The USC Children's Center is inviting your students and their families to a free STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Fair this Saturday, November 9th from 9 AM to noon at its location at 1530 Wheat St. in Columbia, South Carolina.
Through 13 interactive exhibits, the STEM Fair will demonstrate activities that incorporate inquiry-based skills into play time with children - even to those in infancy - on a day-to-day basis.
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| "Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind." - Albert Einstein |
The STEM Fair exhibits are connected to science and math standards for early childhoods students, and include hands-on components, guiding questions and accompanying literature.
Inquiry-based learning, which is fundamental to academic and career success in the STEM fields, can begin very early in life.
The STEM Fair includes opportunities for children to explore and design at several exhibits including:
- Explore marine animals in the USC BIO-Team Touch Tank
- Zoom! Magnification Station
- Engineering Catapults or Parachutes with the USC Theta Tau Engineering Fraternity
- Science of Sports
- Egg Drop
- Investigate the power of your senses during a Sensory Walk
- Design a water pipe system in the Pipeworks exhibit
- Create musical instruments from recycled materials
- Paleopuzzle
- Fire Engine
The fair is open to the public and will feature hands-on activities inside and outside for parents and children ranging in ages from infancy to elementary, but children of all ages will find interesting, engaging activities there.
If you would like more information about the STEM Fair, please contact Nicole Carrico at 803-777-8842 or carrico@sc.edu up to the day of the event.
