Big news for #UVM: The @UVMMedCenter, in collaboration with the Vaccine Testing Center at UVM Larner Med, has been selected to take part in a Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial.

Home Sweet Home in Orbit nytimes.com/2020/11/02/sci…

STEM Lecture - “The Stuff Superheroes are Made Of” from Dr. Amber Doiron of UVM University of Vermont Biomedical Engineering. The talk will be about the field of Biomaterials focused on designing better materials for devices to improve human health. Nov 13 at 11:30 am

Nov 18 is the last Wednesday of the month, so we are having another workshop on Zoom from 12:25 pm to 1:25 pm. Graduate students from Dr. Daniel Weiss' lab in the UVM Medical Center will host an interactive workshop on designing a functional lung outside of the body.

Our STEM lectures have all been on Zoom this year. Here is a screenshot of a recent talk on Software Engineering given by Matt Sessions from Packetized Energy @PacketizedE. Thanks, Matt for a great talk!

The Weiss lab hosted a workshop for EHS STEM Academy students this week. Thank you for sharing your research with us.

The EHS STEM Academy is looking forward to Dr. Almassalkhi's talk on combating climate change with electrical engineering! Mads Rønne Almassalkhi UVM CEMS

Meet Heliora, the creation of a high school senior in 2018. This comic won the NSF Generation Nano prize for superheroes inspired by science. Thanks, Mads Rønne Almassalkhi for the introduction during our STEM lecture last week nsf.gov/news/special_r…

Congratulations to our first-semester STEM internship students for your AMAZING presentations last night. COVID made everything different this year, but you adapted like champions and you did a great job with the experiences that were available for you.

Thank you to Viktoria Manyukan and Nicholai L'Esperace from IBM for a very informative workshop on programming with Python.

We're SO happy to be part of the first team of high school interns at Beta Technologies BETA Technologies. Our students are very excited to learn more about this innovative company.

The adventure is only beginning. ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover took its first drive on Mars. This test marks a major milestone before science operations get underway for the largest and most advanced rover yet on the Red Planet.

Thanks to Janel Roberge from St. Michaels College Michael for leading us in a great virtual workshop about delineating a local watershed.

STEM Academy students have created recommendations for planting trees around the school. These trees will be donated in the fall by the Rewild Vermont project. 350vermont.org/rewild-vermont/

Thanks to DonorsChoose for their help with our remote telehealth experience with Global Brigades in Honduras. Our STEM Internship students are participating in live telehealth visits in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

Essex STEM Academy is starting a partnership with Tottori HS in Japan. We have each shared introductory videos and we are working on a spring phenology project.

The graduation ceremonies for the STEM Academy class of 2021 have begun! They all shared their work yesterday at a virtual ceremony for the 10th and 11th graders, this year's seniors are a very impressive group!!

Congratulations to the STEM Senior class of 2021! Our seniors presented their capstone projects in a ceremony last night. They did a great job, it was so wonderful to see all that they have accomplished in spite of the pandemic. The STEM faculty wish you all the best!!

The year is done! The seniors have completed their requirements and received their honor cords. The internship students have also finished their experiences and we are wrapping up the weirdest year in STEM Academy history. We wish the STEM Academy class of 2021 all the best!

STEM Internship students participated in a remote telehealth experience in Honduras with Squads Abroad this past year, squads.org/a-unique-inter…