Kummer Center for STEM Education

STEM Center to host over 600 students for Engineering Week

Posted by on January 22, 2024

The Kummer Center for STEM Education is hosting more than 600 middle and high school students from local K-12 schools on Thursday, Feb. 22, to celebrate Engineering Week. This day is designed to highlight all aspects of engineering offered at S&T.

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Help needed for S&T STEM Day

Posted by on October 26, 2023

The Kummer Center for STEM Education is hosting over 1,300 middle- and high-school students on campus on Wednesday, Nov. 8, for our largest on-campus event to date.

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Activities, volunteers needed for National STEM Day

Posted by on September 13, 2023

The Kummer Center for STEM Education brings roughly 1,000 middle and high school students to S&T for National STEM Day, Wednesday, Nov. 8. The center’s mission is to ignite the STEM spark in these students and show them what a future as a STEM professional could mean for them.

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Learn how Leland Melvin went from the end zone to outer space

Posted by on July 26, 2023

The Kummer Center for STEM Education invites you to the opening session of S&T’s Regional STEM Conference at 11 a.m. Monday, July 31. Leland Melvin, astronaut and renowned speaker, will share his story about the challenges he’s accepted and the opportunities he’s seized that led him from the NFL to the International Space Station.

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Missouri S&T rolls out the STEM Mobile

Posted by on May 4, 2023

The Kummer Center for STEM Education team celebrated this morning its new STEM Mobile with a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the Rolla Area Chamber of Commerce at the Carney Puck and Plaza. Children and teachers visiting from area schools posed for photos with the van before exploring the center’s inflatable planetarium on the Puck.  

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Volunteers needed for ‘May the 4th be with you’ event

Posted by on May 1, 2023

The Kummer Center for STEM Education is hosting students in kindergarten through fifth grade on campus for a space-themed STEM field trip. Around 350 people will visit campus this day, and volunteers are needed to help lead groups from activity to activity. If you can help, please fill out this online form.

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See the STEM mobile at ribbon-cutting May 4

Posted by on April 27, 2023

Join the Kummer Center for STEM Education at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 4, at the Carney Puck and Plaza as we celebrate the arrival of its STEM Mobile with a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the Rolla Area Chamber of Commerce.

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Stienbarger named ‘5 under 45’

Posted by on February 7, 2023

Amber Stienbarger, program director for summer camp operations in the Kummer Center for STEM Education, was named one of the Rolla Area Chamber of Commerce’s “5 Under 45” during the chamber’s annual awards banquet held Saturday, Jan. 28, in the Havener Center.

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Faculty honored for outstanding teaching, service, experiential learning

Posted by on January 3, 2023

Missouri S&T celebrated faculty excellence at an awards banquet Dec. 8 on campus.  Honorees include:

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Children, adolescents coming to campus for STEM Day Nov. 8

Posted by on November 3, 2022

Missouri S&T will host over 900 students in grades kindergarten-12 for a celebration of National STEM Day 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8.

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