. In June and July, attendees had an out-of-this-world time with the history of the Space Shuttle program and Telescope Night. At 7 p.m. Saturday in Davis Hall Room 315, you and your family can learn about Earth’s cosmic kid...
Friday nights were like graduation at Stevenson Towers this summer. The cafeteria tables were draped in red and black cloths. Parents arrived after work in sundresses, suits or coveralls and steel-toed boots, on time so they wouldn’t miss dinner and the ceremony. As campers showed off their week’s worth of accomplishments and received their certificates...
Families can beat the heat with a “cool night” in the cosmos contemplating the icy reaches of space at 7 p.m. Friday, July 22. NIU’s STEM Outreach will present the second Summer Under the Stars event, Telescope Night, in LaTourette Hall Room 200. This event is free and open to the public. Suzanne Willis from NIU’s...
Two years ago, NIU’s popular Haunted Physics Laboratory was supersized into Spooky Science Saturday. Now the event, which uses Halloween themes to teach young people about the wonders of science, is about to get exponentially bigger. NIU is gearing up to hold its first Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) festival from 10 a.m. to...
