STEM Center

The Center for STEM Education facilitates collaborations between Northeastern University's science, engineering and math departments and the teacher preparation and development programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education. The goal of the Center is to enhance GK-16 STEM education by consolidating and coordinating Northeastern's existing outreach programs and by creating new ones that positively impact the STEM pipeline, STEM teaching and learning, and STEM education research. Stem Center programs include:

Young Scholars Program (YSP)
Young Scholars Program offers hands-on experiences in science and engineering research labs to high school students from eastern Massachusetts. Extensive recruitment efforts includes outreach through MassPEP, Harvard Minority Biomedical Career Program, New England Board of Higher Education Minority Career Fair, and in full coordination with NU/LSAMP High School Program. The student participant population is 50% female.
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET)
RET offers a six-week summer research experience for middle and high school mathematics and science teachers from BPS, eastern Massachusetts and also Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York and Florida. Teachers work in science and engineering research labs at Northeastern University. The STEM Center provides professional development for participating teachers.
GK-12 Fellows Program: Partners Learning in Urban Settings (GK-12)
The GK-12 Fellows Program offers science and engineering graduate students the opportunity to provide K-12 classroom support within their partner schools: John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, Health Careers Academy, Fenway High School, Another Course to College, and English High School. Fellows work collaboratively with a host teacher for a minimum of ten hours per week throughout the academic year.
Retirees Enhancing Science Education through Experiments and Demonstrations (RE-SEED)
RE-SEED prepares retirees with technical backgrounds (scientists, engineers, mathematics, and physicians) to engage students in active learning using a variety of activities that demonstrate the principles and concepts of physical science. The training consists of thirteen intensive workshops in which the participants learn how to lead students to carry out science experiments with inexpensive household materials. Once trained, a RE-SEED volunteer spends one day a week in a middle school working with his or her assigned teacher. Since the program began in 1991, more than 500 RE-SEED volunteers have worked nearly 500,000 hours with more than 100,000 students in ten states.