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If you are looking for some great resources to get your kids inspired in STEM and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math), check out the information below and be sure to review our own list of resources as well. 

With the big push for STEM education, Iridescent, an education non-profit has been forging ahead with great free virtual curriculum. It trains "professional engineers, scientists, and parents to deliver cutting-edge STEM education to underserved children and their families." Its mission is to “create and deliver powerful science, engineering and technology education to help underprivileged children develop. It offers a wide array of learning platforms: Family Science, Curiosity Machine, Technovation Challenge, Scientists and Engineers’ Outreach, and Studio Programs. While the focus is on STEM, most activities lend themselves well to STEAM, since art and creativity are such a vital part of the inventive and planning processes.

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Let me clarify, watching the video by BBC Brit is the only way you should create a big bang with chemistry, unless you are a chemist who has the proper knowledge and the facilities to do so safely. BBC Brit has delivered an exceptional, educational tool in this video in which you virtually participate in making some big bangs!

This may well be "the most awesome INTERACTIVE science experiment on the internet", as the host of BBC Brit proclaims. Your challenge is to pick two reagents of the eight listed that will give you the "biggest bang!" You choose the combination and then watch as the reaction unfolds. You can keep trying again and again until, at last, you have achieved the "biggest bang." 

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MX3D, a Dutch robot company is teaming up with Autodesk to 3D print a steel bridge over one of the oldest canals in the center of Amsterdam. The plan is to literally print it from each side of the bank and meet at the mid point over the water. This bridge will demonstrate how 3D printing can meet the needs of large-scale projects while using sustainable materials.

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This summer Google is offering a FREE camp for kids that is designed to get kids outside to explore and experiment with fun science activities. It starts on July 13, 2015, and runs 4 weeks, but if you have a conflict with dates, don't worry because you can do it whenever it is convenient to you. It is open to anyone who wants to participate anywhere around the world. Though it is designed for kids ages 7-10, kids of any age can participate with supervision. Any activity can be modified for younger or older kids. Your kids can learn about the oceans, space, nature, and music.

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After many years of complaints, Amsterdam has found a solution to its runway noise that was affecting many neighborhoods up to 18 miles away. The clever designed park adjacent to the airport was crafted to deflect the sound as it travels outward. It had been discovered that this type of design might work after observing that there had been seasonal improvements in the noise levels when the fields were plowed in furrows. Taking this model into consideration, the architect decided to make the fix an artistic piece as well, by also modeling after 17th century Chladni patterns. (Ernst Chladni was a German physicist and a musician who is sometimes referred to the "father of acoustics.") 

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