STEAM Ahead
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DODEA STEALTH SCIENCES GRANT
November 2022
Check out the following information for ...
- Events & Activities
- Contests
- Resources for Families & Educators
- Volunteer Opportunities
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What is happening in our STEAM Clubs?
Owl Pellets!
Examining Owl Pellets at ACES!
There are all kinds of things in here!
Studying PH at NPE; a measure of how acidic or basic a substance or solution is
Experiment: adding different acids & alkaline substances to red cabbage water
Observing: when acid is added to the solution turns red-pink and the base turns blue.
Events & Activities
All girls in grades K-12 are invited to this month-long event!
Celebrate science, technology, engineering, and math with STEMapalooza, November 1-30!
Explore, discover, and experiment with STEMapalooza this November. Visit the STEMapalooza website to find details for in-person STEM programs, live virtual programs, STEMapalooza challenges, and STEM fun for the whole family! Choose to meet an owl, compete with your family in STEM trivia, become a citizen scientist, or learn what it takes to put your STEM dreams into action. Try at least one activity to earn your STEMapalooza patch, or dive in and try it all!
For more information, click here!
First Fridays plus so much more!
For more information, click here!
Families!
All Students!
Are you thinking about going into the medical field? Come Walk with a Doc and ask your questions!!!
All Students!
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking student performing artists who exemplify resilience, diversity, and excellence and are interested in showcasing their talent.
Check out the Stealth Science Student Engagements (Guest Speakers) Resource List!
Contests
2022 Alaska Radon Poster Contest
Young artists can show off their creativity and help bring awareness of the dangers of radon – a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that can cause lung cancer – by entering the Alaska Radon Poster Contest.
More information about the contest and an entry form are available at the 2022 Alaska Radon Poster Contest home page.
Students aged 3-18 are invited!
All submissions will travel to space digitally aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner
For more information, click here!
For 6th - 9th grade students
For more information, click here!
2023 Writing Contest
Write a piece that shows how female and/or non-white engineers have contributed to or can enhance engineering’s great achievements.
For more information, click here!
High School Students!
The STEM topics include environmental science, aerospace optometry, autonomy, oceanography and more!
Deadline November 28, 2022, at 12 pm ET.
For more information, click here!
NASA and Future Engineers’ Power to Explore Student Challenge
KET Young Writers Contest for PreK - 12th grade
Singing contest for grades K-12
Contestant must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national.
Contestant does not have to be related to a VFW or VFW Auxiliary member to participate.
For more information, click here!
Coral Reef Drawing Contest
Coral reefs are the most biodiverse places in our oceans, teeming with creatures of all kinds. They serve as physical homes for thousands of species of fish, waystations for great ocean wanderers and produce the most spectacular of all ocean displays with their firework-like mass spawnings! You're on a journey down in a state of the art submersible to go explore one of these wondrous places and we want your imagination to run wild with all the possibilities of what you might see!
Rules
1) Drawings are submitted on submersible window themed paper (see attached). Fill in the ‘window’ representing one of the portholes of your submarine with your image!
2) Drawings should be of something that you could hypothetically find on a coral reef! Fish, crustaceans, sea snakes, sharks, even groups of scuba divers! Have fun with it and don't be afraid to use LOTS of color! Take a look at some coral reefs (especially in the Coral Triangle or Great Barrier Reef for inspiration.
Contest End Date: November 30th @ 5:00pm eastern
Teachers can scan or take photos of their students’ drawings, sending them to ebtsoyp@gmail.com and using the email heading ‘Coral Contest Submissions’.
Teachers, please include your name, grade, school and location in the email. You might also choose to collect all the drawings in a Google folder, sending the link to us.
You’re welcome, and encouraged, to share images in advance of the contest end date on social media and linking us @ebtsoyp or our partners @oceanwise or @lecreefs
All submissions will be displayed on a special contest padlet (Padlet.com/ebtsoyp/coralart) and many will be featured on the social media pages of the participating partner organizations!
Winners will be announced on December 5th as we celebrate the #LoveNature campaign!
Find the PDF you can print for your class in this folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/103V_f1B3s-L8ipy55aCEAX28u075dU4O?usp=share_link
Resources for Families & Educators
Sign up for How to Catch STEAM Week, a week-long celebration of all things STEAM from November 7 to November 11 for a chance to win!
For more information, https://www.howtocatchclub.com/steam-week.html
Engage Kids in Hands-on Engineering
Use DESIGN SQUAD GLOBAL hands-on activities and videos in classrooms and afterschool programs, at events and at home, to watch, design, and build!
For more information, click here!
Biodiversity Challenge: Students 10-15 years old
This season's Challenge launches with a free 24-hour teach-in from November 2-3 to celebrate biodiversity and your students are invited.
Learn more and register for the Teach-In: https://bit.ly/oec-teach-in-2022
Marvelous Manatees of Mote Aquarium
Hosted by Aquarium Experts
November 17 | 9:00 - 9:30 AM AK Time
Families and students ages 5-13 will find out what makes manatees so special and how they can help protect them
Register at this site!
Access to Computer Science
One middle and high school in every U.S. state and D.C. will be awarded the CS Leaders Prize of $10,000 to help establish computer science education for their students.
Enter your submission before November 21, 2022 at this site!
Future City starts with a question!
How can we make the world a better place?
To answer it, middle school students imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future that showcase their solution to a citywide sustainability issue.
For more information, click here!
X-STEM All Access
X-STEM All Access is a free virtual conference series for middle and high schoolers designed to get students excited about STEM.
For more information, click here!
Callisto: Space Innovation Tour
From Launchpad to lunar orbit, discover how Amazon, Lockheed Martin, and Webex are testing new technology that could help future astronauts solve challenges of deep space.
For more information, click here!
Volunteer Opportunities
DoDEA Stealth Sciences grant
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