This article was written by talkSTEM advisor and collaborator, Dr Paul Fishwick. How can we see objects and scenes in the real world as computing or...
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The BackStory to our Virtual Math Festival #STEM Education
Pi Day Math Festival 2018 at Sammons Park. Like so many community events scheduled in the middle of March, talkSTEM’s 4th annual Pi Day Math...
Using Photographs of Your Places in Sharing Your STEMlens
STEMLens: We Want to See What You See! We invite you to share your STEMlens – a fun, engaging, STEM education challenge designed to get us all to...
Covid-19 Slide in Math: Let's make sure Students Use Engaging Math Materials #AtHome #Summer2020
The last several months have been particularly challenging for parents and teachers of young children. This summer, many parents want to make sure...
A Day in Code: Helping Kids Learn to Code Through a Picture Book
This guest blog was contributed by Shari Eskenas, who has written a children’s book. My vision for A Day in Code is to help kids and...
Creating During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Reflection from the Marymount School of New York on a walkSTEM Service Learning project in AP Physics
Thanks to Eric Walters, Director of STEM at Marymount School of New York and AP Physics teacher, an AP Physics class in New York created their own...
Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck, First Woman to Win Prestigious Abel Prize for Math, offers her Perspectives on Learning Math
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck. Credit: Andrea Kane IAS Congratulations to Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck for winning the prestigious Abel prize for math, awarded to...
A fashion show at a science museum. Why not?
Having a fashion show at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science might seem out of the ordinary, but it exactly models the close relationship between...
How STEM and Innovative Thinking Equip Students to be the ChangeMakers of Tomorrow
We recently had the chance to interview Dr. Cherkowski about the importance of STEM and innovative thinking for today’s students. Dr Cherkowski is...
STEM in Sports: 5 Activities to Connect STEM Mindsets and Football this Fall
There’s a lot of STEM in Sports: speed, distance, uniform design and functionality-the list goes on. This fall, get your children thinking about...