STEM Immersion: Boston Tour 2022

First stop on all of our Boston arrival tours is a huge market perfect for souvenirs, Faneuil Hall! The Sam Adams statue stands tall in front and marks a great meeting point for our tour. Quincy Market is just behind Faneuil Hall and is filled with food stalls offering multiple different local options for dinner on arrival day. This statue is along the Freedom trail and marked the start of our afternoon sightseeing tour! For an inside look at all of the cool Boston sightseeing we did on the tour, check out the STEM Tour highlight reel on the NSHSS Instagram!

Early tour arrivals followed the Freedom Trail and had a chance to board and explore "Old Ironsides," the historical war ship that is still in commission!

A historic statue commemorating Paul Revere with the Old North Church behind him in which the famous "One if by land, two if by sea" signal is said to have been sent!

What a great view of Boston from the Boston Harbor!

When the Duck Boat drove into the river and turned our bus tour into a boat tour, several tour participants actually got a chance to drive the boat!

A chilly morning in Cambridge visiting Harvard University!

A morning visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History where students had free time to explore the endless number of life science exhibits!

This room had every animal you could ever think of!

An entire room wall-to-wall of geology! Every element of the periodic table and so many different gems and minerals from around the world!

Students had free time to explore all of the interactive exhibits in Boston's Museum of Science!

The Sun! There was a huge planetarium to explore!

There were so many awesome exhibits to explore!

Granary Burying ground is the site of many historical graves like Paul Revere, Sam Adams, John Hancock, and more!

While taking a ghost tour can certainly be spooky, the guide offered tons of historical facts and stories about landmarks we passed in Boston as well!

A quick morning walk on the way to our first STEM workshop! We visited the site of the start of the Revolutionary War and walked along Battle Road to see Paul Revere's capture point and some old homesteads!

After our first STEM workshop, students had some time to walk around the Charles River Esplanade and watch the windsurfers in the river!

What a beautiful day in Boston to walk around the esplanade! Laura hosted our social media takeover for the tour, so be sure to check out all of her behind the scenes tour pics and videos on the STEM tour highlight reel on the NSHSS Instagram!

Before our STEM workshop inside the Boch Center, we were able to tour the famous Wang Theater and even go backstage!

Students broke into groups to compete in a sound wave activity on the theater stage!

Taking a group pic on the stage! What a cool place to have all to ourselves!

We were able to go up to a 14th floor observation deck and take in the views of Boston and the Charles river before heading off to dinner and gaming at Bada Borg!

Students had a chance to interact with several robots at MassRobotics!

Teams worked together to assemble and program robots before testing them out!

Robotics in action! Students gave the robots a series of commands until ultimately they could battle it out with a ball!

We took a tour of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and made sure to stop for some souvenirs before heading to our lab on the MIT campus!

Students went inside the Koch Center for Integrated Cancer Research at MIT for a lesson on the center's research before participating in an experiment and visiting a real working lab!

We visited the Boston Waterworks Museum to explore old water pumping machinery and learn about all of the technological advancements over the years!

Students broke into small groups to put together their own water pumping systems!

Check out the water pump in action!

It was such a fun tour and a cool city to explore for the week!