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The Next Generation Science Standards have raised the level of interest in and importance of integrating engineering into elementary science curriculum, making engineering-based learning activities more commonplace than ever before in the primary grades.

The outreach team here at CHESS has been taking its show cross-country while the cold finally settles on the Northeast.

Hour of Code is a global movement that encourages students of all ages to try a one-hour introduction to computer science and the basics of coding through fun block tutorials.

Now into the fourth year of its JunkGenies programming, Xraise is paving the way when it comes to infusing engineering design practices into science outreach.

The second week in August was a busy and productive week at Cornell University. Students from throughout the region traveled to campus to spend two days creating, building, teaming, designing, reflecting, learning, touring, asking questions and being junior engineers as part of the Cornell Summer Science Snapshot program.

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is a non-invasive, non-destructive technique for elemental analysis utilized by scientists at CHESS and other institutions. 

Jasmine leans over an empty Fuji water bottle, cutting two half-dollar sized circles a few centimeters apart from one another. After placing convex lenses in each hole, she gingerly glues each lens into the circles using copious amounts of hot glue.

Undergraduate physics and chemistry students from throughout the country have come to CHESS to conduct cutting-edge research this summer.