Award Winning STEM Outreach
Our summer camps provide week-long, standards-based experiences for 2,000 youth per year in grades 3-10. All camps are taught by Nebraska certified teachers.
The planetarium utilizes an innovative and nationally-recognized "Interactive Immersion" model to provide STEM experiences to 12,000 visitors per year.
The Nebraska Science Olympiad runs a series of STEM competitions and supports over 90 teams and 1,400 middle and high school students per year.
Undergraduate students bring standards-based STEM activities to K-8th graders, impacting more than 8,000 kids and 200 undergraduates.
Outreach Programming as Research Infrastructure
Our outreach programming serves as sandboxes for innovations in K-12 STEM education research and broad-impacts infrastructure for UNO faculty. Disciplinary and education researchers create, pilot, refine, and assess innovations, with programs also serving as recruitment, retention, and service-learning tools for UNO STEM majors.