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Whether you have used equipment to donate or are looking to volunteer in a classroom, the Just Offer form of getSTEM is the place to start. Simply fill out the Just Offer form and your offer will be entered in the database. Your submission will automatically be linked with any potential matches from educators who can use your help. |
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Recent Offers
Below is a list of recent offers made by local businesses. Take a moment to browse the list to see if any of the recent offers are of interest. |
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| Turtle and Supplies
Offering a Red-eared Slider turtle, 50 gallon tank, sunning plank, and sun lamp. The turtle is healthy and was just seen by the vet. The turtle has been a family pet, but the owner is moving to college and no longer able to care for it. This turtle may be good for a science or biology classroom or an elementary classroom. Need to know if interested prior to 8/17/10. |  |
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| | Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP)
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) recently launched the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), a national STEM education initiative that provides middle and high school classes across a school district (or even a single school) the ability to propose experiments to fly in low Earth orbit, and to celebrate that accomplishment with their local community and with national and global audiences.
The SSEP supports a local experiment design competition in each participating school district, together with extensive local programming that embraces a community-wide engagement model for STEM education.
Phase 1 of the program is a unique and historic opportunity for students to propose an experiment to fly aboard STS-134, the final scheduled flight of the Space Shuttle. Selected student experiments would fly for 10 days aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. Launch is tentatively scheduled for November 2010, but a launch slip to mid-January is expected, enabling this student spaceflight experiments opportunity.
TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SSEP BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT - OR EVEN AN INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL - WE HAVE DEVELOPED 3 POSSIBLE LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION:
Option 1: A community-wide engagement initiative in STEM education, with two components:
- a Flight Experiment Design Competition across your community, with students vying for at least one experiment slot reserved for you aboard STS-134.
- a Community Program meant to engage your students, their teachers, and their families, and which includes a National Team of scientists and engineers spending a week in your community to talk to 2,000 - 4,000 of your students - one classroom at a time, and providing presentations to families and the public
Option 2: Option 1 above, but without the programming delivered by the National Team of scientists and engineers
Option 3: the ability for an individual school to reserve a single experiment slot on STS-134, but without the community-wide experiment design competition and community-wide programming.
Read more on http://bit.ly/cksFzR
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| | Soudan Underground Physics Lab
I am the Outreach Education Coordinator here at the Soudan Underground Physics Lab. We are trying to share the research that is underway here with a larger segment of the population. We have two major areas of research one is a study of neutrinos and the other is a search for Dark Matter. I am affiliated with the University of Minnesota which is playing a major role in the research here at Soudan.
What we are doing is sharing the research with groups in Minnesota. I am concentrating on the Northeastern Minnesota area but quite willing to take the presentation to other areas of the state. I would probably have to get clearance to go to the far corners of the state, but we could probably arrange for someone from the university to make a presentation in the metro area.
The research is all pure research in that we are not looking for a solution to a particular problem. The neutrino study involves the Fermilab in Batavia, IL shooting neutrinos from there to the detector here at Soudan. The neutrinos in the travel from there to here change a little and in doing so have proven that they have some mass. We are not sure how much mass but there has to be some. The experiment is being extended to a new detector north of here on the Ash River Trail which will be about 50 feet wide 50 feet high and about 300 feet long. The chamber that it is in has been blasted out of bedrock and now is being lined with concrete.
The other major experiment is a search for Dark Matter, CDMS or Cryogenic Dark Matter Search. The experiment in this case is trying to identify the particles that are making up 96% of the mass of the universe. The particular search here is focused on the identification of WIMPS, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. The experiment in this case is conducted at a temperature of 0.05 degrees Kelvin and we are hoping to have even one significant event.
There is not a fee or travel expense of any type associated with the presentation. I have all of the equipment that I will need except a screen or wall to show a power point display. Our grant runs for another eight months so it is a fairly long term commitment of the part of the funding. Our website is www.soudan.umn.edu ; you can respond to this email or call 218-753-6611 for more information.
Outreach Education Coordinator,
Allen Lipke | |
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| | Education of Careers in IT - Target Technology provides in school presentation
Target Technology team, affiliated with the Target Women in Science and Technology, is seeking opportunities to present to high school students. The presentation provides an overview of Information Technology basics, provides additional background on the jobs and positions within IT, and offers students and opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the field. We make the presentation relevent through association with technology that kids use every day such as phone applications, video games etc. This is a great opportunity to consider a field in IT!
We are not limited to schools within the district listed. Please contact us and we will make arrangements. | |
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| | U of M Exploring Careers in Engineering and the Physical Sciences Camp
The University of Minnesota’s Institute of Technology (IT) is seeking a talented, enthusiastic, and culturally diverse group of 80-100 high school students (10th, 11th, and 12th grade in fall 2010) to work with small groups of University scientists, engineers and students, as well as peers from across the metro area who have similar interests in engineering and physical science. Choose from one of five possible sessions: June 14-18 (young women only), June 21-25 (co-ed), July 12-16 (young women only), July 19-23 (co-ed) or July 26-30 (co-ed).
If selected for this program, you will engage in demonstrations, lectures, tours, and lab experiences that will make engineering, science and math come alive as viable careers. Campus tours with Institute of Technology (IT) students, panel discussions and informal lunches with career advisors and faculty, and presentations by IT staff will help you to experience campus life, learn more about academic programs, and explore potential careers.
For more information and to download an application: http://bit.ly/bFg5Lz | |
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| | STEM Educational Materials & Books
Visit www.firstbook.org/stem, a new web site offering FREE STEM activities, educator guides and career information. Schools and programs serving children in need can also choose new STEM-related books from the First Book Marketplace, www.fbmarketplace.org, a non-profit online store offering high-quality children's books and educational materials at 50-90% below retail. Award-winning national literacy non-profit First Book has teamed up with global security company Lockheed Martin to develop and deliver these books and digital educational resources to school and community programs serving children in need.
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