Resources
Explore STEM-related events, workshops, private tutoring, and volunteer opportunities in our community! This page is to share resources that inspire and engage students in the STEM fields. Contact us if you'd like to share any exciting local STEM events. Stay connected and get involved!
Disclaimer: Please note that the Math and Science Club is not affiliated with any of the organizations hosting these events and assumes no responsibility or liability for your participation. Attendance is at your own discretion and risk. Our club is simply sharing these opportunities for informational purposes.
AIME/JMO/USAMO Level Algebra and Number Theroy Class
One of our club advisors, Professor Pavlo Pylyavskyy, is going to teach a Zoom class in May-August 2025 on Algebra and Number theory. You can find details and register in the form below:
Plastic-Free Challenge: a Hennepin County Library Event
Striving for Resilience Film Club: The Plastic-Free Challenge
To accompany the Plastic-Free Challenge join Ridgedale Library in exploring two Kanopy streaming movies to learn more about plastic’s history, its impact on our environment, and how to manage, reduce, and eliminate plastic waste. The movies are The Story of Plastic and Plastic Earth. After watch either or both movies complete a survey to help us with our programming and attend a program with Hennepin County Environment and Energy on Feb.15th 12:00-1:00 to learn more.
We would love for you to watch the movies and take a survey! The Kanopy streaming application is available to Hennepin County Library patrons by using their library card and pin. If a user needs a library card, they can get one online here: https://www.hclib.org/about/library-cards/get-a-card. Kanopy is also available to Ramsey County Library users.
Striving for Resilience: Plastic-Free Challenge Ways to Go Plastic-Free
Join the Plastic Free Challenge February 1-28 to learn how to reduce plastic consumption, especially single-use plastics, in ways that fit your lifestyle and are most impactful. Join Hennepin County Environment and Energy Department at Ridgedale Library to learn about participating in the Plastic-Free Challenge, plastic's impact on the environment, easy plastic recycling, and simple ways to eliminate plastic from daily life with swap-outs.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Crafting With CDs
Give new life to those shiny CDs and plastic cases! In this fun intergenerational workshop, craft a stylish CD medallion necklace and decorate an adorable little home for it that you can add to your locker or refrigerator.
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Kitchen Drone Project
It teaches middle school kids how to build a drone - both the software and the hardware, is founded by a senior who won a national NASA Hunch award. He’s excited to share his skills and inspire the next generation! .
The first meeting is on Saturday 9/28/2024. More details are at bit.ly/4cxbGTc.
Thanks to Nicole Brilakis for providing the source.
With the meteoric rise of technology, mathematics has risen in power and is prized in every sector of today’s data-driven market. To our detriment, we now value the sciences over the arts, digital over analog, and utility over beauty, replacing what is complex with what is measurable. The dangerous effects of these choices have started to make us less human. Exploring Albrecht Dürer and Salvador Dali, Burning Man and Beowulf, and the mysteries of 4D origami, we use the lens of mathematics to offer a possible way forward, to redeem and renew our STEM obsessed world.
Satyan Devadoss is currently the Fletcher Jones professor of applied mathematics and professor of computer science at the University of San Diego. He was professor at Williams for nearly 15 years, holding visiting positions at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Ohio State, Harvey Mudd, Université Nice, and Stanford. A fellow of the American Mathematical Society and recipient of two national teaching awards, his thoughts have appeared in NPR, the Washington Post, the Times of London, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been generously supported by the National Science Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Department of Defense.
https://anselmlecturesandseminars.eventcalendarapp.com/u/39626/320713
Thanks to Yingling Fan for providing the source.