Office of STEM Engagement

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The Rice Office of STEM Engagement (R-STEM) supports and promotes Rice University's wide-ranging efforts to improve K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in all Greater Houston Area school districts. We are proud to serve as the central point of contact for school districts, parents, students, nonprofit organizations, university faculty, and others in the Greater Houston Area regarding various STEM outreach programs and events at Rice.

 

 

DHTaking STEM education further: Rice expands low-cost health care solutions workshops for local teens

Students from the Digital Health Young Scholars program, returned to campus this fall with an exclusive invite to take part in the Innovator Spotlight workshop.
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SLRice engages young minds with STEM-focused summer camps

STEM-letics, a weeklong day camps for third, fourth and fifth grade students; designed to keep students both mentally and physically active during the summer break.
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EPARice working with nonprofit to develop next generation of environmental justice advocates

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation will partner with Rice University’s Office of STEM Engagement.
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ARCSummer Program Prepares Under-served High School Students for Careers in Architecture

The Rice Architecture Summer Immersion program provides academic guidance to underserved high school students from the Houston community.
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NANONanoAcademy Workshops Spark Interest in Young Learners

Close to 200 Houston-area students attended a series of NanoAcademy workshops on Feb. 3rd and 10th that were designed to bring innovative, cutting-edge research directly into their hands.
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AMPAMPosium! draws big crowd at BRC

Rice University’s Office of STEM Engagement and ConocoPhillips welcomed 150 past and current participants in the ConocoPhillips Applied Math Program (AMP!) to AMPosium! March 25 at the BioScience Research Collaborative. 
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BLKBlack girls benefit most when STEM teachers train up

When middle and high school teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics pursue continuing professional development, their students benefit, and a new study from Rice University shows the payoff can be dramatic.
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An Analysis of the Effect of Long-Term Professional Development on Teacher Engineering Self-Efficacy and Its Impact on Classroom Instruction

How R-STEM's NEWT NEET course impacts teachers' self-efficacy.
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VRTVirtual toolbox jumpstarts Rice STEM programs online

The Rice Office of STEM Engagement has added a virtual platform, making STEM education more accessible.
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CARA STEM solution for educational disparity

The educational need in Houston is great, but R-STEM and Carolyn Nichol are doing their best to help solve the problem.
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OUR REACH

R-STEM strives to provide quality professional development to K–12 STEM teachers in the greater Houston area. Since 2006, R-STEM has increasingly grown its program base and teaching staff to allow us to serve more teachers and students, and to continually broaden the greater impacts of STEM education as an integral part of K–12 education.

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Contact Information

Telephone: (713) 348-8211
Fax: (713) 348-3825
stem@rice.edu

Mailing Address

Office of STEM Engagement
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892, MS-7836
Houston, TX 77251-1892

Street Address

IBC Plaza Houston
5615 Kirby Dr., Suite 730
Houston, TX 77005-2445