STEM Day - Fall 2025

CCRI STEM Exploration Day

Friday, December 5, 2025
8:30am to 1pm
CCRI Knight Campus, Warwick

High school seniors are invited to see how health care, business, science and technolgy can lead to an exciting future.

  • There will be a lunch available for students at no
  • Busing is available on a first-come, first-served

Made possible by funding from Carl D. Perkins Career and Technology Education Act.

Choose any 3 hands-on labs!

  • Capture the Flag – Cybersecurity Heroes Wear Digital Capes 

     

    Cybersecurity is all around us. Learn how items or messages can be hidden in different pictures or websites.

  • Math

    Logic, Riddling, and Puzzling 

    Students will have the opportunity to think creatively by performing activities involving math logic, riddles, games, and puzzles.

  • EMS Rodeo 

     

    Students will be introduced to some of the real-life interventions in pre-hospital EMS by current students and EMS faculty.

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    Using Wind to Charge Your Phone 

     

    Wind Energy Fundamentals and Activities: Generator power measurement and testing in the Wind Tunnel. 

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    Automation and Beyond 

     

    Making keychain tabs for the students on the CNC milling machines.

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    The Design Sprint 

     

    Learn how designers “Build to Learn” when creating new product ideas. This lab includes hands-on, interactive exercises that are used to find solutions to design challenges. Highly interactive!

  • Mystery of the Crooked Cell A bank robbery, a drop of blood, and a genetic twist. Students use forensic techniques to solve a crime.

  • Harness the Wind, Harness the Sun 

    Look inside a wind turbine and a solar cell and find out how they produce energy. Students will use a solar cell to power a DC vibration motor, the same type of motor that vibrates your phone when it is on silent.

  • Under Pressure 

    Explore how pressure and temperature shape our world. Experiment with how low pressure affects every day phenomena in surprising ways.

  • Exploring Careers in the Clinical Lab

    Students will have the opportunity to perform simple, hands-on testing and observe demonstrations by our lab technicians showcasing daily clinical procedures.

  • Dwayne, Chris and Kid – which rock is which? 

    Guiding students through methods used to understand how to distinguish the three types of rocks.

  • Think Like A Designer 

    Jump into a high-energy, hands-on lab where you’ll learn how designers create and test new ideas. You’ll use the design process—empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and learn—to solve a real design challenge.
  • Shaping the Airstream: Coandă Effect, Magnus Effect, and Vortex Rings Students use curved surfaces, spinning balls, and a vortex cannon to see how air can be attached, bent, and structured, turning speed and shape into dramatic sideways forces and long-range momentum.
  • Your STEM Superpower: Applied in Nursing

    Discover how nurses apply biology, chemistry, tech, and critical thinking to tackle real-world health challenges and make a difference in their communities every single day.

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