STEM Outreach is a practical guide for explaining engineering and science to different audiences without oversimplifying the evidence or turning an activity into advertising.
Topics
- Choose a concept that can be observed or measured.
- Design a safe demonstration with a clear learning objective.
- Adapt technical depth to age and prior knowledge.
- Use questions, prediction and measurement to keep participants active.
- Design inclusive activities and reduce unnecessary participation barriers.
- Collect feedback and improve the activity after each event.
- Document sources, safety limits and attribution.
Examples should come from actual FermiLabs activities and projects where evidence is available.
FermiLabs course review brief
Learning objective:Design STEM outreach as a safe, assessable engineering experience.
Content update:Link outreach activities to outcomes, safety checklists and teacher evidence templates.
Suggested activity:Plan and evaluate one outreach activity from question to evidence.
Evidence to produce:Run sheet, safety record, learner artefact and reflection.
Review status:Draft editorial integration; verify source curriculum ownership before public promotion.
Curriculum
- 17 Sections
- 133 Lessons
- 60 Days
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- Introduction and 👩🔬 Women in STEMLearning focus: 🟢👉 SKS Online Course guide, tips, and emojis meaning list; 🆕🔬👩🔬🎧 The importance of STEM literacy for all students, regardless of gender. Lessons are preserved in source order (11 mapped).11
- 1.1🟢👉 FermiLabs Online Course guide, tips, and emojis meaning list
- 1.2🆕🔬👩🔬 📮 The importance of STEM literacy for all students, regardless of gender
- 1.3🆕💼👩🔬 📮 Career opportunities and paths in STEM fields
- 1.4📮 Inclusive STEM Design: Removing Unnecessary Barriers
- 1.5👩🔬🎓💡🔬🚀🎤🅰 📮 Barriers to STEM Participation for Young Women and Strategies for Supporting Underrepresented Groups
- 1.6🆕👩🔬💡 Historical background of women in STEM and current statistics
- 1.7🆕👩🔬🎓💡 📮 Hands-On Activity: Creating a STEM and Space lesson plan project
- 1.8🆕👩🔬🙌🎓 Hands-On Activity: “Women in STEM”
- 1.9🆕👩🔬🎓💡🗽 📮 Real-life examples and case studies to illustrate the challenges and discrimination faced by women in STEM
- 1.10👾💡👉 Join our Open Discord Server to share your progress, engage with other and peer review your activities
- 1.11❓🗽🎓💡🔗 10 Women in Engineering – Let’s play a Kahoot
- 🔬 STEM Engagement 🎓 Resources for Educators and play ❓ Kahoot! quizzesLearning focus: 🆕👩🔬🎧🎓💡 Importance of STEM engagement and Community Outreach activities; 🆕👩🔬🎧🎓 Planning and executing STEM outreach initiatives. Lessons are preserved in source order (10 mapped).10
- 2.1📮 Evidence-Led STEM Engagement and Community Outreach
- 2.2📮 Planning Safe, Inclusive STEM Workshops
- 2.3🆕🚀🎓💡🔗 📮 The Importance of Space Education and the ESA outreach program ESERO
- 2.4🆕👩🔬🎓 📮 What is NASA’s Next Gen STEM Project and how to use their online resources
- 2.5🚀👩🔬🎓💡 NASA STEM Engagement Resources and Rocketry activities
- 2.6🆕🛸🎓💡🔗 📮 NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
- 2.7❓🎓💡🔗 📮 Kahoot! tutorial 1/2: How to create, host and play super fun quiz event for students Step by step
- 2.8❓🎓💡🔗 📮 Kahoot! tutorial 2/2: How to Introduce a new topic with Kahoot! EDU subscription
- 2.9❓🎓💡🔗 📮 Kahoot: STEM Engagement and Outreach activities and ideas using the pre-made quizzes and games library
- 2.10❓🎓💡🔗 📮 Collection of best Kahoot activities ready to play and free and premium resources
- 🛸 Space Exploration 💡 Ideas and ActivitiesLearning focus: 🆕🛸🎬💡 Why Space Exploration is so important and the 3 sci-fi movies; 🟢🌌🛸💡🌍 Explore The Earth, ISS and the Solar System with Google Maps. Lessons are preserved in source order (7 mapped).7
- 3.1🆕🛸🎬💡 📮 Why Space Exploration is so important and the 3 sci-fi movies
- 3.2🟢🌌🛸💡🌍 📮 Explore The Earth, ISS and the Solar System with Google Maps
- 3.3🆕🛸🔗💡🥘 📮 NASA Space Place – Explore Mars: A Mars Rover Game
- 3.4🟢🌌🛸 📮 The Scale of the Universe
- 3.5🌌🛸💡👉 📮 Explore The Solar System Interactive Tour and How a 360° video works
- 3.6🆕🛸🎓💡🥼🔬🎨🧰 📮 Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy
- 3.7🆕🛸🔗🎮💡 📮 NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) and game activity
- 🦾 Robotics and 💻 Coding ActivitiesLearning focus: 🆕🦾🎧💡 Engage and inspire the next generation with STEM and Robotics/rover activities; 🆕🦾👷♂️👨🎓🎧💡 Robots Challenge mission and the Engineering process of designing with fixed…. Lessons are preserved in source order (9 mapped).9
- 4.1🆕🦾💡 📮 Engage and inspire the next generation with STEM and Robotics/rover activities
- 4.2🆕🦾👷♂️👨🎓💡 📮 Robots Challenge mission and the Engineering process of designing with fixed conditions and variables
- 4.3🦾🤖💡 📮 Solving the Rubik’s Cube with a robot hand or with a LEGO for AI Artificial Intelligence research and Education
- 4.4🆕🦾👽🛸🎓💡🥼🔬🎨🧰 📮 Robotics: Rover and Robot in Space with KSP Kerbal Space Program
- 4.5🆕🦾👽💡 📮 KSP Rovers Design
- 4.6🆕🦾💡 📮 Advantages of using Robots in space
- 4.7🆕🦾🔗 📮 Educator Guide for NASA’s Robotic Search and Rescue Challenge and UAS
- 4.8🆕🦾🔗💡💻🔮 📮 How to make step-by-step a Sphero robot challenge
- 4.9🆕💻🔗💡 📮 Make a Moon or Mars Rover Game using Scratch
- 🚀 Introducing Rocketry and Hands-on STEM ActivitiesLearning focus: 🆕🚀🎧🅰 What is a Rocketry Club and how to join a Team; 🆕🔬👩🔬🚀💡🎓 10 Hands-on learning activities and design challenges to demonstrate the practical…. Lessons are preserved in source order (16 mapped).16
- 5.1🆕🚀🅰 📮 What is a Rocketry Club and how to join a Team
- 5.2🆕🔬👩🔬🚀💡🎓 10 Hands-on learning activities and design challenges to demonstrate the practical applications of STEM education
- 5.3🆕🚀👩🔬💡 How rocketry team members can engage and inspire the next generation of space enthusiasts with STEM and Rocketry activities for younger students
- 5.4🆕🚀💼🗽 Big names in Aerospace Engineering Rocket Science
- 5.5🚀🔗👉 📮 The History of Rockets
- 5.6🆕🍎🚀💡🗽📎 📮 Applying Newton’s Laws, Forces, and Inertia
- 5.7🆕🚀💡 📮 Tutorial How to make a straw rocket
- 5.8🆕🚀🔑💡🥼🔬🎨🧰🧪🅰 📮 The Science of Rocketry: Tutorial Building a Pasta Rocket Engine with common household supplies
- 5.9🆕🧵🚀⚡🥼💡🔗🔑🔬🎨🧰🅰 📮 How to make a Test Stand for Water Rockets
- 5.10🆕🚀🥼📎💡🔬🎨🅰 📮 How to make a Water Rocket and, launch experiment and attempt for Record-Breaking Rocket
- 5.11🆕🚀🏆 Euroavia Airbus Sloshing Rocket challenge
- 5.12🚀💡🔗 📮 Ideas and safe Rocketry STEM activities
- 5.13🆕🚀🔑 Glossary and Acronyms of Rocketry Terms
- 5.14🟢🚀🎓💡🔑🔬🥼🎨🎬🅰 📮 MOVIES: Advice for Aspiring Rocket Scientists and a Rocket Engineer Reviews of “October Sky”
- 5.15🆕🚀💡 📮 Tutorial Stomp Rockets using plastic pipes and a soda bottle
- 5.16🆕🚀💡 📮 Build and Launch a Foam Rocket
- 🚀 Rocketry Team Departmental OutreachLearning focus: 🆕🚀👷♂️🎧💡🔗 Engineering Design Challenge – Safe Landing on the Moon; 🆕🚀👷♂️⚙ Mechanical Engineering Activities – Hands-on demonstrations of rocket assembly and propulsion…. Lessons are preserved in source order (14 mapped).14
- 6.1🆕🚀👷♂️💡🔗 📮 Engineering Design Challenge – Safe Landing on the Moon
- 6.2🆕🚀👷♂️⚙ 📮 Mechanical Engineering Activities – Hands-on demonstrations of rocket assembly and propulsion systems
- 6.3🆕🚀👷♂️⚙💡 📮 Activity Group rocket design challenges using provided materials
- 6.4🆕🚀👷♂️🔌 Electrical Engineering Activities – Introduction to circuit design and wiring of rocket systems
- 6.5🆕🚀👷♂️🔌 📮 Team-based electrical wiring and testing challenges
- 6.6🆕🚀👷♂️💻 Software Engineering Introduction to rocket software
- 6.7🆕🚀👷♂️💻 What are the Software Used in Rocketry Team Clubs
- 6.8🆕🚀👷♂️💻 📮 Group coding challenges and Hackathon to program rocket flight simulations
- 6.9📮 Rocket Design and Stability in Open Simulation
- 6.10🆕🚀💡📐 📮 Rocket Center of Pressure and Center of Mass
- 6.11🆕🚀👷♂️ Overview of aerodynamics and rocket flight mechanics
- 6.12🆕🚀👷♂️💡 📮 Team-based challenges to design and test air-powered water rockets
- 6.13🆕🚀👷♂️ 📮 Safety first Group launch events for student-designed rockets
- 6.14🆕🚀👷♂️ 📮 Organizing successful Interactive Questions and Answers sessions with members of the rocketry team
- 🥽 Virtual Experiments in Physics and EngineeringLearning focus: 🍎🔌💡🥽 LAB: AC Alternating Currents Circuit Construction Kit; 🔌⚡💡🥽 LAB: Resistance in a Electric-Wire Resistivity Resistance Circuits. Lessons are preserved in source order (15 mapped).15
- 7.1🍎🔌💡🥽 LAB: AC Alternating Currents Circuit Construction Kit
- 7.2🔌⚡💡🥽 LAB: Resistance in a Electric-Wire Resistivity Resistance Circuits
- 7.3🍎🔌⚡💡🥽 LAB: Ohm’s Law – Circuits Current Resistance Voltage
- 7.4🍎🔌⚡💡🥽 LAB: Static Electricity
- 7.5🍎💦💡🥽 LAB: Under Pressure – Pressure and Fluids Density
- 7.6🍎⚙️💡🥽 LAB: Balancing Act – Proportional Reasoning Torque Lever Arm Rotational Equilibrium
- 7.7🍎🔭💡🥽 LAB: Color Vision – Photons Monochromatic Light White Light Rainbows
- 7.8🍎🔌💡🥽 LAB: Faraday’s Law – Magnetic Field Magnets
- 7.9🍎🔭💡🥽 LAB: Bending Light – Snell’s Law Refraction Reflection Optics Prisms Lenses Light
- 7.10🍎🔌💡🥽 LAB: Charges and Fields – Electric Field Electrostatics Equipotential Electrostatic Potential Electric Charges Voltage
- 7.11🍎🌡️🌌 💡🥽 LAB: Greenhouse Effect – Greenhouse Gases Heat Thermodynamics Climate
- 7.12🍎🔭💡🥽 LAB: Molecules and Light – Molecules Photons Absorption Light
- 7.13🍎⚙️🌌💡🥽 LAB: Gravity and Orbits – Gravitational Force Circular Motion Astronomy
- 7.14🍎💡🥽 LAB: States of Matter – Atomic Bonding Interaction Potential Dipole
- 7.15🍎⚙️💡🥽 LAB: Projectile Motion – Kinematics Air Resistance Parabolic Curve Vectors Drag Force
- IntroductionLearning focus: 🟢👉 SKS Online Course guide, tips, and emojis meaning list; 🆕👩🔬🎧💡🎓 Importance of increasing representation of women in STEM fields. Lessons are preserved in source order (7 mapped).7
- 8.1🆕👩🔬💡🎓 📮 Importance of increasing representation of women in STEM fields
- 8.2👩🔬🎓🔬💡 📮 STEM: Early Introduction and Interdisciplinary Integration, Benefits
- 8.3👩🔬🎓🔬🧵⚡💡 📮 The maker movement in Education STEM STEAM
- 8.4🆕👩🔬🙌 Women in STEM Interactive group activity to introduce the topic and generate interest
- 8.5💼👩🔬👨🎓🎓🤦♂️💡 📮 STEM Education and Skills in today’s World and how impact our Society
- 8.6🎓👩🔬🔬🎨🔲💡 📮 Differences between STEM and STEAM and free tools like Roblox
- 8.7🟢🎓👩🔬👷♂️🔬🧵🤖⚡💻📐🎲👽🔨🤯🥽 📮 Digital Repository, Innovative Learning Environments, AR/VR and Metaverse, 3D Printing, Coding, AI, Robotics and using Games for STEM Education
- Unconscious Bias and Soft SkillsLearning focus: 🆕🤝👩🔬🎧🎓💡🤷♂️ The impact of unconscious bias and how to recognize and overcome…; 🆕🤝👩🔬🎧🎓💡 Hard Skills vs Soft Skills and how to Develop soft skills…. Lessons are preserved in source order (6 mapped).6
- 9.1🆕🤝👩🔬🎓💡🤷♂️ 📮 The impact of unconscious bias and how to recognize and overcome it.
- 9.2🆕🤝👩🔬🎓💡 📮 Hard Skills vs Soft Skills and how to Develop soft skills that can be applied to STEM careers
- 9.3🆕📐👩🔬💡 📮 Lecture: Design Is [Messy] Approaches to engaging with complexity
- 9.4⭐✍👩🔬👨🎓🎓🤦♂️🔑💡🤷♂️ 📮 How to introduce yourself and preparing for job interviews
- 9.5🆕🤝👩🔬🎓💡 📮 Interactive activities to help students recognize and overcome unconscious bias
- 9.6🆕👔👩🔬👨🎓🎓🤦♂️💡 📮 Negotiating salary and benefits: Asking for a raise can be intimidating, in particolar for women
- Women in STEM Challenges and Barriers – Role Models and TrailblazersLearning focus: 👩🔬🎧🎓💡🔬🚀🎤🅰 Barriers to STEM Participation for Young Women and Strategies for Supporting…; 🆕👩🔬🎧🎓💡🤷♂️ Impact of Stereotypes in Families, Gender Bias on Children, and Discrimination…. Lessons are preserved in source order (4 mapped).4
- 10.1🆕👩🔬🎓💡🤷♂️ 📮 Impact of Stereotypes in Families, Gender Bias on Children, and Discrimination in the Workplace
- 10.2🆕👩🔬 📮 Strategies for overcoming these barriers for Women in STEM and in the workplace
- 10.3🆕👩🔬🗽💡🎓 📮 Contributions and achievements of women in STEM & Space role models
- 10.4🆕👩🔬🙌💡🎓 Hands-On Activity: “Trailblazer Interview” presentation
- STEM Literacy Education for all – Start a club and NetworkingLearning focus: 🆕🔬👩🔬🎧 The importance of STEM literacy for all students, regardless of gender; 🆕🔬👩🔬🎧💡🎓 How to start a STEM Club, what to do, advantage, learn…. Lessons are preserved in source order (5 mapped).5
- 11.1🆕🔬👩🔬💡🎓 📮 How to start a STEM Club, what to do, advantage, learn from other by doing and networking
- 11.2🆕🔬👩🔬💡🎓💻🔗 📮 Start a club of Girls Who Code, an organization that empowers girls to pursue careers in STEM and aims to close the gender gap in technology
- 11.3🆕👔👨🎓👩🔬💡 📮 Understanding the importance of networking to connect students with professionals, business card and online connections
- 11.4🆕👔👨🎓👩🔬💡🎓🤦♂️ 📮 The benefits of internships and job shadowing and Women in STEM
- 11.5🆕🔍👨🎓👩🔬💡🎓🤦♂️🔑🔗 📮 Career exploration and the role it plays in finding a fulfilling career
- 🎓🚀 Aerospace Engineering in Europe and Rocketry ClubLearning focus: 🆕🚀🎓 Aerospace Universities in Europe; 🟢🚀🗺️ Map of Rocketry Team in Europe. Lessons are preserved in source order (3 mapped).3
- Career Paths in STEMLearning focus: 🆕💼👩🔬 🎧 Career opportunities and paths in STEM fields; 🆕💼👨🎓🎧 The career guidance and professional orientation experts figures. Lessons are preserved in source order (9 mapped).9
- 13.1🆕💼👨🎓 📮 The career guidance and professional orientation experts figures
- 13.2🔝💼👩🔬👨🎓💡🚌 📮 Preparing for Your Future Career: Industry Trends and Advice for Students
- 13.3🆕💼👩🔬🎓💡 📮 Support and resources for career development
- 13.4🆕💼👩🔬👨🎓🌍 📮 Who’s an Engineer? A map of Engineering
- 13.5🔝💼👩🔬👨🎓🎓🤦♂️💡 📮 The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the impact on Education and Career
- 13.6💼👩🔬👨🎓🎓🤦♂️ 📮 Continuous life-long learning and grow in the digital age
- 13.7🆕💼👩🔬👨🎓🎓🤦♂️🔍👔🔗 📮 Websites for finding a job: LinkedIn, Indeed and more
- 13.8🆕💼👩🔬🔲💡 📮 Women in STEM Roblox Careers in Software engineering designing, developing, and maintaining software applications
- 13.9🆕💼👩🔬👨🎓🔲💡 📮 Women in STEM Careers in YouTuber Content Creator and Roblox developer
- Economic Benefits of Increasing Representation of Women in STEMLearning focus: 🆕👩🔬🎧💡🎓 Women’s Economic Empowerment and Financial Independence; 🆕👩🔬🎧💡🎓 The positive impact on innovation and productivity of Women in STEM. Lessons are preserved in source order (3 mapped).3
- Support for Women in STEM and Next StepsLearning focus: 🆕👩🔬🎧💡 Resources and support for women in STEM, including organizations and initiatives; 🆕👩🔬💡🎓 Best practices for creating a more inclusive and equitable workplace culture,…. Lessons are preserved in source order (5 mapped).5
- 15.1🆕👩🔬💡 📮 Resources and support for women in STEM, including organizations and initiatives
- 15.2🆕👩🔬💡🎓 Best practices for creating a more inclusive and equitable workplace culture, including policies and practices that support work-life balance, equal pay, and career development for women.
- 15.3🆕👩🔬 Next steps for continuing the conversation about women in STEM
- 15.4🆕👩🔬💡 📮 Call to action for students, teachers, families, and companies to support women in STEM
- 15.5🟢👩🔬🎓💡 Survey Women in STEM and Space Tech – Close the gap!
- Resources for Teachers to Support STEM and Space EducationLearning focus: 🟢🎓👩🔬👷♂️🔬🧵🤖⚡💻📐🎲👽🔨🤯🥽🎧 Digital Repository, Innovative Learning Environments, AR/VR and Metaverse, 3D Printing, Coding,…; 🎓🔬💡 Resources for Teachers to Support STEM Learning in the Classroom. Lessons are preserved in source order (5 mapped).5
- 16.1🎓🔬💡 Resources for Teachers to Support STEM Learning in the Classroom
- 16.2🧵🍎🧮🔬🎨 STEM/STEAM Ideas and examples of 3D printing activities for physics, math, engineering, and technology
- 16.3🎓💡 📮 Fun STEM Activities for Students of All Ages
- 16.4🎓💡 📮 The Benefits of Extracurricular STEM Activities
- 16.5🟢🛸💡🔗🔑🔬🎨 📮 Colonizing Mars: build a Mars base and Terraforming it
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