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BU Hosts Boston Public School Students for Stem Week 2025

BU’s Government & Community Affairs and Wheelock College welcomed about 75 Trotter Elementary School fifth and sixth graders to the Charles River Campus October 20. The students toured several campus facilities, participated in hands-on STEM experiments at Wheelock, and had lunch at Marciano Commons. Mechanical engineering grad student Chae Woo Lim (GRS’27) (above, center) talked about soft robots with the Trotter students.

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