Are you interested in science, technology, engineering, and math? Or just want an opportunity to try cool experiments and get free treats? STEM Club is the perfect place for you!

STEM Club meets every Friday at lunch in room 2232 and is one of Memorial’s biggest clubs. Past meeting activities have included making mocktails with Mr. Mawer, constructing gingerbread houses before winter break, and competing to build the tallest spaghetti and marshmallow towers. 

But don’t worry–every activity they do relates to a STEM topic. For example, members use math and ratios to make mocktails, and engineering to build stable gingerbread houses. 

They also do non-food related activities like making bath bombs, slime, and robotics, and often host guest speakers from UW-Madison and other local companies to provide Memorial students with opportunities for deeper STEM knowledge.

Outside of meetings, STEM Club spends a lot of time planning and hosting science fairs at elementary schools. They have organized successful science fairs at feeder elementary schools like Huegel, Glenn Stephens, and Crestwood, with hundreds of elementary students in attendance and volunteers from STEM Club and Spartan Youth Service. 

Having attended several of these events, I can say that the students and parents thoroughly enjoy their experiments, and pizza is sometimes provided for attendees. STEM Club advisor and Memorial physics teacher Tobias Jacoby added that he enjoys “support[ing] elementary school students in getting them excited about science.” These experiments usually include making ice cream, slime, bouncy balls, shrinking balloon animals, elephant toothpaste, oobleck, and even demonstrations of putting apples in liquid nitrogen and throwing them on the ground to watch them shatter. 

If trying new treats, building innovative contraptions, or volunteering at elementary school science fairs sounds interesting to you, consider stopping by a STEM Club meeting! Again, they meet every Friday in room 2232, and you can join their Google Classroom with the code gwcdgtj or follow their Instagram at @stemclub.vpm!