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STEM Days: Professional Development for Educators & Field Trips for Middle and High School Students

Students engaged in a STEM activity
Teachers engaged in a STEM activity
Teachers engaged in a STEM activity
Bring Your Middle or High School Students to Experience the Thrill of STEM in Action!

 

Your students will (you will choose a track):
 

  • Engage in engineering challenges using real tools and materials in our state-of-the-art makerspace
  • Innovate and build a take-home engineering product
  • Become immersed in hands-on engineering and design practices, resulting in the innovation of a product to take home
  • Develop coding and computational thinking skills
  • Be inspired by a vibrant learning environment in the heart of NYC. It’s more than a field trip—it’s a launchpad
    for future engineers, designers, and innovators 

                            Registration Required. Email stem@cooper.edu to learn more.

 

Teacher Professional Development (During the School Day!)

 

Educators are empowered with hands-on STEM professional development sessions designed to strengthen teaching in:

  • Coding & Computational Thinking
  • Engineering Design Practices
  • Makerspace & Creative Technologies

Benefits To You
  • Led by Cooper Union experts, these workshops are crafted for immediate classroom or STEM club integration. Teachers leave with tools, strategies, and inspiration to take STEM learning to the next level.
  • Flexible in-school scheduling
  • Engaging, practical, and standards-aligned
  • We offer these sessions within a 2-4 hour session, curated to your objectives: 

                             Registration Required. Email stem@cooper.edu to learn more

 

 

In our state-of-the-art Makerspace, school leaders and educators can now customize their STEM Days experience at The Cooper Union by choosing from one of three exciting tracks: coding and computational thinking, engineering and design, or 3D design and fabrication. After selecting a track, we will meet with you to conduct a needs analysis and establish learning objectives, then curate engaging 3–4 hour sessions tailored to meet the needs of your teachers or students.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.