Asian American and Pacific Islander Month - celebrate people in STEM

• https://asianpacificheritage.gov
• Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center: https://smithsonianapa.org
• PBS AAPI History Spotlight: Saluting STEM Pioneers
• NASA Asian Pacific American Heritage

International Day of Light (May 16)

• UNESCO:The International Day of Light celebrates the role light plays in science, culture and art, education, and sustainable development, and in fields as diverse as medicine, communications, and energy; https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/dayoflight 
• NISE Network compilation of light activities and resources

National Week of Making (May 17-23)

• https://www.weekofmaking.org
• National of Makers resource library https://nationofmakers.us/resources.html
• Frankenstein200 kit of activities 

Museum Day (May 18)

• Search for a NISE Network partner museum and other informal science education partner near you: https://nisenet.org/partners

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) (May 20, 2021)

• https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/

World Environment Day (June 5)

• United Nations World Environment Day website
• World Environment Day
• SustainABLE kit

World Oceans Day (June 8)

• World Oceans Day
• Cleaning Oil Spills with Chemistry longer program
• Cleaning Our Water with Nanotechnology program
• The Water Race: Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces
• What’s Nano About Water?
• DragonflyTV - Water Clean Up video
• Why are Seashells so Strong? program
• Oil Spill Clean Up Simulation hands on activity
• explore this website by searching the topic: Earth and Space Science - Water and Oceans

International Women in Engineering Day (June 23)

• International Women in Engineering Day

Asteroid Day (June 30)

• Asteroid Day
• explore this website by searching the topic: Earth and Space Science

Plastic Free July 

• Plastic Free July

World Brain Day (July 22, 2021)

• World Brain Day
• World Federation of Neurology Brain day 
• resources from the Society for Neuroscience
• explore this website by searching for topic: Life Sciences - Human Body 
• explore this website by searching for topic: Life Sciences - Health and Medicine

National Sand Castle Day (first Saturday of August)

• Nano Sand hands-on activity

National Aviation Day (August 19)

• National Aviation Day
• NASA suggestions for National Aviation Day