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STEM Gift Ideas
If you're like me (and be honest, many of you are), the holiday season has snuck up on you, and you still have gifts to buy. Allow me to make life a little easier for you and make you the greatest gift-giver ever. Two truly phenomenal gift ideas that very literally...
Winter Themed STEM Activities
Make Fake Snow This is especially fun with younger kids, but even older ones will love it. Reindeer Races You could use balloons decorated as reindeer taped to a straw on a "zipline" for younger students and student-built "cars" (mousetrap or otherwise) for older...
Reindeer Races
This project fits beautifully as part of our list of winter-themed STEM activities and can be used with all different ages/grade levels. Use balloons (decorated as reindeer) that are taped to a straw on a "zipline" for younger students, and use decorated "cars"...
Fake Snow STEM Lesson
This is especially fun with younger kids, but even older ones will love it. There a few recipes for fake snow, so one way to incorporate a cross-curricular lesson is to make all the recipes and see which is the best; use charts and graphs to show results, and then...
Bob Fulbright
Bob Fulbright is the amazing educator who won the 2017 John Kingsley Kerver Educator Award. This award is generously sponsored each year by Karen North in honor of her father, a former engineer at Exxon. As a graduate from Lake Forest College and the University of...
Adriana Lopez
Adriana Lopez is one of our 2017 EDAP winners. Adriana was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she spent the first 15 years of her life. In Puerto Rico, she participated in programs such as CS4Girls (Computer Science for Girls), SWE (Society for Women in Engineering)...
Olle Middle School STEMtastic Breakfast Series
Olle Middle School in Alief is excitedly planning their STEMtastic Breakfast Guest Speaker Series for this school year. Twice a month they invite a guest speaker to share information about his/her work, awareness, and education in STEM with their students from...
Energy Day Houston 2017 with Switch Energy Alliance
Switch Energy Alliance shows off some exciting STEM exhibits at this year's record breaking Energy Day Houston 2017. More than 30,000 students, educators, and industry leaders joined together to explore career paths in the fields of science, technology, engineering,...
A New Energy Day Festival, A New Attendance Record
HOUSTON – October 21, 2017 – Families, students, educators, and local industry leaders turned out in droves Saturday to set yet another attendance record at Houston’s seventh annual Energy Day Festival, hosted by Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and the Consumer Energy...
Colorado’s Inaugural Energy Day Festival Kicks Off Amidst a Flash of Cold Weather
DENVER, CO. – Despite the cold weather, children, parents, and families joined Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) and over 54 organizations to celebrate the state’s first annual Energy Day Festival, a STEM and energy education event, at East High School in Denver on...
Energy Day Lesson Plans
Calling all educators! Do you have an award-winning lesson that highlights a STEM concept? This year following Energy Day Festival in Houston, we will be hosting a contest for educators. Submit a lesson plan to us implementing one of the STEM concepts you saw being...
Allen Green
Allen Green is a 2017 I-SWEEEP Energy Grand Prize recipient. He graduated valedictorian from Lawrence High School in Cedarhurst, NY. Scientific research became a major part of his life since last year. He has been recognized in several capacities: the Korean Science...
Bus Grant Opportunities
Each year we bus students and volunteers to Energy Day. In years past, many independent school districts, charter schools, private schools, and community centers have taken advantage of this opportunity. If your school or your community group is interested in applying...
Indhu Gunda
Indhu Gunda won an award for her entry in the 2017 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing. Indhu is a dedicated and hardworking high school student who likes to explore challenges. Her favorite part of computer science is developing programs that address complex challenges....
Vijay Moorthy
Vijay Moorthy is in third grade and won an award for his art entry in the 2017 CEA and HMNS Art, Essay, and Media Contest. Prior to this award, Vijay won several awards for academic excellence at his school, St John Paul II Catholic School. He has also obtained...
Amanda Opp
Amanda Opp was one of the winners of NREL's 2017 Lithium-Ion Battery Car Competition. Amanda just finished middle school at The Manning School in Golden, CO, where she was honored to be in the National Junior Honor Society. She loves to volunteer in the community, and...
Cross-Curricular STEM Challenges Part II
(If you haven't already, read our first post about Cross-Curricular STEM Challenges.) A CS lesson on human interface design using Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Younger students may require an explanation of interface). Think about the droids in Star Wars as...
Cross-Curricular STEM Challenges
STEM requires problem solving, and problem solving requires a broad spectrum of thought. Because their brains haven't been conditioned to think in a vacuum, many times young students can tackle problems that have stumped engineers. Because of this, we at Energy Day...
2017 CSTEM Competition
This past weekend, Energy Day was busy. In Houston, we attended the CSTEM competition at the Health Museum. Congratulations to the CSTEM winners: Tekoa Charter School, Beatrice Mayes Elementary School, Southwest Middle School, Energy Institute High School, and...
NREL’s 27th Annual Car Competition
On Saturday, Energy Day Colorado attended the 27th Annual NREL Junior Solar Sprint and Lithion-Ion Battery Car Competition. It was a beautiful day in Denver as we awarded the winning teams for their hard work in STEM. Congratulations to Stargate School for winning the...