Southern Arizona
Join Tucson STEM Community at Westbound MSA Annex 11/13
Tucson STEM Community brings Southern Arizona’s STEM outreach network together a few times a year for drinks and conversation. The next gathering is Wednesday, November 13, 2019 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Westbound at the MSA Annex (just north of the new Caterpillar building west of downtown). More information on the Tucson STEM Community…
Read MoreInvestigating Cybersecurity in Arizona
Explore opportunities to learn about cybersecurity in Arizona. This was compiled from notes taken at the AZ Cybersecurity Forum. I attended the forum’s Tucson location, and other locations joined in virtually from around the state, including Prescott, Mesa, and Sierra Vista.
Read MoreNight Wings Returns This Summer to Pima Air & Space Museum 7/23 & 8/27
Explore the museum during the cool summer evenings from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.! Hand-on kids educational activities in all hangars. Flight Grill open for dinner. The entire grounds open until sundown. Cost: Discounted admission $10 for adults and children 12 and under FREE! For more information about Night Wings, please visit http://www.pimaair.org/edu/family-events or email: [email protected]
Read MoreSign up for Jr Shark Tank Today!
Is your student a born Entrepreneur or Inventor? Do they have interest in Business, Engineering, Technology or Science? Are they thrilled by a challenge? Then S.Y.STEM Coalition’s Junior Shark Tank Competition is the summer program for them!! From June 6-July 30th*, S.Y.STEM Coalition is conducting a scholarship competition for high school students in Tucson hosted at…
Read MoreUA students work on cool projects, show them to high school students at STEAMworks.
Inspirational and aspirational. Helping high school students say, “That was really exciting! How would I go about doing some of that myself? How can I get there? What do I need to do?” Lisa Stage and Kelly South talking about the University of Arizona’s new event, STEAMworks STEAMworks is an ambitious new event that directly…
Read MoreWho Provides the STEAM in Tucson and Southern Arizona?
Ever wonder about the organizations behind the STEM and STEAM programs in Southern Arizona? Here’s a quick roundup, in no order but alphabetical, of just a few of the *whos* responsible for the amazing learning opportunities that happen here! LOCAL Bio5 Institute at the University of Arizona http://www.bio5.org/ Biosphere 2 http://b2science.org/ Children’s Museum Tucson http://www.childrensmuseumtucson.org/…
Read MoreExploring STEM at 2015 SARSEF Future Innovators Night
I had been waiting a while to catch this moment and SARSEF‘s 2015 Future Innovators Night was my chance. This child was checking out the Mad Science Tucson display at the event, and I just happened to be walking past. In fact, the resident mad scientist running the display was about to pack up his equipment…
Read MoreSTEM Teachers: Don’t Miss The STEMAZing Institute 6/29-7/1
Register for the 2015 STEMAZing Institute!
Read More2015 SARSEF Cox Future Innovators Night
I had the pleasure of attending SARSEF‘s 2015 Cox Future Innovators Night on March 11 at the Tucson Convention Center. What a blast! More than 75,000 STEM research projects were entered in Southern Arizona science fairs this school year, and 1,903 of them were selected to compete at SARSEF. The TCC exhibition hall was lined with…
Read MoreTucson’s 2015 Arizona SciTech Festival events
The Arizona SciTech Festival‘s 2015 kickoff is January 31, with a fantastic downtown Phoenix event, Connect2STEM. But what if you’re in Baja Arizona? What’s happening when? Give us our STEM! The Arizona SciTech Festival website offers a sortable events calendar–if you’re looking for Tucson-area events, select Pima County and/or Southern Arizona as filters. Here is…
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