STEM Fair

You and Your Students Can Volunteer at KDP Reading Fair and Family STEM Day (Feb. 26)

January 21, 2023

We are bringing back this annual event for the first time since February 2020, and we are so happy to be able to be in person again.

On February 26, 10 a.m.–1 p.m., we’ll be turning the Chiles Center into a learning center for kids (ages 1–12). KDP is organizing tables for literacy learning, and I’m organizing tables for STEM. We welcome faculty tables and student tables. If you’d like to host, or have your students host as part of a class project, or advise a club that might like to volunteer, please forward this email and encourage them to do so. In the past, we’ve had skeletons, plants, gravity projects, origami, etc., and we think about STEM broadly and hope that we have a variety of table activities for kids of all ages. This has been used as a class assignment, extra credit, or club activity, and it’s also something that folks participate in because it’s fun.

To sign up to host a table, please fill out this form.

Rumble in the Jungle: Reading and STEM Fair, Feb. 24

February 15, 2019

The University’s annual Reading Fair will take place on Sunday, February 24, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Chiles Center. “Rumble in the Jungle” will be a reading fair and family STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) day hosted by Kappa Delta Pi and the UP STEM Education and Outreach Center. The fair is freeand open to all children from preschool through 8th grade.

There will be crafts, a principal reading, hands on-experiments, and a robotics demonstration. In addition to these activities, there will also be fun games, and opportunities to win prizes. Students will leave the event with a free book and gift from both organizations as a thank-you for attending.

This is a new combined event you do not want to miss. If you have any questions, please reach out to Reading Fair chair Surabhi Joglekar (joglekar20@up.edu) or STEM director Stephanie Salomone (salomone@up.edu)). Please like the “University of Portland’s Reading Fair” FaceBook page for more updated information.

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