PAST EVENTS
Family STEM Day, 2026
The Brian S. McCarthy Memorial Foundation held its second annual Family STEM Day on May 16, 2025 at Nashua High School South in Nashua, NH. This year saw the incorporation of the Planetarium at Nashua South, a crowd favorite that was standing room only for each show! We had plenty of other demonstrations and interactive hands on activities to engage in STEM Learning from Safe Solar viewing with the New Hampshire Astronomical Society, the Boston Dynamics famous "robot dog" from Spark Academy, FIRST Robotics, Nitrogen Ice Cream demonstrations, and the always popular Tesla Coil from Xplploration. Attendees were able to enjoy some sweet cake pops, a free photo booth, and swag bags! With nearly 40 organizations participating with 40 demonstrations, we once again drew 1,000 students young and old! Thank you to our Planetarium Sponsor, Harvey Construction, and our STEM Enthusiast Sponsors, Paisner Dental Associates, Prunier and Prolman PLLC, Rockland Trust, and World Academy. Photography is by Allegra K. Boverman, Katie Brindley, and Chris Boncoddo of Realm Of Media Possibilities LLC
Family STEM Day, 2025
To celebrate Five years of giving back to the Community, the Brian S. McCarthy Memorial Foundation held its inaugural Family STEM Day on May 17, 2025 at World Academy in Nashua, NH. Students and Parents alike came together to learn about Astronomy, HAM Radio, Aviation, Sea Creatures, Engineering, Electricity, Fire Science, and more through interactive hands-on exhibits, demonstrations, and creative ways to engage in STEM learning. With over 23 organizations participating with 40 demonstrations, the event saw nearly 1,000 participants in attendance! Thank you to our Cosmos Sponsor Harcros Chemicals, and our Shooting Star Sponsors, Enterprise Bank and Paisner Dental Associates. Photography by Allegra Boverman and Realm of Media Possibilities captured the events of the the Day and the photo booth was run by Jackie Fallon of Quality Photo Booths
A Blast from the Past! at The Sixties Show, 2023
After 3 years away, we held our first in person fundraiser since 2019 on October 15, 2023 at the Nashua Center for the Arts! Guests experienced STEM Demonstrations from Xploration ALC and the Tough Techs 151, enjoyed refreshments from Celebrations Catering, custom craft cosmic cocktails, won raffle prizes, and guessed how many truffles were in the jar (and the winner got to take home 123 truffles courtesy of Lindt Chocolates! Afterwards, attendees traveled back in time at "The Sixties Show!" This two hour performance included 1960s Music ranging from the British Invasion, Motown, Folk, and Pop and a Multi-Media Spectacle to enhance the performance. Thank you to everyone who attended. Photography by Allegra Boverman captured the events of the evening!
The Bounty Lounge, 2019
Our first fundraising event was held on October 5, 2019 at The Bounty Lounge in Nashua, NH. It was a great night of music, food and drink, prizes, games and trivia, and gathering together to celebrate. There was a little something for everyone. Below are some highlights of the night captured by photographer Shannon Burstein.
