Outreach: K – 12

The CUA regularly both runs and participates in outside events aimed at a K-12 audience. The majority of these events are open to all students, and aimed at local, Boston-area students and their families.  Our graduate students and postdocs enjoy participating in local science fares, speaking to school classes, and hosting students to hear about our research and view the labs.

Past Events

Sat June 28, 2025 12:00 am
Location:Harvard University
Youqi Gang, Harvard
Michal Szurek, Harvard
Haley Nguyen, Harvard
Anant Kale, Harvard
Anna Knörr , Harvard
Yi Zhu, Harvard
Esther Wang, Harvard
Mumtaz Gababa, Harvard
Wolfgang Ketterle (Ketterle group), Carter Turnbaugh (Zwierlein), and Mumtaz Gababa (Yelin) gave talks on their research. Arian Jadbabaie (Garcia-Ruiz) and Annika Lunstad (Doyle) demonstrated superconductivity. Youqi Gang (Greiner) and Michal Szurek (Greiner) set up a hologram-making apparatus. Haley Nguyen and Bob Bao (Semeghini) explained resonances. Anant Kale (Greiner) and Anna Knorr (Yelin) presented a spectroscopy...
Fri October 25, 2024 9:00 am
Location:UP Academies, Dorchester
Michal Szurek, Harvard
Alex Deters, Harvard
Annie Zhi, Harvard
Spark is the day of STEM at UP Academies, hosted at one of UP’s schools in Dorchester. Students across UP academies spend the day learning about STEM subjects and careers. The goal is to bring hands-on immersive STEM experiences to the students to spark joy, excitement and wonder for STEM learning and career pathways. CUA provided...
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Mon July 8, 2024 12:00 am
Jonah Peter, Harvard
Jonah Peter (Yelin Group) taught a lecture at MIT BWSI summer school to 38 high school students about quantum computing/quantum machine learning. The MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI) is a challenging and prestigious STEM program designed for high-achieving students entering their senior year of high school. This intensive four-week program focuses on STEM skill...
Mon June 24, 2024 12:00 am
The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) welcomes 100 top achieving U.S. high school and international scholars to CEE’s forty-first annual Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “The Research Science Institute offers top academic math and science students the opportunity to experience graduate-level research and camaraderie with...
Fri September 1, 2023 12:00 am
Oriol Rubies Bigorda (Yelin Group) assisted in online tutoring for Cambridge schools in the 2023-2024 academic year as part of the “Cambridge School Volunteers”, targeting low-income, social-minority background students.