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K-12: Edgerton Center School and Community Groups   Sponsored by the Edgerton Center:  The program offers an opportunity for Cambridge teachers to bring their students to the Edgerton Center for a hands-on science activity. Each activity is designed to reinforce the major concepts being taught in an associated science unit. These activities help to build a bridge between the Cambridge Science curriculum and real-world problems and phenomena. The program currently offers activities which support fourth, fifth, sixth and middle school curriculums. Other school or community groups can arange visits to the center for activities similar to those used for the Cambridge school classes. 
K-12: Family Adventures in Science and Technology Sundays   Sponsored by the MIT Museum, Family Adventures in Science and Technology (F.A.S.T.) Sundays are monthly Sunday afternoon programs open to the public. Each program is sponsored by a different center or department and includes hands-on activities. 
K-12: KEYs (Keys to Empowering Youth)   The Public Service Center provides workshops for girls 11-13 that feature hands-on science and engineering activities, as well as personal development discussions on career possibilities, confidence, and more. 
K-12: MITES (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science)   The School of Engineering presents MITES (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science), a six-week residential enrichment program for top high school juniors from around the country that includes classes in math, science, and engineering. An objective of the program is to encourage students from underrepresented groups to pursue science and engineering at MIT or other top schools. 
K-12: Mr. Magnet Program   Sponsored by the Plasma Science & Fusion Center, Mr. Magnet is a traveling, interactive demonstration of magnetism and electricity that visits elementary school classes. 
K-12: Plasma Science & Fusion Center, High School and Middle School Outreach Days   Sponsored by the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, students and teachers from schools in Massachusetts are invited to learn about current research at the Center through a first-hand look at ongoing experiments. 
K-12: Science and Engineering Program for Middle School Students   Sponsored by CMSE.

Since 1992, the Glass Lab has collaborated with MIT’s Center for Material Science and Engineering (CMSE), and a NSF- funded program created to introduce young adolescents to the field of materials science and engineering. Every summer several groups of boys and girls from Cambridge public middle schools come to the Glass Lab, where they get hands-on experience designing and making their own objects in molten glass. 
K-12: Science Expo   The Public Service Center organizes an annual city-wide science fair in which Cambridge students exhibit their projects at an event on campus. A team of MIT student volunteers view all of the projects and provide feedback to the younger students. While on campus, the Cambridge students are split up to tour MIT labs and projects. 
K-12: SciPro   The Public Service Center furnishes this program, which matches MIT student volunteers with junior and high school students in the Boston area to work on science projects. The MIT students serve as mentors and meet regularly with the younger students. 
K-12: SEED (Saturday Engineering Enrichment and Discovery) Academy   Sponsored by the School of Engineering, SEED is an enrichment program for students from Cambridge and Boston high schools designed to encourage the students to pursue science careers. Classes include science, engineering, and math. The program accepts a new group of freshman each year and continues with them throughout their high school careers. 
K-12: STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)   Sponsored by the School of engineering, STEM is a five-week summer enrichment program for top Boston middle school students that also includes mentoring throughout the year. Courses include chemistry, math, and physics. 
K-12: Traveling Plasma Lab   Sponsored by the Plasma Science & Fusion Center, the Traveling Plasma Lab introduces middle and high school students to plasma, the fourth state of matter, by involving students in plasma experiments. 
K-12: Women's Technology Program   Sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.  The The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and, team-based projects in the summer after their junior year. 
K-12: You Go Girl!   Sponsored by the Edgerton Center.  A 4-day summer program for girls entering high school in September. The curriculum varies a bit from year to year, but includes hands-on science and engineering activities that sometimes include materials science, as well as classes that are more personal development-oriented (i.e., self-esteem). 
K-12: Blue Lobster Bowl   The Blue Lobster Bowl is an ocean sciences academic competition for high school students.  The goal is to stimulate students’ interest in many areas of ocean sciences including chemistry, biology, engineering, history, ecology, climate change and weather.  Each year, in late winter, teams comprised of four students, one alternate and their coach participate in our regional competition.  Teams are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of the ocean sciences both individually and as part of a team.  The morning will include a round robin scramble and the afternoon is a double elimination tournament to determine a winning team.

This year the Blue Lobster Bowl competition will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2008 at MIT.  The winning team will receive an all expenses paid trip to the national finals in Seward, Alaska.  Nine other teams will receive prizes including educational trips, scholarships, and a cash allowance for ocean related learning materials.

 
Teachers: Materials Research Experience for Teachers   Sponsored by CMSE: The Center for Materials Science and Engineering offers middle and high school science teachers an exciting opportunity to participate in cutting-edge materials research at MIT and design classroom material based on that research. 
Teachers: MIT Museum Teacher Workshops   Sponsored by MIT Museum, teacher workshops are conducted annually in partnership with the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) as a summer institute. 
Teachers: NEST (Network of Educators in Science and Technology)   NEST (Network of Educators in Science and Technology), the alumni organization of SEPT (Science and Engineering Program for Teachers) participants, meets twice a year for lectures and demonstrations. 
Teachers: Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT)   SEPT is an annual one-week summer program for approximately 50-75 junior and senior high school science teachers that consists of lectures and tours and is designed to inform them how engineers apply the science principles they teach in their classes to current research problems. 
Teachers: Science Teacher Enrichment Program   Sponsored by CMSE.  Participants: Massachusetts middle and high school science teachers Program Objectives: to increase content knowledge of both materials science and engineering and the engineering design process, to provide teachers with opportunities to explore the properties of a range of materials design engineering, to develop modules for the classroom that address Massachusetts learning standards. 
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