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STEM News Tip: NASA STEM Stars Program

NASA STEM Stars is a NASA-produced web video chat series featuring a variety of space scientists and professionals introducing their areas of study and careers to a secondary school audience. The past videos are archived on YouTube, and can be a useful resource for a variety of educational purposes.

 The next upcoming chat will be on June 30 with satellite engineer Kenny Harris, who will discuss his work on the James Webb Space Telescope and other space science projects.

 

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  1. STEM News Tip: Scientific American on the Future of Particle Physics
  2. Demonstration Highlight: Astro Blaster
  3. STEM News Tip: AIP TEAM-UP Webinar With Dr. Jami V Miller & Prof Kelly Nash
  4. Demonstrations Highlight: Lenz's Law
  5. STEM News Tip: NASA EPDC Outreach Programs
  6. STEM News Tip: Earth Observation Hackathon
  7. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Prof. Manuel Franco Sevilla
  8. Demonstration Highlight: Inertia of a Lead Brick
  9. STEM News Tip: #BlackInAstro Week 2021
  10. STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
  11. Demonstration Highlight: Laser Waterfall
  12. Celebrating the birthday of Chien-Shiung Wu
  13. Demonstration Highlight: Cosmic Ray Detector
  14. STEM News Tip: Eclipse Season
  15. STEM News Tip: Non-Newtonian Fluids for Cookout Season
  16. Happy Graduation!
  17. Demonstration Highlight: Coănda Effect
  18. STEM News Tip: Raman Spectroscopy for COVID-19 Testing
  19. STEM News Tip: NMAAHC on Experiences of African Americans in STEM
  20. STEM News Tip: Physics Today features classic article on computers in physics education
  21. Demonstration Highlight: Diffusion Distribution Models
  22. STEM News Tip: APS Begins Public Engagement Webinar Series
  23. STEM News Tip: KiNET-X Experiment Launches from Wallops Tonight
  24. Demonstration Highlight: Projectile Motion - Pellet and Falling Target
  25. UMD Physics Summer Programs 2021
  26. STEM News Tip: Prof. Buonanno elected to NAS
  27. Demonstration Highlight: Hill Track
  28. STEM News Tip: Physics Today interviews Shirley Ann Jackson
  29. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Rings
  30. STEM News Tip: Earth Day 2021
  31. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  32. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  33. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  34. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  35. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  36. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  37. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  38. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  39. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  40. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  41. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  42. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  43. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  44. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  45. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
  46. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  47. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  48. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  49. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  50. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  51. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  52. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  53. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  54. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  55. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  56. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  57. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  58. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  59. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  60. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  61. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  62. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  63. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  64. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  65. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  66. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  67. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  68. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  69. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  70. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  71. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  72. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  73. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  74. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  75. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  76. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  77. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  78. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  79. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  80. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  81. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  82. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  83. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  84. The Physics of Bats
  85. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  86. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  87. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  88. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  89. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  90. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  91. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  92. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  93. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  94. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  95. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  96. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  97. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  98. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  99. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  100. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  101. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  102. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  103. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  104. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  105. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  106. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  107. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  108. Remote Teaching Resources
  109. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  110. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  111. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  112. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  113. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  114. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  115. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  116. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  117. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  118. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  119. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  120. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  121. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  122. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  123. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  124. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  125. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  126. How many demonstrations?
  127. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  128. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  129. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  130. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  131. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  132. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  133. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  134. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  135. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  136. Welcome to Spring 2020
  137. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  138. A Heated Discussion In Class
  139. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  140. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  141. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  142. FLIGHT!
  143. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  144. Hot Air Balloon
  145. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  146. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  147. Summer Hiatus
  148. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  149. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  150. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  151. Teatime in Physics
  152. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  153. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  154. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  155. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  156. New Portable Ripple Tank
  157. Irene Joliot-Curie
  158. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  159. Falling into Free Fall
  160. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  161. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  162. Welcome!