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Volunteer as a judge in ‘Future City’ middle-school civil engineering competition, Jan. 21

Newton STEM

Future City is a four-month civil-engineering program for middle-school students, culminating in an annual design competition in January. The program seeks professional engineers (and others with relevant technical backgrounds) to volunteer as judges to evaluate the student teams’ work.

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Math Teacher Writer Highlight: Helen Squire

Accelerate Learning

Helen Squire’s love for STEM can be found in all areas of her life—from her job as a math teacher at a charter school, her education (a bachelor’s and master’s in civil engineering), her side gig as a STEMscopes Math curriculum writer, and even her chosen names for the family dog and cat (Vader and Tesla).

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13 Websites on Architecture/Engineering

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using for Architecture and Engineering: Architecture. ASCEville –Civil engineering jobs, activities. Engineering. ASCEville –Civil engineering jobs, activities. Concord Consortium –chemistry, earth science, engineering, life science, physics.

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Edison K-8 – STEM Field Trip (3.16.2022)

Northeastern University

For this 1 hour field trip, which had 100 students in five classes, we talked about engineering and solving problems – with a focus on civil engineering. NU students Gabby (Civil Engineering) and Zandria (Industrial Engineering) came out during their spring break to help run this field trip: thanks you two!

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BSCES Model Bridge Competition, Grades 5-12, Feb. 4

Newton STEM

The Boston Society of Civil Engineers will host its annual Model Bridge Competition on February 4 both remotely and (once again!) See Engineer Your Future for information about volunteering and/or donating to support the competition. in-person at Wentworth Institute.

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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING – generally involves the design and construction of aeroplanes, jets, gliders, autogyros, helicopters and more, but the skills needed to do this can be applied to other areas. CIVIL ENGINEERING – the design and construction of infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, buildings, railways and utility networks.

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Chittick School – STEM Field Trip (3.22.2022)

Northeastern University

Today we learned all about engineering and the engineering design process (EDP) and taking a closer look at Mechanical and Civil Engineering. The day started off with an introduction to EDP, learning that engineers solve problems and that engineers specialize in a certain field to solve certain kinds of problems.

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