STEAM Newsletter: Inventors, Inventions, and Innovation!

STEAM Newsletter
Stephanie Porter in the lab

During the month of May, the Million Girls Moonshot and all of its partners celebrate Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (AAPI Heritage Month). Our country owes a lot of our success to many hardworking, innovative AAPI computer scientists, engineers, and other STEM professionals!

Help celebrate these amazing contributions by incorporating these resources surrounding invention and innovation into the classroom this month and beyond:

To learn more about Million Girls Moonshot and their vision, you can visit their website

In This Newsletter:

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Survey: Let’s show the nation how CA does STEM in afterschool!
Deadline: Thursday, June 30, 2022

Every state is asking afterschool and summer programs to share more about how they do STEM. Please join this important effort! Your answers will help Million Girls Moonshot better understand how they can best support afterschool and summer programs statewide. The survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete. 

Everyone who responds will be entered into a drawing to win one of ten $100 Visa gift cards.

Click here to take the survey!

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Mizzen by Mott

The Mizzen By Mott app delivers inspiring and engaging activities that spark learning in young people. Supported by the Mott Foundation, Mizzen is available at no cost to afterschool professionals! Encourage partners to download the Mizzen By Mott app to access STEM activities at your finger-touch! 

Featured Activities & Playlists

  • Playlist: STEM Activities for K-5th Grade in Small Groups – This playlist is a great mix of engineering and science activities that are easy and fun for small groups of students.
  • Playlist: Science Notebooks for 3rd – 12th Grade – Keeping a notebook can help your students think and act like scientists and engineers. Sample these easy-to-implement strategies and lessons to bring science notebooking into your program.
  • Module: S.INQ Up Earth and Space for 6-8th Grade – Earth and Space is an inquiry and exploration-based curriculum that uses hands-on activities focused on the relationships between the earth, the solar system, and human impacts on our global environment.