STEAM Ahead
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January 2023
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- Events & Activities
- Contests
- Resources for Families & Educators
- Volunteer Opportunities
Elementary School: January STEAM Challenge
Junior High/Middle School: January STEAM Challenge
What is happening in our STEAM Clubs?
Hunter Elementary
Ben Eielson Jr. High
North Pole Elementary
Anderson Crawford Elementary
North Pole Middle School
Midnight Sun Elementary
⭐️ Stealth Sciences 2nd Semester STEAM Club Parent Information for 4th-5th and 6th-8th graders ⭐️
Anderson Crawford, Hunter, Midnight Sun, North Pole Elementary, BEJH, and North Pole Middle
Events & Activities
Graduating High Schoolers: AK Native Science & Engineering's Summer Bridge Program
If you are graduating high school this year, you could gain valuable experience through the Summer Bridge program! Apply at https://bit.ly/3Q9kLbj for this upcoming summer. The deadline to apply is on Monday, January 16th!
To ALL Middle Schoolers (6-8 graders): AK Native Science & Engineering Program
It is completely virtual and enables students from across Alaska to connect and learn more about STEM careers and topics through guest presentations and discovery lessons.
Visit https://bit.ly/3Cldy2f to register!
365 SMART (Science, Math, Art, Recreation, and Technology) Academy
UAF Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning created the 365 SMART Academy, which provides virtual and in-person enrichment courses for K-12 students to supplement their academic curriculum.
Spring semester 2023 has 33 different exciting courses over two 6-week sessions that begin in January and in March. Check out the extensive variety of learning opportunities! Homeschooled families can follow up with your homeschool to see how to build your selection into your child's learning plan.
Deadline January 22, 2023
Inspiring Girls* Expeditions
Deadline Jan. 30, 2023
For more information or to learn more about the application process, please visit the program website.
Families!
For K-12 graders!
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking student performing artists who exemplify resilience, diversity, and excellence and are interested in showcasing their talent.
Contests
NASA Particle Partition Challenge
This challenge seeks to identify novel ways that fine carbon particles can be safely and efficiently removed from a Bosch reactor, without impacting the reactor’s performance. Your design concept could help future astronauts breathe easy by contributing to the development of improved life support systems for future extraterrestrial habitats.
Deadline: January 12, 2023
For more information, click here!
Recycling Air Beyond our Earth Junior Challenge
This challenge is all about your ideas for how to maintain a breathable atmosphere inside an extraterrestrial habitat. If you are 17 years old or less, give us your idea for how to keep the air inside a habitat on another planet breathable. Your submission will be a single picture, schematic, or diagram that communicates the key aspects of your idea along with a short description.
Deadline: January 12, 2023
For more information, click here!
Veg Out Challenge - Managing Aquatic Vegetation in Canals
The Veg Out Challenge aims to reduce the cost and labor of aquatic vegetation management in canals while minimizing undesirable impacts to water quality or downstream users. The challenge seeks to identify, develop, and test novel, sustainable, scalable solutions that can be used across a range of canal types.
Deadline: January 11, 2023
For more information, click here!
NASA & Future Engineers’ Power to Explore Student Challenge for K-12 graders
Deadline: January 17, 2023
Art x Climate - for 13-17 years old
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face but it is not too late to make a difference. You can help others understand climate change and inspire people to take action through art.
We are looking for youth ages 13-17 to submit artwork related to the topic of climate, people, and nature.
Deadline: January 27, 2023
For more information, click here!
Pollution Prevention Works: A Storytelling Challenge for High School Students
The Challenge invites students to use the TRI P2 Search Tool to identify a TRI facility that has reported implementing source reduction practices and tell a compelling story about how those practices or techniques benefit the business and positively impact communities and the environment.
Deadline: February 17, 2023.
For more information, click here!
U.S. Kids Art Contest
Through this contest, U.S. Kids hopes to encourage young minds and those who teach them to continue creating wonderful art. “You can’t use up creativity,” writer Maya Angelou said. “The more you use, the more you have.”
This year, we’re asking you to think about what pets do when their humans are out. Do the dogs take up art? Do the cats play video games? What happens? Draw your theories and share them with us!
Deadline: February 1, 2023
For contest rules and how to enter, click here.
Science Without Borders® Challenge for 11-19 years old
An international contest that engages students and teachers in ocean conservation through art. This inspires students to be creative while promoting public awareness of the need to preserve, protect, and restore the world’s oceans and aquatic resources, contributing to the overarching goals of the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
Deadline: March 6, 2023 at midnight ET.
For more information, click here!
The Toyota Dream Car USA Art Contest
The Art Contest is designed to inspire creativity in youth, ages 4-15, and help them imagine the future of mobility.
There are three judging criteria for the artwork: execution, uniqueness, and artistry.
Deadline: January 31, 2023
For the complete list of requirements, download and read the Official Rules and Artwork Guidelines.
2023 Writing Contest for 3rd - 12th grade Students
Write a piece that shows how female and/or non-white engineers have contributed to or can enhance engineering’s great achievements.
Deadline: February 1, 2023
For more information, click here!
Lockheed Martin CYBERQUEST® Competition for High School Students
CYBERQUEST® is Lockheed Martin's annual high school cyber competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage high school students to pursue careers in cybersecurity.
Deadline: February 3, 2023
For a complete list of eligibility requirements see the Official Rules.
Resources for Families & Educators
Check out the Stealth Science Student Engagements (Guest Speakers) Resource List!
UAF Large Animal Research Station
Find K-12 LARS Educational Resources here!
For Teachers: Apply for a Free* Seat in EiE’s All-New Computer Science Professional Learning Course
EiE®, Museum of Science is excited to offer an all-new computer science professional learning course, Computer Science and Computational Thinking for Elementary Educators. This course is a collection of five professional learning lessons intended to build confidence in K-5 classroom teachers and STEM educators who are getting started with, or in need of a foundational refresher course in computer science and computational thinking.
Independent of any specific curriculum or tool, each lesson of the course offers interactive, self-paced activities that provide teachers with innovative strategies and tips for integrating effective and engaging computer science and computational thinking into their limited class time. Each lesson is expected to take approximately 75 minutes, including online learning and hands-on activities to plan for and reflect on classroom implementation.
*Free enrollment in this course is limited and contingent upon your agreement to participate in a feedback process both during and after the course is completed. See below for full details.
For more information, click here!
Teaching Climate Change Essentials (6-Week PD)
2023 Start Dates: January 17 | March 20 | June 5
Teaching Climate Change Essentials is a facilitated, online teacher professional development designed to equip kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school teachers with the knowledge, skills and resources to integrate climate change into their existing curriculum, regardless of their subject area.
Free Enrollment Thanks To Generous Funding
Thanks to generous funding we are pleased to be able to offer free enrollment to any teachers enrolling in the Teaching Climate Change Essentials course for PD hours or CEUs.
For more information, click here!
Volunteer Opportunities
DoDEA Stealth Sciences grant
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