This National STEM Day, Learn About Columbia Programs Encouraging Youth to Get Involved
Celebrating the Columbia programs that encourage kids and adolescents to explore science, engineering, medicine, and more.
Happy National STEM Day!
Today, we're celebrating the countless programs and events held at Columbia University each year that encourage children and adolescents to explore careers in science, engineering, medicine, and more.
Take a look below at just a few STEM-tastic highlights from the great outreach work being done across the University.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center's Curiosity Minds Science Zone brought over 1,200 elementary school students to Haven Plaza this fall to learn about science and medicine and participate in hands-on experiments.
Columbia School of Nursing's Brain Health program connects fourth-grade students in P.S. 128 after-school programs with Nursing school students to learn about topics related to brain health and take a special tour of Columbia Nursing.
Columbia Climate School's annual Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House brings children and their families up to the Lamont-Doherty campus for a day filled with interactive earth science experiments and games.
For over ten years, the Zuckerman Institute's BRAINYAC program has offered high school students summer research internships with Columbia neuroscientists.
Columbia Engineering's Engineering the Next Generation (ENG) program provides rising high school seniors with a six-week project, where they work with researchers to develop academic and professional skills.
The Columbia Mailman School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health Sciences' EARTH program connects students and teachers from Indigenous communities in the Northern Plains with Columbia researchers. Together, they undertake a locally relevant environmental health science project over a summer.
