Stories - STEMarts lab

Thank you Encantado Foundation!

STEMarts Lab would like to send a Very Large Thank You to The Encantado Foundation! Their support makes possible field trips like this where we took our 2023 Apprentice cohort to the Very Large Array for a private tour coordinated by STEAM Manager, Summer Ash. On the way we stopped at the Q Station where…

July 17, 2023
Cosmic Ray Workshop@Q Station

Quarknet members, Shane Wood and Nat Unterman, set up a station for STEAM Night at the Balloon Museum.

July 17, 2023
FEMeeting Taos

FEMeeting is coming to Taos! The international conference for women in art, science and technology is taking place July 24-30, 2023. Launched in 2017, the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” was driven by the desire to develop and promote more direct collaboration between individuals who identify themselves as Women, independently of their sex. The…

June 9, 2023
VR Station@Invent Event

Congrats to the STEMarts Apprentices for amazing work running the VR Station at Twirl Taos‘s Invent Event for Earth Day April 22, 2023. Alyson Martinez: Apprentice Mentor and VR station coordinator set up the station on her own and coordinated all the apprentices: Serina Martinez, Sirena Quezada, Claire Legate, Sophia Bates, Destiny Jaramillo, Feliciana…

April 28, 2023
Explore Space thru VR

STEMarts Teen Bootcamp@HIVE Our pilot STEMarts Teen Bootcamp took place at UNM-Taos HIVE on February 18, 2023 and was a huge success. Twelve students between the ages of 13 and 19 attended. Students were visited by Avatar Astrophysicist, Dr. Andrea Albert to learn about dark matter and to ask questions about the universe. Bryce Kennedy,…

February 21, 2023
Space Bear

September 16, 2022. Congratulations to all the collaborators that made possible the ‘Space Bear’ installation at the Imagine Children’s Museum for The PASEO Festival. Special thanks to: Tracy Jaramillo and Taylor Etchemendy for inviting STEMarts Lab to work with the Imagine staff, and to the artists, Amy Pilling and Pneuhaus. STEMarts Apprentices, Megan Odom and…

February 16, 2023
STEMarts Bootcamps@UNM-HIVE

Starting in January we will begin a series of four hands-on STEMarts Bootcamps designed to introduce participants to science concepts about the universe and exciting new digital technologies that allow us to reimagine our relationship to earth and space through our unique and diverse perspectives. The STEMarts Bootcamp is a full day in-person workshop sponsored…

January 2, 2023
Space Messengers international youth exchange: Guadalajara- Santa Fe

Congratulations to the 65 students and 6 teachers that completed the artist-led Space Messengers 7-week spring virtual workshop connecting a classroom in Guadalajara with two classrooms in Santa Fe. Students explored the universe through guest speakers in the fields of particle physics, astrophysics, space law, Lakota cosmology, media arts and philosophy. Teachers implemented our space-themed…

June 7, 2022
ESSS in Oeiras, Portugal receive VR Training for Space Messengers

As part of the SAP Lab Residency organized by SAP Lab Director, Dr. Catarina Pombo Nabais, at the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Science. Agnes Chavez, STEMarts Lab founder, visited Escola Secundaria Sebastiao e Silva in Oeiras Portugal to start training students in VR technologies. This group of 25 7th-12th graders included students that…

June 4, 2022
Artist Talk: Empowering Youth through Art, Science & Technology

As part of my Artist Residency at the SAP (science, art, philosophy) Lab at the University of Lisbon Philosophy of Science, I am doing a series of presentations to share my research and work. Yesterday I presented to computer science students and members of the public. Thank you to Dr. Catarina Pombo Nabais, SAP Lab…

May 26, 2022