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This immersive one-day program brings Providence public school students to the Brown University campus to experience a college setting and learn about their opportunities in higher education.

Science and technology instruction is about to get even more engaging than the exciting lessons already in place at Providence’s Vartan Gregorian Elementary School. 

Teachers and administrators at the school, located just blocks away from Brown University in the city’s Fox Point neighborhood, are working with the University to transform an empty classroom into a hands-on, interactive space where students from kindergarten to fifth grade can explore science, technology, engineering, arts and math — or STEAM for short.

Dedicated spaces for individual and group study. Comfortable, versatile and laptop-friendly furniture. And a refreshed, expanded and diversified collection of books and periodicals.

Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation to a Brown University professor, a high-flying new robotics curriculum is coming to high schools across Rhode Island.

The curriculum teaches students the basics of robotics in the process of building and programming their own autonomous aerial drones. It was originally developed as a college class by Stefanie Tellex, a computer science professor at Brown. The NSF grant enabled Tellex to adapt the curriculum for high schoolers and provide schools at no cost with the drone parts needed to teach it. This past summer, Tellex trained teachers at Mount Saint Charles to teach the course that will be offered this fall at the school.

Come celebrate National Biomechanics Day with engineers from Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital!!

To introduce high school students to the field of biomechanics and biomedical engineering. To engage them in hands-on ac�vi�es with state-of-the art biomechanics research technology and provide an opportunity to interface with Engineering professionals and graduate students.

Audience will learn best practices for academic tutoring and mentoring from current and former teachers. The audience will learn ways to appropriately deliver high quality tutoring and mentoring to students in the Providence community. This workshop intends to provide undergraduates with the skills to effectively serve in educational setting. Students will practice lesson planning and learn new skills in facilitation skills.

This is a great workshop for members of BEAM, SCP, ESOL, STEMS, SEADD, PAL, OLEEP, Inspiring Minds, and other students involved in education based service groups!

Available in February and March to Grades K – 12 in Single, Multiple Classrooms, or Assembly format.

Your students can ask any burning questions about the most important organ in the body. Engage in lively discussions about decision-making, memory, sleep, the senses, injury, and disease. Test their knowledge in brainly mythbusters while enjoying the most interactive anatomy lesson they’ll ever have!