As of August, 2023, the Juneau STEM Coalition changed its name to the Juneau STEAM Coalition to better reflect our goals, beliefs and actions. You might still find a mixed bag of usage on our website. In addition to our newer email juneausteamcoalition@gmail.com and website juneausteam.org, the older ones (using ‘stem’ not ‘steam’) still work.
Make your plans now and join us!
Curiosity Unleashed 2026
A Community STEAM Event for K–6 Families
When: Monday March 16, 5:30 – 7:30
Where: Thunder Mountain Middle School
This year’s theme, Cycles and Spirals, Patterns and Process, highlights and connects learning as an iterative, spiraling process and the patterns and cycles found throughout nature and STEAM fields. All K-6 families are welcome. Kids and families move freely between stations, spending 5–30 minutes at activities that are interactive, easy to explain, and quick to enter. This event typically draws 500-800 attendees and features 50+ community-led activities.
Want to help? We are recruiting! Contact us if you would like to lead or help with an activity. Perhaps you would like to help before the event or just add extra hands at the event. We can always use you. Download our poster and spread the word.
Questions? Please contact us at JuneauSteamCoalition.org.
“Children who engage in scientific activities from an early age develop positive attitudes toward science, which also correlate with later science achievement, and they are more likely to pursue STEM expertise and careers later on.”
The Juneau STEM Coalition is a volunteer community group with the mission is to support Juneau to develop lifelong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) skills.
We are a diverse group of people under a loose “STEM” umbrella. We seek to effect incremental and transformational change within the Juneau School District. We want to support our students to be innovative, collaborative, empathetic, resourceful, and persistent now and as adults. We want them to struggle – in the best sense of the word – with challenging and intriguing projects that integrate in real and meaningful ways across the traditional academic disciplines and throughout the Juneau community. We want them to speak up for themselves and for others.
STEM education is associated with many beneficial qualities, including inquisitiveness, critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, grit, collaboration, and innovation.