Throughout the semester, engineering mentors collaborated with Beachmont Veterans Memorial School and Garfield Middle School STEAM Clubs to teach lessons every week. During this time, engineering mentors directly engaged in Boston communities to learn how to apply the design engineering process for real community partners and facilitated activities for students to have more exposure to…
Partner: Beachmont Veterans Memorial School
STEAM x Service-Learning at the Beachmont Veterans Memorial School
Creator: Anne Shea Course: GE1501 Cornerstones of Engineering 1, GE1502 Cornerstones of Engineering 2 This artifact describes the partnership between Northeastern’s Cornerstone of Engineering course and Beachmont Veterans Memorial School. Our course’s service consisted of facilitating STEAM club activities, so the artifact presents pictures and topics explored in these activities. The artifact highlights the joint…
Presentation for Beachmont Veterans Memorial School and Cornerstone of Engineering
Creators: Students from GE 1501 Cornerstones of Engineering 1 (Schulte Grahame) Class Course: GE 1501 Cornerstones of Engineering 1 (Schulte Grahame) This artifact contains a description of the partnership between Northeastern’s Cornerstone of Engineering course and Beachmont Veterans Memorial School. Our service consisted of facilitating STEAM club activities, so this artifact summarizes the skills and…
Service-Learning in Engineering
Creators: Students from GE1501/1502 Course: Cornerstones of Engineering (Schulte-Grahame) My artifact is a powerpoint that displays pictures from Service-Learning in my class and quick bits of information describing what we do. Since each activity is cleaned up by the end of each session, the best way to present what we do for service-learning would be…
Marine Engineering: What is buoyancy?
Creator: James Ayton Course: Cornerstones of Engineering (Schulte Grahame) Our artifact is a sample slide from one of the activity presentations James and I put together for our service partners. Our service-learners would take these materials to the service sites (both 4-5th grade after-school programs), present a short lecture on the engineering topic, and lead…
Sustainable Engineering in Communities Outside of Northeastern
Creators: Whitney Hansberry, Vish Swami Over the semester, students from Prof. Schulte-Grahame’s class put in service hours at both the Clubhouse Network in Roxbury and Beachmont Elementary School’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) Club. Isobelle Lim (pictured above), one of the lead mentors at Beachmont who attended the club every other week, said…
Museum of Sustainability and Resiliency
Museum of Sustainability and Resiliency Creator: Simone Harrell and Elena Petillo On Friday April 12th, Professor Kathryn Schulte Grahame and her first year engineering students hosted 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students from Beachmont Memorial School to test their final projects. Throughout the semester, Cornerstones students have been serving at the Clubhouse network and the…