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Welcome to talkSTEM

By Koshi Dhingra October 21, 2020Intro

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Celebrate National STEM Day With talkSTEM: Our Year In Review!

By talkSTEM Contributor November 6, 2025Blogs, General Topic

Happy STEM Day! While at talkSTEM, we believe every day is a STEM day, November 8th is a particularly perfect opportunity to put on your STEM lens and notice the science and math around you (and maybe even post about it...

How Teachers are Using AI to Transform Education and Take Students on STEM Walks

By talkSTEM Contributor November 2, 2025Blogs, General Topic

When you hear "Artificial Intelligence will transform education," you might think of AI chatbots replacing teachers and tutors. Perhaps you have dystopian visions of a soulless robot teacher eating a silicone apple. In our age of AI, this fear is understandable....

Meet the 2025 talkSTEM Ambassadors: Curiosity in Action

By talkSTEM Contributor October 27, 2025Blogs, General Topic

Every child is a STEM child. Every space is a STEM space. This fall, twenty new talkSTEM Ambassadors from across the country are putting that idea into motion, one question, one photo, and one post at a time. These ambassadors range...

MathFinder Introduces new AI Math-Question Tool!

By Koshi Dhingra October 17, 2025General Topic, Math Learning

MathFinder, a key initiative of talkSTEM in partnership with Southern Methodist University, is pleased to announce a new addition to the suite of tools freely available at goMathfinder.org. The goal of MathFinder is to help students connect math to their everyday...

Mumbai and Miami

By talkSTEM MasterAdmin October 10, 2025General Topic

Celebrating Art Deco’s 100th Birthday From Opposite Sides of The World talkSTEM is delighted to partner with Art Deco Alive in celebrating 100 years of art deco in 2025 in the Twin Cities of Miami and Mumbai. Read the guest blog...

Why You Should Sign Up to Be a talkSTEM Ambassador

By Koshi Dhingra August 21, 2025Blogs, Place-Based Learning, talkSTEM Events & Initiatives

STEM is everywhere. It's in the curve of a basketball shot, the pattern of a tiger's stripes, the waves rolling onto a beach. The problem? Most people walk right past it without noticing. That's where you come in. talkSTEM Ambassadors are...

Dallas Teachers Test AI-Powered Tools to Spark STEM Engagement

By Koshi Dhingra August 9, 2025Blogs, Math Learning, Place-Based Learning, talkSTEM Events & Initiatives, Teaching Strategies, walkSTEM®

If you're an educator, summer break is for two things: trying to recover from the previous year while already preparing for the next one. This summer, talkSTEM and Southern Methodist University (SMU) recruited twelve educators from the Dallas area and asked...

How Generative AI Can Transform Your STEM and Math Walk Development Process

By Koshi Dhingra July 30, 2025Blogs, Featured Posts, Place-Based Learning, Teaching Strategies, walkSTEM®

Ask any STEM educator about the biggest challenges they face, and there’s a good chance their answer will include two things: lack of time and lack of student engagement. Both time and engagement can feel like scarce resources, right? The problem...

Immersive MathFinder Experiences across Dallas on Saturday, May 10

By talkSTEM Contributor April 29, 2025Featured Posts, Growth Mindset in STEM, Math Learning, Place-Based Learning

Immersive MathFinder Experiences across Dallas on Saturday, May 10 celebrating the 75th anniversary of the National Science Foundation Join the MathFinder team at our partner sites to see animals, art, nature, and human design and engineering through a math lens. You...

Using talkSTEM Videos for Learning Standards-Aligned Science in Texas

By talkSTEM Contributor January 6, 2025Featured Posts, Growth Mindset in STEM, Math Learning, Place-Based Learning

talkSTEM videos provide great real world connections to the science TEKS to build excitement about science. The videos can be used as phenomena to launch the learning of a science concept. talkSTEM has created a spreadsheet to help you easily find...