Need some extra help in the kitchen this Thanksgiving? Turn your holiday into an engaging learning opportunity with these fun STEM activities! Gobble up those Pounds...
Football Mania: 5 Activities to Connect STEM and America’s Favorite Fall Pastime
Football is full of STEM concepts-speed, distance, uniform design and functionality-the list goes on. Get your children thinking about football and how we participate as...
Three Powerful Ways to Do Math this Election Season
We tend to make a big deal out of Presidential elections on K-12 campuses, but sometimes leave out the midterms. Use this historic midterm election season to illustrate...
Five ways to get your Kids to Create, Design, Engineer, and do Math this Halloween
It’s that time of year – costumes, pumpkins, candy, and fall fun! How about getting your kids involved in planning and creating their Halloween costumes? Buying...
Always Wanted to do More Volunteering? by Mary Cary Peterson
Mary Cary Peterson is an education professional, talkSTEM Education Coordinator, and recently gave birth to her first child. In this post she describes how she came to...
High School Students Inventing a Difference by Connie Liu
The dominating narrative about engineering is that it’s for people who are good at math and that it’s all about robots and cars. Super intriguing for some, but not the...
New Partners Join the walkSTEM Network! – September 2018 talkSTEM Newsletter
A lot has happened over the summer and we want to share. Check out the latest talkSTEM news and find out what local institutions have launched walkSTEM programs. Also...
Mindfully Japanese: Murakami at the Modern in Fort Worth, Rock Gardens, and more
If you are in the DFW area, make haste to visit the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth to see the exhibition, titled Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg...
Growing Lab Girls Contest Runner-Ups (continued)
Katie Weber is an 8th grader from McMillan Junior High School My favorite project that I have done in STEM so far were the leaf blower powered hovercrafts that we made...
Growing Lab Girls Science Writing Contest Runner-Ups
The talkSTEM team was thrilled to receive all contest submissions and we look forward to hearing from more young women during our Nextel writing and photography...