Blogs Archives

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...

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...

A Special Invitation: Film Screening of “Counted Out” – hosted by MathFinder

By Koshi Dhingra December 15, 2024Blogs, Math Learning

We are thrilled to invite you to an exclusive, free screening of Counted Out hosted in Dallas, Texas by MathFinder, a collaborative project of Southern Methodist University and talkSTEM. Join us for an enlightening evening for educators, students, institutions and organizations...

talkSTEM x Math Circle Network: A Collaborative Opportunity We are Grateful For

By Koshi Dhingra November 21, 2024Blogs, General Topic, Growth Mindset in STEM, Math Learning, Place-Based Learning

We were delighted to collaborate with the Math Circle Network, a special project of the American Institute of Mathematics, in June, 2024 when our founder and CEO, Dr Koshi Dhingra, led a webinar open to all math circle leads from across...

Holiday Giveaway this Thanksgiving! Open to all talkSTEM Learning Network Members

By Koshi Dhingra November 11, 2024Blogs, Featured Posts, General Topic, Teaching Strategies

talkSTEM is thrilled to announce the launch of our new talkSTEM Educator Dashboard and Student App!! Designed to inspire curiosity, fuel learning, and make science, technology, engineering, and math accessible and engaging for everyone. Our talkSTEM Educator Dashboard and Student App...

Empowering Educators and Engaging Students with new talkSTEM Educator Dashboard!

By talkSTEM Contributor November 6, 2024Blogs, Featured Posts, General Topic, Teaching Strategies

talkSTEM is excited to introduce a simple game-changing dashboard for Educators to connect students to engaging and interactive live or virtual STEM Walks! As Educators, the challenge often lies in finding the right tools and resources to make these subjects easily...