An Immersive STEM Portal, anchored by the award-winning annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

Students learn which parts of their brain help them learn and remember.

Discover the aerodynamics of golf balls as students work in teams to evaluate the physics and engineering used in sports equipment design.

Students conduct a series of demonstrations that illustrate the science behind how sound is made and heard.

Students learn about the anatomy of an egg and how egg proteins change when they are heated, beaten, or mixed with other ingredients.

Students make a simple but strong structure from tubes made from rolled up newspaper.

Students discuss deforestation’s impact on land, water, air, and other living things and design eco-friendly community models.

Students make a rudimentary light reflectivity tester to help them determine the relative reflectivity of various materials around the classroom.

Students explore different items that can be recycled and observe and compare the differences between various paper products.

Students investigate basic science principles involved in different types of collisions, from a bat hitting a baseball to a car crash.

Students work in groups to explore the properties of Post-it® Notes and determine the amount of force required to pull them across a plane.

Students work together to come up with an inventive solution for homemade glue.

Students imagine and design greener transportation solutions for their families.

Students measure, record and graph the frictional force between a block of wood and 3M™ Sandpaper.

Students discover the negative effects oil spills can have on animals and the environment, as well as, helpful information on how to lessen these effects.

Students identify innovations at their school that have been created to help people or solve specific problems.

Students gain a foundational understanding of light by studying how it interacts with different objects.

Students examine the effect of ear protectors on sound level reduction.

Students investigate the absorption and reflection of solar energy by the top surface of a simple model house by collecting and analyzing actual temperature data.

Students explore how knowledge of the properties of objects (mainly size) can be useful for separating mixtures.