GO STEM

GO STEM A regional STEM partnership serving Baker, Grant, Harney, Morrow, Umatilla, Union, and Wallowa counties.
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Last month at a STEM Night at Washington Elementary in Pendleton, students explored the world of 3D printing through han...
05/27/2026

Last month at a STEM Night at Washington Elementary in Pendleton, students explored the world of 3D printing through hands-on creativity with GO STEM! 💫

As students designed and built their own creations with 3D pens, they discovered how 3D printing can be used to imagine, prototype, and create entirely new things! ✨ This is STEAM in action: where the “A” for Art is just as important as science, technology, engineering, and math, as they all work together when applied in real world settings.

GO STEM is committed to expanding access to STEM and STEAM experiences by bringing hands-on learning directly to students in new places and new ways, across Eastern Oregon communities.

Pareidolia is the phenomenon of observing something that has a pattern or appearance that reminds one of something famil...
05/27/2026

Pareidolia is the phenomenon of observing something that has a pattern or appearance that reminds one of something familiar. A rock looks like the shape of an animal, a potato chip has the likeness of the face of Elvis, or a Mars surface looks like dragon scales. The Curiosity rover on Mars has taken photos of some rock surfaces that look much like dragon scales. These regular, geometric patterns have the texture and shape that immediately draw us to that assumption. Yet, astrobiologists have other ideas on what caused these intricate patterns on the surface of rocks. Geometric pattern of freeze-thaw cycles are common on Earth, so the working theory is that dragon scales are elaborate polygons created by erosion, water, freezing, thawing, and refreezing of the sediments before they solidified into rock. On the other hand, maybe this is just a dragon’s burial ground!

Learn more and see an up-close photo at: https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-found-strange-dragon-scale-rocks-on-mars-and-scientists-are-excited

🚀 Oregon educators: Join Technovation's Oregon Cohort, and help students learn how to become community problem-solvers w...
05/20/2026

🚀 Oregon educators: Join Technovation's Oregon Cohort, and help students learn how to become community problem-solvers with AI!

GO STEM is helping spread the word about the Technovation AI & Community Problem-Solving Pilot : an opportunity for Oregon educators in grades 3–12 to bring ethical AI and coding into classrooms, afterschool programs, and camps in a meaningful, community-centered way.

✨ The Details:
• Only 4–5 instructional hours total
• $500 educator stipend upon completion of the post survey

• Open to all subject areas and learning settings
• Includes a 1-hour virtual training + AI Mini Toolkit
• Only 1 device needed per team of 5 students

This is a low-lift, high-impact opportunity designed to help students use AI to explore and solve real-world community challenges.

📅 Interested educators or principals should complete the 1-minute interest form by June 1: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe314Fiq9fDm2-VpG6opBjKd08wP3qBT8QSZnNeOhpEevS_qg/viewform

Questions? Contact Luella at 📧 [email protected]

Julius Caesar described the Auroch millennia ago: “They are a little below the elephant in size and… their strength and ...
05/20/2026

Julius Caesar described the Auroch millennia ago: “They are a little below the elephant in size and… their strength and speed are extraordinary. They spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied." The Auroch is an extinct species of bovine (cow, buffalo, yak) family. These beefy beasts once were common in the forests of Europe until overhunting and disease eventually eliminated them from the biome. By 1630, efforts to save the Aurochs from extinction failed. In recent decades, the descendants of the aurochs, modern cattle breeds, have been selectively bred to bring out old traits. The tarous is a breed that has some of the same features of the ancient wonders. Why work to revive an extinct species: What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.iflscience.com/in-1627-a-polish-forest-saw-the-last-living-aurochs-in-the-world-at-least-for-now-83280

⏰ Reminder: GO STEM will be visiting Grant County tomorrow. Come say hi to our team! Join us for an evening meet-up to l...
05/18/2026

⏰ Reminder: GO STEM will be visiting Grant County tomorrow. Come say hi to our team!

Join us for an evening meet-up to learn more about GO STEM programming, connect with our team, and explore partnership opportunities across Grant County.

📍 1188 Brewing Co. | John Day
🕓 4:00 – 8:00 PM
🍴 Appetizers provided

We’d love to connect with educators, nonprofits, businesses, community organizations, and anyone interested in supporting STEM opportunities for Eastern Oregon students.

RSVP: https://bit.ly/GOSTEMGrantCounty

There are many places in the world where dinosaur trackways have been discovered. Dinosaurs roamed about, often along la...
05/18/2026

There are many places in the world where dinosaur trackways have been discovered. Dinosaurs roamed about, often along lake or river shores, and left imprints in the mud. These prints were then dried in the sun and covered by ash, silt, or flood. One very curious trackway has been discovered in South Korea that shows the land movement of a pterosaur, a flying dinosaur. Paleontologists are confident of this due to the distinctive toes of the foot and the size of the print. What makes this find even more tantalizing is that the track starts slowly, then turns a corner, and follows another trackway of a different animal. It is hard to know the kind of animal, but it seems it may be a much smaller lizard, amphibian, or crocodilian. Does this present evidence that some pterosaurs hunted on the ground? Were they the storks and herons of their day?

Learn more at: https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-footprints-suggest-a-flying-predator-was-chasing-prey-on-land

🐦🌿 Join GO STEM at the Ladd Marsh Bird Festival!This Saturday, May 16th: Bring the family out to Tule Lake Road at Ladd ...
05/12/2026

🐦🌿 Join GO STEM at the Ladd Marsh Bird Festival!

This Saturday, May 16th: Bring the family out to Tule Lake Road at Ladd Marsh for a morning of hands-on nature and STEM activities with GO STEM!

Kids can:
🦉 Dissect owl pellets
🔎 Participate in a scavenger hunt
🌱 Explore plant identification
🎉 Win prizes

PLUS: the first 20 kids to visit the Mobile Maker Lab table will receive a FREE GO STEM grab bag!

📍 Tule Lake Road, Ladd Marsh, in Union County, Oregon
🕙 Saturday, May 16: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Birding kits will also be available to borrow.

All ages welcome! We hope to see you there!

Last year, we reported on a marathon race where robots were encouraged to compete with humans. At the time, we chuckled ...
05/12/2026

Last year, we reported on a marathon race where robots were encouraged to compete with humans. At the time, we chuckled when many entrants overheated, fell over, lost their heads, or simply weren’t able to finish the race. This year, there were different results. While some of the robots were remotely controlled, the winning robot ran the course unassisted in 50 minutes. That is 7 minutes quicker than the world record for humans. What does this portend for the future of robots in our world? It is hard not to see a massive robot army like depicted in the Star Wars sequels. Somehow, robots running marathons are not as funny anymore.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-humanoid-robot-just-beat-the-human-world-record-for-the-fastest-half-marathon-during-a-race-in-china-180988599/

📍GO STEM is visiting Grant County next week!Join us the evening of Tuesday, May 19th for a meet-up in John Day to connec...
05/11/2026

📍GO STEM is visiting Grant County next week!

Join us the evening of Tuesday, May 19th for a meet-up in John Day to connect, learn more about GO STEM programming, and explore opportunities for partnership and collaboration across Grant County.

🕓 4:00 – 8:00 PM
📍 1188 Brewing Co.
🍴 Appetizers provided!

Whether you’re an educator, nonprofit, community organization, business, or simply interested in STEM opportunities for Eastern Oregon students, we’d love to connect with you.

RSVP here: https://bit.ly/GOSTEMGrantCounty

Baltic amber is the fossilized sap from a conifer tree that once grew in the forests of western Russia and the Baltic co...
05/11/2026

Baltic amber is the fossilized sap from a conifer tree that once grew in the forests of western Russia and the Baltic countries. The sticky sap attracted various creatures, including insects, arachnids, and small amphibians and reptiles. They became stuck and then covered over by more sap, entombed in the clear yellowish medium. Recently, a rather bizarre-looking harvestman arachnid was found in an amber specimen and deemed to be a new species. Entomologists are able to scan these trapped specimens with light microscopy and computed tomography. See the article for the super-detailed scans of these odd creatures!

Learn more at: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-strange-arachnid-trapped-in-amber-35-million-years-ago

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