Montgomery Community Media

The Curiosity Cube is a mobile science lab and it’s made its way throughout North America for the past couple of months, this week it made a pit stop in Montgomery County. At Forest Oak Middle School in Gaithersburg, students took part in interactive experiments which focused on the periodic table of elements. The cube […]

Careers in science, technology, engineering and math are on the rise, yet there are more opportunities than there are students to fill the positions. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has revealed that STEM careers are predicted to increase by 25 percent within the next few years. In an effort to expose students […]

There’s a mobile shipping container traveling around the country getting kids excited about science. “This is Millipore Sigma’s Curiosity Cube,” Rebecca Dowd, curiosity cube coordinator, said. “It’s a retrofitted shipping container that’s been turned into a mobile science lab […] to do hands on science experiments with students.” It’s all a part of Millipore Sigma’s goal […]