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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...

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...

Williams College x talkSTEM: Environmental Field Methods – Summer Science Program 2024

By talkSTEM Contributor November 14, 2024Featured Posts, Growth Mindset in STEM, Math Learning, Place-Based Learning

When picturing a college science class, many people may recall long lab sessions, rigorous training, and extensive lab reports. This past summer, however, this stereotype was broken. As part of the Summer Science Program at Williams College, an environmental field methods...

$A Community Math Stop from UT Austin Student Sarthak Reddy$

A Community Math Stop from UT Austin Student Sarthak Reddy

By Benjamin Feinstein May 1, 2024Place-Based Learning, Videos

talkSTEM founder and CEO Koshi Dhingra recently spoke with Sarthak Reddy, a Polymathic Scholar at the College of Natural Sciences of UT Austin. Reddy is studying Biology as well as Media and Entertainment Industries, so we thought he'd be perfect for...

March MATHness is Back!!!

By Koshi Dhingra February 18, 2024Math Learning, Our of School Learning, Place-Based Learning, talkSTEM Events & Initiatives

talkSTEM, SMU, and our partner sites are thrilled to announce the launch of the March Mathness Challenge soon. This is a great opportunity for teachers, museum and community educators, school / out of school learning site administrators, children in grades 3-12,...

Take a Math Walk at the Twelve Hills Nature Center!

By talkSTEM Contributor March 8, 2023Math Learning, Our of School Learning, Place-Based Learning, talkSTEM Events & Initiatives, Videos

We’re excited to announce a new series of MathFinder educational videos featuring and filmed at the Twelve Hills Nature Center, a wonderful blackland prairie restoration project and gardens right here in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas! You can now take...