Connecting STEM to the City and Youth to Their Futures
CityScience raises the quality of STEM education and supports environmental stewardship by using the natural and built environments of cities as laboratories for active learning.
CityScience, who relocated from Midtown to DUMBO in 2014, uses the context of the city and the guidance of STEM professionals to teach and inspire kids to participate in society. We were thrilled to honor their work in the neighborhood with a 2016 DUMBO Dozen Award this year. We sat down with CEO Thor Snilsberg to learn…
The Robotics Team from MS 202Q in Ozone Park won the “Golden Ticket,” which makes them one of the seven teams from Queens to advance to the next competition held by the NYC First Lego League Robotics Championship. It will be held at City College of New York on March 11. With this year’s topic…
You may be thinking “what?!”. But it’s true, besides humans, ants are the only creatures which will farm other creatures. Just like we raise cows, sheep, pigs, chicken and fish in order to obtain a food source, ants will do the same with other insects. The most common occurrence of this is with aphids. Ants…