2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

The Green STEMS Project is an engineering design for sustainability outreach program for children and families. The Green STEMS programs engage children and their adults with early science and engineering concepts to build empathy around issues of sustainability. These programs are designed for informal settings, typically at community events, rather than use within classrooms. These programs include concepts such as light, structures, structural color, biomimicry, coding, and engineering design thinking. The information shared at the resource exchange will focus on the following three programs:
Textures in Nature in which early learners explore the variety of textures that can be found around them.
Colors in Nature where late elementary learners explore how colors can influence engineering design for sustainability.
How Things Move where late elementary and middle level learners learn to use robotics to explore movement.