Google STEMTour Kick Off

313 Greenhaven Drive Northwest,Lenoir NC 28645

11 March, 2023

Description

Google is teaming up with Betabox Learning, a leading provider of mobile STEM labs, to launch a STEM tour of North Carolina school districts. The tour will visit schools across the state and provide hands-on learning experiences for students in grades K-12. The tour will kick off on March 11 with a public event at the MLK Center in Lenoir, NC–home of Google’s NC-based data center. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and include free food from area food trucks (for the first 300 attendees), as well as other activities for the whole family. BACKGROUND The STEM Tour will be held in communities across North Carolina with the hopes to inspire students in STEM via innovative educational programs and experiences. Google has engaged Betabox, a NC-based company that will bring hands-on learning experience to K12 schools via their onsite field trips that are based in a mobile box about the size of a rail container. Betabox will design, operate, and evaluate the program that will begin in March 2023.