The New York Historical Society hosted An Evening with David Copperfield on Saturday June 16th where the world-renowned magician shared his thoughts on the history and purpose of magic and illusion. This special talk kicked off the museum’s new exhibit,…
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This spring has been another STEM-tastic season for Kids Need Enrichment. Last month we organized and ran 2 STEM Nights at local elementary schools and we just did 4 workshops at the local public library! The 2 STEM Nights were…
A new activity at this year's STEM events is Alka Seltzer Rockets. This is a fun way to learn about about chemistry and see Newton's 3rd Law of Motion in action! The supplies are simple: Alka Seltzer tablets Film canisters…
Although we took a bit of a break from sending out the KNE Newsletter, we were busy putting together lots of STEM-tastic things for our community including a new Science Olympiad team, more STEM Nights, and STEM workshops. When Erika…
Ice cream making was a fun way to combine science and a tasty treat at some of this year's STEM events. You can see and learn about chemistry and celebrate what you've learned at the end by eating ice cream!…
Building and testing a tabletop hovercraft has been a big hit at our STEM events. You can easily build and test one at home to see and learn about how cushions of air enable things to float and hover. You…
Binary Bracelets is a terrific STEM event activity from Code.org that combines an introduction to binary and a fun craft. Binary is a method to represent information with only 2 options - on and off. A regular light switch is an…
One of our most popular STEM Night activities was slime making where kids learned how to make slime and got to take some home. Most of the supplies for this chemistry activity are common items that you might already have…
After driving for a couple of hours, crawling under a barbed wire fence, walking about a quarter of a mile through muddy, bee-infested ground, and stepping over cacti, there it was, Waurika Pond. This wasn't your average pond, of course. Waurika…
It's been a busy winter and spring at KNE! We built on last year's momentum where close to 100 kids and adults took the KNE Challenge at our STEM Nights, STEM Talk, and other STEM-tastic events. Based on last year's success with…
