As you walk into the Beebe School library you see it filled to the brim with hundreds of kids, all gathered up around tables holding…Eggs?
STEMSeeds is a club at Malden High introduced by Junior Sophia Chen in her sophomore year. The club was built to “reach underfunded districts in the Malden district” and to “share a passion of STEM with a mix of community service” stated by Chen with Vice-President Yingyan Xia furthering, “we also wanted to engage more children in STEM activities because of our lack of science opportunities in our middle schools” with the club additionally offering potential for scholarships and other miscellaneous awards for aspiring members.
With many of the members having done multiple events like this before, STEMSeeds member Anum Munir described her most pleasant experience. “My most vivid memory was when the students started chanting ‘drop the egg’ while giggling and clapping. I could feel their energy. It made me more immersed in the activity”
With the officers in complete agreement with this, Vice-President Emma Yu how she believes “interacting with the kids in general gives you a fresh perspective.” “It’s a really good way to adapt to different environments,” Yu added.
This event was one of many to extend that passion and dream to Beebe school, with the students eventually taming the storm of middle schoolers, and expressing one question. “Would a protected egg break?” Then the students were assigned to design a protective outer layer for an egg, in hopes of dropping it at considerable heights without breaking it. The officers described the event’s objective to be to “learn about hypotheses and whether they were wrong or right”
Following the announcement, the kids quickly raced off and began to design their eggs, with all of the club members mentoring each table to advise and keep them on track. With the kids turning a fun spin on the event, beginning to name each of the eggs as they designed them. With names including Bob, George Washington, and Eggton, among many others.
Upon finishing their egg designs, the students gathered around as the mentors tested each of their egg designs from varying heights. Students cheered and cried out worry as each egg fell. With the height slowly shrinking after each drop, the students’ worries finally ended as the last egg fell.
As the event came to a close it was revealed that every egg survived the test! The members asked all of the students if their hypothesis was correct, with some being wrong or right.
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