Aviation career awareness through hands-on activities, field trips and flight in a small aircraft.

Camp Invention is an exciting program that provides STEM enrichment for children entering grades one through six. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) concepts are explored via hands-on, creative problem solving activities. Camp Invention inspires children to be curious about their world and prepares them for the future. Working in teams, children are presented with real world challenges that promote the direct application of critical-thinking and communication skills demanded by colleges, careers, and citizenship in the 21st century.

The SEE Science Center is hosting a traveling exhibition titled Citizens Bank Presents Dinosaurs! in the same building as the science center from February 9th to June 16th 2013. The exhibition will feature half-scale to full scale robots that move and make sounds plus hands-on dinosaur activities for the whole family. While a visit to the exhibit may be a fun and exciting outing for a child it also inspires a life-long interest in science. Our youngest visitors can learn about the physical features of each dinosaur represented and how these features would have helped them to survive and about other types of animals that lived with dinosaurs. Older visitors can learn how different dinosaurs are classified; how dinosaur evidence is discovered and debated; and how studying the climate of the Mesozoic can help us understand climate change today.

Thanks to the Friends of the Library and the NH Space Grant Consortium, the Library is pleased to welcome the Discovery Dome to our Lecture Hall on Thursday, April 25. The Discovery Dome is a portable full-dome that offers a state-of-the-art visual learning experience. Join us to watch The Dinosaur Prophecy in full surround. Long before dinosaurs' massive extinction 65 million years ago, many individual species simply disappeared. Visit dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how these creatures lived and died to solve four famous cold cases from the age of the dinosaurs in The Dinosaur Prophecy. We will have 3 showings at 9:30am, 10:30am, and 11:30am. Attendees will be treated to an immersive & realistic experience! Call the Library at 516-6052 to reserve space in one of our 3 showings.

eCYBERMISSION is a FREE STEM online competition for students in grades 6-9. The competition is sponsored by the U.S. Army and managed by the National Science Teachers Association. Teams of students identify a problem that affects their community and solve it using scientific practices or engineering design processes.

This program provides focused research experiences to middle and high school teachers, and 2yr college faculty within an active or related area of NH EPSCoR research (see Research Descriptions)

Summary: This intermediate institute will focus primarily on geospatial data, which includes acquiring, managing and importing the data into the GIS software in a desktop environment instead of online. Topics: Day 1: intro to ArcGIS Online & buttonology, tables, setting up organizational accounts Day 2: intro to ArcGIS Desktop, streaming in basemap data, projections Day 3: GIS workflow, metadata, georeferencing Goodies: All participants will receive a $100 stipend Cost: Non-credit: Free Credit: $220 (1 credit undergrad or grad through Keene State) Registration: See workshop website - http://extension.unh.edu/Intermediate-Institute

KEEPERS is a weeklong, half-day experience that acquaints elementary students with the various engineering fields. Activities are designed to assist the development of inquiry and design skills. Students explore fun, real science concepts, and engage in short stories and hands-on challenges.

Annual Conference dedicated to integrated STEM education. Focus on applied mathematics and science through technology and engineering activities.

The SEE Science Center announces a special event for all current SEE members called Paleontology Uncovered. Attendees will meet Jeremy Riedel a veteran of nine paleontology expeditions. Have you ever wondered, (or has your child asked) . . . How do Paleontologists learn about Dinosaurs? Where and how are fossils found? How and why do scientists study fossils? . . . Then this event is for you and your family. Learn from someone who has been there. Jeremy A. Riedel is a budding paleontologist currently completing his Master's of Science in Geology at the University of New Hampshire. His current research focuses on whether mammals evolved in response to Earth's warmest climate since the dinosaurs, the early Eocene. When not playing with mammals, Jeremy has spent time excavating Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs in Utah, Montana, and Baja California, as well as time cleaning, studying, and even cutting their bones in museums. During undergraduate work at Marietta College he was delighted to work on yet another type of dinosaur, a giant penguin from New Zealand. Jeremy’s presentation will begin at 6:45 pm, followed by a Q & A session. This is a free event for current SEE Science Center Family Members only. If you need to renew or would like join SEE you can purchase a membership in advance or at the event. We would appreciate an RSVP from all those planning to attend at see-sciencecenter.org June 5th is also United Nations World Environment Day, the theme of which is: Think, Eat, Save, which promotes local sustainable food products and reduced food waste . To join the United Nations in this year’s theme, we will have samples donated by Stonyfield Organic Yogurt at the event.

The major goals of this program are to strengthen STEM learning and motivation and to promote engineering by: •Providing pre- and in-service middle school, high school, and community college teacher-leaders with an intensive summer research experience in an engineering field. •Creating a community of educators, including teacher-leaders, faculty members, and university students, with research experience and teaching knowledge to assist one another as they develop and implement inquiry-based engineering activities. •Providing access to equipment and materials for inquiry-based learning modules through the established UNH Advancing Science Program throughout northern New England. To accomplish these goals, Research to Inspire Students in Engineering (RISE) through Inquiry will support Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) opportunities at UNH for teachers throughout the state and northern New England. During each summer of the project, a cohort of ten in-service and five pre-service teachers will participate in a seven-week experience (1 week of orientation, 5 weeks of intensive research experience, and 1 week of curriculum development with a UNH engineering faculty mentor and their research team). The teachers are active participants within their selected research groups. Teachers develop independent research projects guided by the faculty mentors and graduate students in the laboratories. The seven-week RET summer research experience will include a twice-a-week brown bag lunch series to allow opportunities for further learning and for teacher-leaders to present the progress of their work. School year follow-up to support the integration of the summer research experience and inquiry-based activities within the curriculum will also be provided, both in person and through an electronic discussion board.

Summary: Spatial Institute 101 will provide an introduction to geospatial tools such as GPS, GIS and remote sensing. The institute will also introduce participants to local data collection projects and local data sets. Teachers will be provided with ready-made lessons that promote spatial literacy and use GIS technology in the classroom. Content and activities will be focused towards elementary and middle-school classrooms, although adaptations for older studens will also be discussed. All activities will utilize ArcGIS Online in a web browser, which can be used on both PC's and Macs. Topics: Day 1: introduction to GPS & GIS, mapping with ArcGIS Online MapViewer, fun GPS field activities Day 2: exporing Esri's Map Gallery, ArcGIS Explorer Online (cool presentation tool), setting up an ArcGIS Online organizational account for your school Day 3: conduct a GPS treasure hunt and map it, bringing other data into ArcGIS Online, thematic mapping, classroom integration Goodies: All participants will receive a $100 stipend All participants will receive a GPS unit to keep Cost: Non-credit: Free Credit: $220 (1 credit undergrad or grad through Keene State) Registration: See workshop website - http://extension.unh.edu/Spatial-Institute-101

Established in 2010, the Inventioneers' Patent Scholarship program provides patent scholarships to student inventors ages 8-16. Each scholarship, valued at $3,000, includes working with an intellectual property attorney to create and file a provisional patent application to give the students' invention patent pending status (and patent protection) for one year. In addition to the patent scholarship, the program provides education about the patent process and a planned intellectual property curriculum for young inventors. Since 2007, the Inventioneers, a youth-run organization and a non-profit public charity, has been dedicated to promoting STEM education nationwide.

UNH College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, the UNH InterOperability Lab, CCom, and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard are again collaborating to bring an informal pre-engineering experience to the UNH campus for the summer of 2013. Based upon the success of previous Tech Camps we offer two different camp experiences. UNH Tech Camp 2013 . July 15-26, 2013 A two-week camp for boys and girls that offers two concurrent programs for campers entering grades 7& 8 and 9 & 10. This camp explores electrical, mechanical, aerospace, biomedical, and naval engineering along with robotics and computer technology. Campers will participate in various on-campus and local field trips interacting with numerous engineers engaged in their work. Campers will work in small groups to develop and present a project. Residential and day camper options are available. Day Tuition - $650*, Residential option an additional - $700