STEM-Oriented Service Projects

STEM, as many of you many know, stands for science, technology, engineering, and math. Today’s page talks all about stem-oriented projects in community service. There are many out there that involve helping scientists with their research, helping kids learn about these topics, and much more.

Here are your check in questions for today:

 Climate science projects:

• Zooniverse has a ton of projects that you can help scientists that are working on real, current research. These tasks range from easy to difficult and you get choose your difficulty level. So you don’t need to worry about super difficult tasks. And you can do it whenever! There is no deadline.

  • Help create Australia’s longest daily weather record

    1. Help with important ecological research in the Netherlands

    2. Discover Floating Forests

    3. Urban Heat Island Mapping - periodically recruiting volunteers

• Climate change education:

  • Alliance for Climate Education - Join as a High School Student anywhere from the US

    1. Bring attention to climate change curriculum

       • maybe you could introduce this idea to your high school or middle school board/science teachers!

       Astronomy and Space Science

• Spot the disks around nearby stars where planets form!

• Search the Catalina Outer Solar System for distant, icy new worlds

• Help discover variable stars

• Chabot Space and Science Center - volunteering opportunity for high school students

  • applications should be opening soon

Animals

• Help scientists map penguin populations!

Tutoring

• Tutoring by High school students in math and science - Upchieve

Other

• Help this program run by high school students add to their program database

  • they are looking for programs that high school students can participate in the STEM areas

  • You can even volunteer for them! They are called SuccessBaseMass

 Coding

• Girls Who Code

  • Campaign for Girls Who Code!

  • Fundraise for Girls Who Code

    • community fundraisers

    • ‘when you celebrate’ fundraisers

• Volunteer at Code for Fun

  • become an instructor, help them expand, or build coding curricula!

• Advocate for Computer Science Education in the US

• Translate Coding Education Videos

 Become a Virtual Volunteer at TeensGive

Volunteer with TechGirlz

3D Printing

• If you have access to a 3D printer (at home or at school), you could try helping out at Enabling the Future!

  • make free and low-cost prosthetic upper limb devices with open source designs for children and adults in need around the world

  • learn how to do it with tons of resources and help on their website

• An interesting article to check out: Volunteers use 3D printing to aid covid-19 relief efforts

 Tutoring

• Volunteer with BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics)

  • What is BEAM about? BEAM helps connect low income students to the necessary resources to enter competitive STEM fields, including math.