SITC Past Projects

In November, Kelly Grey (Associate Director of the Barnard Design Center) lead teachers in an artistic physics workshop at the Design Center. Teachers created speakers out of recycled conductive materials and magnets and connected them to music players with simple circuits to amplify their favorite songs. Afterwards, we experimented further with electricity producing sound waves and added another connection to a sensor that picked up on electrical currents plants and even our bodies!

One of our Teacher Fellows brought the ecology work lead by environmental science professor Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch at the Summer Institute back to his school and posed a big challenge to the entire seventh grade: identify, and measure every tree in north Central Park and its surrounding streets to create an up to date tree map of their community. Students divided up sections of the neighborhood to investigate and used NYC Tree identification guides to support their mapping process.

Here at STEAM in the City, we are big proponents of using makerspaces as a home bases for hands-on student STEAM learning. Throughout the Institute and our extension workshops, we explored different makerspaces and discussed what supplies and tools are helpful to start building one of your own: this picture was taken on a specially guided Q&A and tour of the Fab Lab at Marymount School. With STEAM in the City's support, Teacher Fellows began building their own classroom makerspaces, including Cricut laser cutting machines, Ultimaker 3D printers, extra scissors and colored pencils, traveling supply carts, and more.