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STEMarts Bootcamp Series 2025
Designing Futures with AI! This year’s STEMarts Bootcamp series is all about diving into the exciting science behind particle physics, astrophysics, space exploration, and artificial intelligence. It’s your chance to explore how our universe works, how AI can help us create and imagine, and how everything is connected.
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Free Google Code Next: Creative Coding Workshop in Taos
STEMarts Lab is honored to announce that it has been selected as a recipient of a grant and designation as a Google Code Next Affiliate for the next three years. This honor underscores our commitment to providing equitable and innovative STEAM education by integrating art, science, and technology to inspire the next generation of creative…
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Hiring! Paid space Youth Internships
STEMarts Lab is offering paid internship opportunities for Taos students ages 17-24 to join our STEAM Youth in Space program (Taos Chapter) as assistants and creators. Students will work with STEMarts team of artists and scientists to help with development of the curriculum and design of the ‘place-based space’ multimedia projects such as space tours…
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Bootcamp#5: Discover SPACE[AR]T in the Sky@PASEO
STEMarts Lab just completed its 5th bootcamp for 2024 thanks to a unique partnership with UNM Taos HIVE. Each Bootcamp brings together the students that have joined as apprentices and ambassadors and welcomes new students to participate in exciting sci-art tech projects. STEMarts Bootcamps are all about learning from scientists and creating with artists to…
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Apprentice Field Trip To SpacePort
As part of the STEMarts Apprenticeship program for girls from Northern New Mexico, we do an annual STEM field trip. This year we were invited for a private tour to the Spaceport in Truth or Consequences. Jamila Gilbert, a member of Virgin Galactic’s comms team and one of their astronauts, conducted a presentation followed by science…
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Los Alamos ScienceFest 2024
STEMarts Lab is thrilled to have partnered with Los Alamos Mainstreet and the SALA Event Center to bring our virtual and augmented reality (AR) experiences to the Los Alamos ScienceFest this year. We presented an Augmented Reality Sky Hunt at Ashley Pond and a VR live painting session at SALA. Our STEMarts Ambassadors were part…
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Invent Event a success!
Shout out to Twirl Playspace for another fun and successful Invent Event! STEMarts Lab hosted an interactive VR station led by STEMarts Ambassadors. This year’s cohort of new apprentices underwent thorough training in virtual reality (VR) apps and learned how to guide participants in donning VR headsets and creating immersive 3D art using Tiltbrush. It…
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Savannah Romero steps up as Research Assistant
Savannah Romero, alongside five other winners from Northern New Mexico, clinched the STEMarts Apprenticeship award this year. Since January, apprentices have delved into various fields, including new media arts, XR technologies, 3D modeling, particle physics, astrophysics, and space science. A key objective of the program is for each apprentice to identify an area of interest…
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Getting Ready!
We are gearing up for the VR Live Painting station at Invent Event! Artist, Izumi Yokoyama and the STEMarts Ambassadors rehearsed at UNM Taos HIVE on Saturday. We are all looking forward to sharing the virtual reality experience with the Invent Event kids!
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Jacob Torres, Space Botanist@Taos Community Foundation
STEMarts Lab is thrilled to be partnering with TCA to curate a space-themed Science on the Screen evening. Space Botanist, Jacob Pepperseed Torres, is a native Northern New Mexican from Española who worked with the NASA plant science team to grow NM Chile in space during Plant Habitat (PH)-04. In discussing a movie to complement…