The lights dimmed. A lilting melody drifted out over the audience, and a spotlight illuminated the silhouettes of dancers as they glided on stage. The students filling the seats of Edison Theatre held their breath for a moment as they witnessed something far outside their cultural norm. On Friday, October 24, students from Compton-Drew Middle School, […]
In Brenice Lewis’ fifth-grade science classroom at KIPP Inspire Academy in South St. Louis City, a bright menagerie of jungle animals peers down over college logos and a collection of you-can-do-it! signs. One, above the door, signals to all who enter that “future doctors, presidents, curers of diseases, famous authors…” are busy preparing for their […]
At University City’s Brittany Woods Middle School, Legos are much more than toys: They’re building blocks for future scientists. Every Thursday, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders are busy programming small bumper-bot vehicles to negotiate pre-determined paths in the after-school Lego Robotics Club. “Do you want a challenge?” asks Washington University-student adviser Allen Osgood, offering an idea […]
Alex Kueser (above, left), Jacob Massmann and Tommy Kueser, all of Eureka High School in southwest St. Louis County, prepare their plane for launch during the Boeing Design Challenge at the Washington University Field House April 29. They were among 110 area high school students from six school districts on 26 teams who designed and […]
A field trip to WUSTL’s Danforth Campus April 2 was the culminating activity for local high school students in the AP Prep Program, a WUSTL volunteer tutoring program sponsored by K-12 Connections. Ten undergraduate students regularly visited Gateway STEM High School during the spring semester. For two hours per week over six weeks, 35 Gateway […]
Students from KIPP Inspire Academy, a WUSTL-sponsored St. Louis charter school, were treated to a performance of Black Violin at Edison Theatre Mar. 14. Classically trained artists Wilner “Wil B” Baptiste (viola) and Kevin “Kev Marcus” Sylvester (violin) combine jazz, funk, hip-hop, and classical music for a genre-busting sound. Black Violin’s unique twist on classical […]
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish School included the MySci Investigation Station in a Literacy Night for their K-1 students and families Feb. 20. More than 150 visitors, including children dressed in their pajamas, explored the Investigation Station with the help of Diane Pilla, ISP Resource Center project coordinator, and MySci Ambassador Catherine Garnier (above), a […]
Prominent biologist, WUSTL alum Sean B. Carroll comes back to help ISP celebrate Darwin Day Sean B. Carroll, PhD (above center), vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a WUSTL alumnus (AB ’79) and one of the country’s foremost experts on “evo devo,” or evolutionary developmental biology, returned to campus this month […]
More than 150 people watched as 54 local students competed in the St. Louis Area Brain Bee Feb. 8 in McDonnell Hall on the WUSTL Danforth Campus. This competition for high school students tests knowledge in neuroscience and engages the competitors in cool brain science activities. The annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee is a […]
More than 200 undergraduate students gathered Saturday, Jan. 25, to participate in tutor training for the Each One Teach One (EOTO) program, the signature tutoring initiative of Washington University in St. Louis. Almost half of these students were new to EOTO and excited to learn how to make a difference at schools in the City […]