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University of Vermont students will share these experiential science, technology, engineering and math activities with local youth on Nov. 7. Vermont students grades 3-9 who are (or who could be!) excited by science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can now sign up for the Fall 2026 STEM Showcase at the University of Vermont campus. It's scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

At a family science event in Hartford, a volunteer used salt-dough bones and modeling clay to show how cartilage protects joints. When she removed the “cartilage” and ground the bones together to simulate arthritis, one elementary school student exclaimed, “It’s like my grandpa!” Graduate students and Cena y Ciencias leaders Gabriela Soriano and Wendy Mok work with Burns Latino Elementary School students to create oobleck, a cornstarch-and-water mixture that resembles cartilage, at the 2025 outreach event, “Cartilage: Your Skeleton’s Best Friend!”

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.