STEM Education
The Children's Gift Foundation aims to create educational opportunities for children of all backgrounds. We believe that exposing students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) subjects at early ages is essential to helping them develop lifelong skills. As a result, our foundation has created the Kids Who Cube program to demonstrate how STEM is relevant to students both inside and outside of the classroom.
The three Kids Who Cube events that have taken place thus far, occurred on October 13, 2017 and November 17, 2017. We invited an Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning Software Engineer to speak alongside our Executive Director to more than 500 students at Longfellow Elementary School, Stevens Forest Elementary School, and D.C. Stanton Elementary School. Our guest speaker, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate, shared what he does as an engineer, solved a 3x3 Rubik's Cube in under twenty seconds, and described what an algorithm is. Our team designed the program to teach students various math concepts, such as the Fibonacci sequence, and we demonstrated how math is found in everyday places. Later, we added a Chemistry Corner to our initiative to highlight interesting chemistry facts. Our STEM Education Initiative encourages youth to engage with math and science in creative ways, while teaching learners that STEM is FUN!
The three Kids Who Cube events that have taken place thus far, occurred on October 13, 2017 and November 17, 2017. We invited an Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning Software Engineer to speak alongside our Executive Director to more than 500 students at Longfellow Elementary School, Stevens Forest Elementary School, and D.C. Stanton Elementary School. Our guest speaker, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate, shared what he does as an engineer, solved a 3x3 Rubik's Cube in under twenty seconds, and described what an algorithm is. Our team designed the program to teach students various math concepts, such as the Fibonacci sequence, and we demonstrated how math is found in everyday places. Later, we added a Chemistry Corner to our initiative to highlight interesting chemistry facts. Our STEM Education Initiative encourages youth to engage with math and science in creative ways, while teaching learners that STEM is FUN!
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Online Learning Resources
Code.org
Codecademy
CS Unplugged
Khan Academy
NASA Climate Kids
Resilient Coders
Scratch/ ScratchJr
Tinkercad
Tynker
W3Schools
Codecademy
CS Unplugged
Khan Academy
NASA Climate Kids
Resilient Coders
Scratch/ ScratchJr
Tinkercad
Tynker
W3Schools
