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Sociedad Latina’s summer program participates in college physics
Reposted from BU College of Arts and Sciences Community post: Sociedad Latina Collaboration Brings Middle Schoolers to the Physics Classroom. Last week Paul Trunfio’s PY106 class paired up with the Sociedad Latina Summer Program. The middle school students from the Boston after-school program attended the physics course as part of an ongoing collaboration in the […]
Visualizing Molecular Networks with Food Coloring
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides. This activity follows from our networks in biology unit to explore the chemical and physical properties of milk, food coloring and dish soap, that create forces amongst them. Students will explore the following questions: How does […]
BNC News “AMplified” Interview with Alexandra Oliver-Dávila
Engineering a Functional Pumping Heart Model
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides. This activity follows from our networks and electric circuits unit by engineering a functional pumping heart model to explore the following questions: What makes our circulatory system a loop? Why is it important that the heart […]
Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers
Our ongoing collaboration between Sociedad Latina and BU is working to put a new, more diverse face on the STEAM workforce by providing both academic and family support. This work was featured in a BU Today article. Read the article: Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers, BU Today, Doug Most […]
Electrical Circuits & Human Circulatory System Activities
Yesterday, Sociedad Latina’s STEAM Team “Network Science Club” hosted the first activity of a multi-part curriculum on the human body. This series of activities began with the exploration of connections between a simple electrical circuit (battery, wires, and resistor) and the human circulatory system from the point of view of networks.
Networks and Electric Circuits
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides. Our networks in electric circuit guide was produced by Michalina Jadick and Mable Lin. Our full teacher and student activity lessons can be found in our Development Portal.
Bucket Drumming
As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides. For Fall 2021, this is our first one, featuring Michalina Jadick. Our full teacher and student activity lessons can be found in our Development Portal.
Developing STEM Career Identity Among Latinx Youth
Members of our project presented at the 2021 Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association.
NetSci4All Advisory Board Meeting
Network Science for All’s Summer 2021 external advisory board meeting, hosted June 9, 2021.