We bring STEM directly to rural communities through free workshops, conferences, summer camps, and student showcases. Here’s where you’ll find us next.
Event 1: DesignSTEM Program
In May of 2026, PrimeSTEM had the privilege of designing and teaching our STEM activities to 625 students and 30 teachers at the virtual DesignSTEM conference, hosted by Purdue University’s Catalyst Center. Our lessons covered electronic circuits, microelectronics, Micro:bits, and block coding. Students engaged in hands-on activities and learned about the Engineering Design Process across 2 full days and 4 sessions. We are so proud to have impacted so many students and teachers from rural schools in Indiana. Some school corporations that we worked with were Lewis Cass, South Montgomery, Eastern Howard, Pioneer, Benton, Maconaquah, North White, Clinton Central, Tipton, Victory Christian Academy, Delphi, and Tri-County. You can find our lesson plans and presentation slides for the event in the Resources tab of our website!
Day 2 Session 1 of the May 2026 DesignSTEM conference.
Survey results from the May 2026 DesignSTEM conference:
Event 2: INSPIRE/SCALE K-12 Summer Programs
PrimeSTEM’s second signature event involves a long term collaboration with the INSPIRE/SCALE K-12 program at Purdue University, led by Dr. Morgan Hynes. Ediz has been designing and teaching activities at the INSPIRE summer camps over the last few years. • 2024: July 8-12 (Ages 8-10), July 15-19 (Ages 11-13). • 2025: July 7-11 (Ages 8-10), July 14-18 (Ages 11-13) • 2026: June 1-5 (Ages 6-8) Over the years, Ediz has taught over 100 K-12 students from rural areas at this summer camp. The main focus of Ediz’s activities are using Micro:bits for math and programming related challenges. For example, for the 2026 camp, during the course of five 8-hour days, Ediz’s STEM activities involved programming robots using Micro:bits and using Artificial Intelligence with Micro:bits to create interactive games. In addition, he also taught lessons involving circuits and electricity.
Students at the INSPIRE summer camp programming using Micro:bits
Event 3: Freedom School Summer 2026 STEM Program
Many thanks to Dr. Breanya Hogue for allowing Ediz to teach 30 3rd through 8th grade students at the Freedom School program in West Lafayette. On July 13th, we taught the students about electricity and circuits, their applications to microelectronics, and the overall importance of these concepts in the real world. Then, the students used LEDs, pipe cleaners, batteries, and popsicle sticks to make various types of closed and parallel circuits. The students were very creative, making things ranging from spiders with LED eyes to light-up swords. On July 16th, we taught the students about block coding, and its applications to the microelectronics concepts we discussed on July 13th. Using Micro:bits, we explained simple programming topics and were also able to build onto the concept of electricity. Then, the students completed a coding challenge involving creating digital name badges, random number generators, displaying icons, and writing messages using the Micro:bits.
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