STEM Everyday
227 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe STEM Everyday podcast focuses on how teachers can infuse STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) into their everyday lessons. We will explore and share great ideas that inspire the students to want to learn while challenging them in the process. It doesn’t matter what subject or grade level is being taught, STEM can be incorporated into all classrooms. This podcast aims to assist teachers in giving students needed opportunities to learn and take charge of their learning, rather than having them acquiring sequestered bits and pieces of content.
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STEM Everyday #222 | Breakout EDU | feat. Adam Bellow
March 21, 2022 03:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBStudents learn best when they are engaged...Breakout EDU provides an opportunity for students to play active roles in their classrooms. Engagement soars as students become immersed in the game – asking questions, solving problems, and participating in group discussions. Adam Bellow is the founder and CEO of Breakout EDU, but more importantly Adam is a former teacher (and a dad) who knows how important engagement and collaboration are to the educational process for every kid! You can even sta...
STEM Everyday #221 | Getting Started with Drones & STEM | feat. Scott Buell
March 14, 2022 16:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBDrones aren't just a toy. They can be an incredible tool for STEM learning. Scott Buell of Drone Legends shares some great ideas for getting started with Drones. Kids are immersed in a world of videos, graphics, digital experiences, and on-demand interactions. How can educators activate curiosity when there’s so much to compete with, and we're already busy? Scott Buell created Drone Legends to help educators find great resources, ideas, and curriculum for engaging kids with drones. Kids are...
STEM Everyday #220 | Leadership in the Classroom | feat. John VanDusen
February 23, 2022 01:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBLeadership isn't just for CEO's and Principals. Everyone is a leader. Especially educators. And those leadership skills that we have as teachers can translate into the lives of our students. John VanDusen has been a teacher, a coach, and a member of the US Military. These three roles have given him a unique perspective on what it takes to be a "servant leader" to those around us. His book Lesson 1: Leveraging Leadership in Everyday Life takes experiences from the classroom, the locker room,...
STEM Everyday #219 | Making & Creating Fun Projects | feat. Josh Zimmerman of BrownDogGadgets
January 24, 2022 19:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBCreating a project from scratch can be difficult for the casual builder. Finding the right directions, the right parts, and the right tools—all at the right price—can be a major hurdle, especially for a busy teacher. Josh Zimmerman started Brown Dog Gadgets because he was a teacher looking for those resources and instructions his students could understand. He and his team create kits and projects for creators of all ages and budgets. Follow their step-by-step project directions, learn more ...
STEM Everyday #218 | 3d Printing with your Kids | feat. Keven Rinaman
January 22, 2022 19:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MB3d printing is not just for nerdy teachers anymore. Every educator can start 3d printing with their kids, but some people just don't know how to start. Keven Rinaman is an educator, author, podcaster, coach, and 3d printing expert. He has taught history, math, and technology at middle and high school grades, and has served as the technology director and Dean of Students for his district. Keven has coached numerous sports including: wrestling, golf, baseball and esports. He is a graduate of ...
STEM Everyday #217 | Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow Contest | feat. Ann Woo & Jim Flemming
November 06, 2021 02:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MB2021 marks the 12th annual Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest, which challenges U.S. students in grades 6–12 to use STEM to tackle local issues of national importance in a sustainable way. Now through November 15, 2021, public school teachers across the U.S. can apply for this year’s program and submit their activity plans that enable students to inspire real-world change to address critical issues in their communities using problem-based learning. “We have seen the incredible projects that...
STEM Everyday #216 | YouTube Stars are Educators Too | feat. Grace Dirig from The King of Random
October 23, 2021 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MB"The second you're the smartest person in the room is the moment you stop learning things." Grace Dirig, the new face of mega popular YouTube channel, The King Of Random (or TKOR), which currently boasts more than 12.6M followers, joined the channel after a nationwide search for a new member to join the TKOR family. The then college student majoring in Meteorology fit the bill—armed with the knowledge, passion, curiosity, and personality to push the channel forward in its adventuring, expl...
STEM Everyday #215 | Humanizing Math with VR | feat. Anurupa Ganguly
September 19, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBThere's been a lot of talk about how technology can help change education, without a lot of "how" behind it. Some schools are using VR technology to put students in immersive situations where the content being taught is connected to emotion & experience. Anurupa Ganguly created PrismsVR to radically change how lessons are "taught" and help kids be immersed in their learning! Check out the trailer for what a PrismsVR module is like Anurupa's entry point to Education began as a Physics and Ma...
STEM Everyday #214 | Brain Science & STEM Learning | feat. Bonnie Kirkley
August 21, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBSTEM is more than helping kids build and create. As kids grow and learn, their brains are developing billions of neurons. The learning atmosphere we create in our classroom can help kids really retain the lessons they learn and build a sense of wonder & creativity. Bonnie Kirkley has been teaching kids since 2003, and in her recent roles as a Gifted instructor and STEAM Support Specialist, she has shared a passion for great STEM learning for every kid. Her website iheartsteam.com and I Hear...
STEM Everyday #213 | Tinkering With Tales | feat. Angela Stanford, Julie Quast, & Lisa Oden
August 21, 2021 04:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBTeachers are great at finding ways to make learning exciting & relevant on a limited budget. Angela, Julie, & Lisa are 3 educators who decided to turn their STEM lessons built on fairy tales into a book to help educators. Tinkering With Tales is all about helping educators learn to look for problems to solve in the books their kids are reading. Tinkering with Tales connects engaging STEM lessons with 12 classic fairy tales. Each chapter refers to an easily accessible story and provides a st...
STEM Everyday #212 | STEM Collaboration | feat. Marla Rosenthal & Christine Dixon
August 15, 2021 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBMarla Rosenthal & Christine Dixon are K-8 STEM educators in southern California, with a big focus on innovation, design, and making. They took their teaching to the next level during the pandemic by working together across district lines to help their kids have even better STEM learning experiences. Their choice boards & STEAM lesson starters are great resources (find them here: https://makedesigninnovate.weebly.com/bloglesson-share ) Connect with Marla & Christine: Website makedesigninnov...
STEM Everyday #211 | Making for Social Good | feat. Matt Zigler
August 06, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBMatt Zigler is one of those teachers we need to clone and put into every school. Not only is he a fantastic artist, he uses his design skills to help kids create projects that help people in need. He also views his job as a "maker teacher" a little like a librarian, pointing the way to resources that kids and staff members need. The Wheelchair Stroller project his students created ended up all over the news, including NBC Washington and the CBS Evening News! Learn more about: Make:able Cha...
STEM Everyday #210 | Learning to Code with a Picture Book | feat. Shari Eskenas
July 28, 2021 12:00 - 10 minutes - 7.54 MBShari Eskenas founded Sundae Electronics with the mission of creating an innovative consumer electronics brand with products that improve people's everyday lives. She is an entrepreneur, electrical engineer, and inventor holding multiple patents. Shari enjoys brainstorming new ideas and creating novel products that involve programming microcontrollers. Shari has also written 2 children's picture books to teach kids of all ages about coding! Her newest book tells the story of a day packed wi...
STEM Everyday #209 | My Grandpa, STEM, & the Moon Buggy | feat. Gene "Herb" Clark
July 21, 2021 19:00 - 10 minutes - 7.35 MBHow long has STEM been around? In this interview, Chris talks with his grandpa Gene “Herb” Clark, who was born on Christmas day in 1925. He graduated high school at the age of sixteen. While in the Navy, Gene studied radio communications and helped send and receive important information during World War II. He later worked for a company that made control cables, including the ones used on the first moon buggy on the Apollo 15 mission! So what did STEM look like in Gene’s day? And why should...
STEM Everyday #208 | A Free Virtual Middle School Hackathon | feat. Inspire2Dev
July 16, 2021 18:00 - 6 minutes - 4.6 MBInspire2Dev was founded to make a positive impact in communities by providing STEM learning opportunities for middle school students nationwide in a fun and collaborative environment through our free Hackathons. Their 1st Free Virtual Hackathon for middle school students is happening July 24, 2021. Charlotte Law, founder of Inspire2Dev, is a rising Junior at Dougherty Valley High School in California who loves STEM, computer science, artificial intelligence, and biotech. She founded Inspir...
STEM Everyday #207 | Inspiring Kids with STEM | feat. Jennifer Swanson
July 01, 2021 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBKids just need healthy doses of inspiration...Jen Swanson is one of the best & most versatile STEM & Science educators around! Her background in Chemistry & at the US Naval Academy have given her a unique perspective when creating books & resources for educators. In addition to writing books & creating podcasts, Jen also speaks at conferences, schools, libraries, & more! Check out all of her great resources & her new book Rocks, Fossils, and Shell Hunting Connect with Jennifer: Everythi...
STEM Everyday #206 | Keeping Girls Interested in Engineering | feat. Anna Sannö
July 01, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBResearch reveals it is at the age of 10 that girls move from being excited to put their ideas forward on the subjects of science and technology to being more interested in being ‘likeable and pretty’. Organizations and schools in Sweden are joining forces to try to reverse this trend. Through a series of workshops, Volvo Construction Equipment together with Mälardalen University and researcher Ulrika Sultan are challenging girls to come up with technological solutions to some real-life so...
STEM Everyday #205 | Giving STEM a Go & STEM ED Magazine | feat. Fi Morrison
June 12, 2021 14:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBAre you looking for research based & practical ideas for being a better STEM educator? Fi Morrison was, and in 2021 started STEM ED Magazine to help people share their ideas & expertise in STEM. Her biggest piece of advice for educators is to "give it a go!" In her spare time, Fi is a full-time teacher of little kids, a Digital Literacy Coach + STEM Club Coordinator, and a mom. She's also passionate about girls in STEM and engaging the youngest of students in STEM. Read every issue stemedm...
STEM Everyday #204 | Inexpensive Microscopes for Everywhere | feat. Jim Cybulski
June 11, 2021 16:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBJim Cybulski is a co-founder of Foldscope, the ultra-affordable, paper microscope that you assemble yourself. Designed to be inexpensive, durable, and to give optical quality similar to conventional research microscopes, Foldscope brings hands-on microscopy to new places! It has reached over 1 million people and created a global community of explorers unlike any other! Foldscope is a company that develops low-cost scientific tools with the mission of making science accessible to everyone ar...
STEM Everyday #203 | The 2021 Heart of STEM Teacher Summit Preview | feat. Carly & Adam
June 10, 2021 19:00 - 9 minutes - 6.76 MBCarly & Adam love helping educators teach STEM better together. Their STEM Teacher's Club Facebook group has become a destination for sharing questions, ideas, & resources to help educators, especially elementary educators, be better STEM educators. Their Heart of STEM Teacher Summit is planned for June 21-23, 2021...Join thousands of educators worldwide and discover the fascinating connections of STEAM, Kindness, Real World Problems, and SEL! 18 Hours of Professional Development Access t...
STEM Everyday #202 | Strategies That Engage Minds | feat. Kayla Norville
May 23, 2021 20:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBKayla Norville is a brand new STEM Coordinator at a middle school in rural North Carolina. She's also the founder of Bright in the Middle, which specializes in creating engaging middle school science activities. Kayla also has a Ph.D. in Learning and Teaching in STEM Education, with a focus in science education. As a STEM Coordinator, she's working to help her school become a STEM School of Distinction in NC by focusing on standards-based STEM in non-STEM content areas and STEM content are...
STEM Everyday #201 | Women in STEM Virtual Event | feat. Avalon Berry
April 28, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.21 MBLooking for a great virtual event to engage your students, especially older students, and especially girls, in the excitement of STEM Careers? STEMpede 2021 is a FREE virtual event (May 5-6, 2021) focused on young women in STEM. Attendees will learn about the careers of inspiring female speakers as well as the technical side of their work. After all, what better way to learn than from those who are the most passionate. Speakers include Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland form the University of ...
STEM Everyday #200 | STEM Leads the Way | feat. Katie Jamieson
April 26, 2021 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBSTEM Meets the Challenge of the Pandemic was created by STEM Leads The Way to help students learn about the ways STEM professionals are helping lead forward in the pandemic. Through virtual experiences, this effort brings forward ways that STEM professionals and the companies they work at—in Minnesota and throughout the world—are using science, engineering, technology, and mathematics to find innovative and cutting-edge solutions to the challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Che...
STEM Everyday #199 | Project Invent | feat. Connie Liu
April 21, 2021 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBAny student can invent. Any student can engineer. Any student can make a difference. Project Invent is a nonprofit organization that trains high school educators in design thinking, engineering, and entrepreneurship. After their training, educators use their knowledge to empower high school students to invent new technologies for social good. Project Invent empowers students with the 21st-century skills to succeed individually and impact globally, through invention. Their goal is to creat...
STEM Everyday #198 | Kids, Prosthetics, and Limb Kind | feat. Robert Schulman
April 19, 2021 23:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBKids all around the world are in need of prosthetics. The kids in your classroom can help, thanks to the Limb Kind Foundation (limbkind.org) Robert Schulman, C.P. is a Certified Prosthetist who founded the Limb Kind Foundation in 2019 and serves as the organization’s Executive Director. Limb Kind was founded with the goal of improving the lives of children with limb loss both domestic and international, by strengthening the amputee community, and providing pediatric prosthetic care to all....
STEM Everyday #197 | Code Breaker, Spy Hunter | feat. Laurie Wallmark
April 09, 2021 22:00 - 13 minutes - 9.3 MBWhat if kids, especially girls, really believed they could grow up and be anything? Laurie Wallmark was one of those kids, and so are the women she’s written about. Laurie is a full-time, award winning children’s book author, and she “loves it.” Some previous jobs she’s held are software engineer, owner of a mail order company (she had a bookstore on the Web before Amazon did!), and computer science professor. Laurie's latest book CODE BREAKER, SPY HUNTER: HOW ELIZEBETH FRIEDMAN CHANGED TH...
STEM Everyday #196 | Read, Write, Code | feat. Jeremy Keeshin
March 31, 2021 20:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBCode is the new literacy. Six hundred years ago, most people couldn’t read. In 1440, the invention of the printing press laid the groundwork for massive increases in literacy and ushered in the modern era. Today, computers and the internet are causing a similar tectonic shift. Reading and writing are foundational skills, and in our digital world, coding is too. But coding can be intimidating to learn. What is code? Where do you even start? In Read Write Code, Jeremy Keeshin demystifies th...
STEM Everyday #195 | Cybersecurity & STEM Education | feat. Kevin Nolten
March 27, 2021 21:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBCybersecurity is more than just stopping hackers. Adding cybersecurity learning to a classroom can help kids experience more practical hands-on learning and expose them to careers they never dreamed of. A new report reveals that cybersecurity is a growing issue for K-12 schools around the country, with about 19 bills introduced in 2020 to help schools with issues related to cyber. With millions of children across the country learning online and schools being a top target of cyber-attacks, n...
STEM Everyday #194 | A Growth Mindset in STEM | feat. Erik Youngman
March 21, 2021 21:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBErik has thought a lot about how to get kids building a growth mindset through homework that truly enhances learning and isn't just busywork. His new book, 12 Characteristics of Deliberate Homework, defines what deliberate homework looks like and provides relevant, actionable suggestions to guide your homework decisions. You'll uncover how to think through these 12 characteristics of homework: reasonable completion time the right level of complexity appropriate frequency serves a specif...
STEM Everyday #193 | The OurEcho Challenge | feat. Philippe Cousteau Jr. & Stacey Rafalowski of EarthEcho
March 06, 2021 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBEarthEcho International, the global nonprofit founded on the belief that youth have the power to change our planet, is accepting submissions for the 2021 OurEcho Challenge until April 22, 2021. The STEM competition is designed to engage young problem solvers in studying, respecting and protecting the diversity of species and ecosystems that make life on earth possible. Teams of middle school students, guided by a teacher or mentor, are challenged to address the decline in biodiversity by id...
STEM Everyday #192 | Living on Planet Ocean | feat. Patricia Newman
March 06, 2021 13:00 - 14 minutes - 9.81 MBDid you know that our planet is over 70% covered by ocean? Maybe it should be called Ocean instead of Earth. Patricia Newman wrote Planet Ocean to share the story of what happens in the ocean. Patricia has also written a number of books with a nature theme to help educators combine STEM & Literacy in their classrooms and to help parents get their kids reading about STEM at home. Learn more about the book Planet Ocean Connect with Patricia: Website patriciamnewman.com Find the educator r...
STEM Everyday #190 | Open Source & STEM & Making | feat. Joshua Pearce
February 15, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBJoshua is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan Tech. He currently runs the Michigan Tech in Open Sustainability Technology (MOST) group and is also an adjunct professor in Mech and at Queens University, Canada where I run the Queens Applied Sustainability Group. Joshua's new book is designed for people interested in making and creating. It's filled with ways to save money by making use of free and open-source technologies on a wide range of products. There are chapt...
STEM Everyday #191 | 15 Minute STEM | feat. Emily Hunt
February 11, 2021 06:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBEmily just wants to help make STEM practical, simple, and easy enough for every classroom and every family to experience STEM learning together. Her new book 15-Minute STEM Part 2 is filled with 40 simple projects to get kids making and creating. Emily Hunt is an experienced primary school teacher whose role as a science subject leader at a school in Bristol ignited a passion for promoting STEM education. During a recent year abroad in the USA she developed a popular website and blog offe...
STEM Everyday #189 | Superhero STEM from DC Comics | feat. Shari & Matt Brady
February 02, 2021 06:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBKids love superheroes. They know that superheroes solve big problems, and they want to solve big problems too. Shari & Matt Brady are super educators who contributed to DC Comic's first STEM themed comic book Flash Facts! Flash Facts—DC’s newest middle grade graphic novel—takes readers ages 8-12 on 10 thrilling adventures, mixing heroic tales of DC Super Heroes with valuable lessons in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). The anthology is curated by Big Bang Theory star, autho...
STEM Everyday #188 | 1's and 0's for Every Child | feat. Miriam Tocino
January 23, 2021 21:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBGrowing up, Miriam's dad wanted her to go into computer science. She thought that computers were gray and boring. "It took me 30 years to find the creative and human side of technology and I don't want the same to happen to our children." As a coding teacher, Miriam Tocino has taught hundreds of students to switch their careers into tech. TELLING STORIES has helped her to make abstract concepts accessible and keep kids engaged. As the author of the Zerus & Ona books, Miriam aims to bring w...
STEM Everyday #187 | Making Technology Accessible in Schools | feat. Keven Rinaman
January 08, 2021 19:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBMaybe you're an educator wondering how to really make technology easy in your school? Keven explains that it's all about trying, sometimes failing, and getting back up again. No matter what type of tech you're thinking of using in your classroom, there are people who can help. "If each and every project goes off without a hitch, our students are going to miss out on an essential piece of maturing: overcoming adversity and building resiliency through failure." Keven Rinaman is the Director o...
STEM Everyday #186 | The Virtual Science Fair | feat. Ashley Weiner of EVERFI & Future Goals
December 17, 2020 20:00 - 10 minutes - 7.03 MBFrom now until Jan 15, 2021, your students in 4th-8th grade can participate in a Virtual Science Fair sponsored by Future Goals & EVERFI. The Future Goals Virtual Science Fair gives kids the chance to imagine how STEM can enhance the NHL hockey game experience in three creative categories: Virtual Fan Engagement, Sustainability and Technology/Innovation. If their idea scores, they could take home an exciting NHL® STEM-At-Home Prize Pack full of tech to help you bring big innovations to life...
STEM Everyday #185 | Engineering Design for Kids| feat. Marsha Tufft
December 09, 2020 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBDid you ever wonder what it would take to get your students, your kids, to think with an engineering design mindset? Did you ever wonder what engineering really is? Marsha Tufft has a wonderful story of perseverance as she earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering and went on to a successful career at GE Aviation. She's turned her passions for all things making and creating and STEM into a "second career" of teaching STEM camps and writing books to help kids get excited about STEM and Engin...
STEM Everyday: #184 | Makerspaces are Everywhere (Part 2) | feat. Paul Shircliff
December 02, 2020 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBPaul Shircliff is not your typical makerspace or STEM educator. He doesn't just know about coding or cardboard or tools or electronics...he knows about ALL of it! And when someone says something about a makerspace, he's quick to remind that "the real makerspace is between your ears" Paul has been a nuclear engineer, a teacher, and most importantly a maker. Connect with Paul: Website paulshircliff.org Twitter @shirky17 Chris Woods is the host of the STEM Everyday Podcast... Connect with...
STEM Everyday: #183 | Makerspaces are Everywhere (Part 1) | feat. Paul Shircliff
December 02, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBPaul Shircliff is not your typical makerspace or STEM educator. He doesn't just know about coding or cardboard or tools or electronics...he knows about ALL of it! And when someone says something about a makerspace, he's quick to remind that "the real makerspace is between your ears" Paul has been a nuclear engineer, a teacher, and most importantly a maker. Connect with Paul: Website paulshircliff.org Twitter @shirky17 Chris Woods is the host of the STEM Everyday Podcast... Connect with...
STEM Everyday: #182 | Making Coding Accessible | feat. Grant Hosford of codeSpark Academy
November 06, 2020 18:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBAbout codeSpark Academy The Parents Choice Award-winning codeSpark Academy, which has a presence in more than 1/3 of US school districts, teaches the ABCs of coding through a combo of structured challenges and open-ended play. The app is ideal for at-home learning as its self-directed, project-based model allows kids to learn a complex subject like coding at their own pace. Kids can even learn virtually from their classmates and friends through multi-player modes and sharing completed games ...
STEM Everyday: #181 | Creating with Cardboard | feat. 3Dux Designs
October 21, 2020 19:00 - 16 minutes - 11 MBJust a few short years ago, Ethan Klein and his sister Ayana were making things with cardboard. Now, they're teenage entrepreneurs who created a tool to help kids build creations out of cardboard. Their 3Dux connectors allow pieces of cardboard to be connected together, which allows kids to build "castles, kingdoms, characters, and communities" This podcast isn't just about a great new classroom or makerspace tool, it's also a look behind the scenes of how any kid can create their own busin...
STEM Everyday #180 | Coding to Kindness | feat. Valerie Sousa
October 16, 2020 19:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBWhat if we took all the good ideas of coding and combined them with the lessons of kindness? That's the idea that Valerie Sousa came up with for her book Coding To Kindness! Valerie Sousa has been a Kindergarten teacher in Massachusetts for 10 years. She began coding with her students three years ago and loved what she saw throughout the process. Her students were engaged, kind, worked collaboratively, and were so excited to code. One thing Valerie noticed during coding time in particular wa...
STEM Everyday #179 | Making Education REAL | feat. Anthony Chiles
October 02, 2020 18:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBRelevance. Empathy. Action. Lifelong learning. That's the REAL education that Anthony Chiles wants to see in his school and in all of education. Anthony Chiles is a STEAM Educator, consultant, and Student Support Coordinator in Burke County Public Schools, Georgia. When the Mutual, Visual and Physical Spaces (MVP spaces) combine with the four foundational principles of Relevance, Empathy, Action and Lifelong learning, they produce a holistic learning environment. Education must go back to t...
STEM Everyday #178 | Building STEPS towards College & Careers | feat. Debra Hettleman & Sheyna Mikeal
September 08, 2020 18:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBSTEM isn't just for elementary kids. In Baltimore, Building STEPS is building opportunities for kids to pursue STEM college and career opportunities. Their program launched in 1999 with the sole purpose of creating a college pathway for underrepresented students to become STEM professionals. Each year, the Building STEPS team helps approximately 200 HS students, 200 College students, and 100 alumni explore careers, participate in internships, attend college, and find success in STEM career...
STEM Everyday #177 | Biology Everywhere | feat. Melanie Peffer
September 07, 2020 22:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBIf you've ever thought that biology (or any science) seemed hard to learn, or hard to teach, Melanie Peffer has the solution: "Where have you experienced biology today?" That's the question to ask any kid (or any adult) to help them think about the interconnectedness of biology (or any STEM subject) to the world around us. Melanie is a university educator & researcher in Colorado, and the author of the new book Biology Everywhere: How the Science of Life Matters to Life. It's less textbook ...
STEM Everyday #176 | Robotics also builds Fun & Friends| feat. Dan Mantz
August 28, 2020 19:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBRobotics used to mean an intro to STEM subjects and head to college, but robotics is part of every career today. Kids are excited to build, program, and drive robots. Robotics can even help kids build friendships! "I don't just want the next generation of STEM leaders & thought leaders, I want kids to learn to accept and understand. Robotics is a universal language for technology, acceptance, and making friends." Dan Mantz is working with the Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundati...
STEM Everyday #175 | the Solve it for Kids Podcast | feat. Jennifer Swanson
August 26, 2020 18:00 - 10 minutes - 7.56 MBWhat if there was a podcast with real scientists sharing how they solved big problems? And what if that podcast was designed for kids? Jen Swanson and Jed Doherty designed the Solve it For Kids podcast with that exact goal! Each episode features a great scientist sharing their stories and ideas in easily accessible terms, all in a fun format. Jen is also a prolific children's book author and also speaks at conferences, schools, libraries, & more! Connect with Jennifer: Website solveitforki...
STEM Everyday #173 | Design Thinking in Children's Books | feat. Vicky Fang
August 22, 2020 23:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBWhat if you took the skills of design thinking and problem solving and applied them to books for kids? Vicky Fang is a children’s book author with a background as a product designer (she worked at Google & Intel). She helped create things like cars that talk to each other, robots you can build at home, and games you can play with your voice. She started writing to support the growing need for early coding education, particularly for girls and kids of color. Her debut books, LAYLA & THE BOTS ...
STEM Everyday #174 | Computer Science & Children's Books | feat. Laurie Wallmark
August 22, 2020 23:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBWhat if kids, especially girls, really believed they could grow up and be anything? Laurie Wallmark was one of those kids, and so are the women she's written about. Laurie is a full-time, award winning children's book author, and she "loves it." Some previous jobs she's held are software engineer, owner of a mail order company (she had a bookstore on the Web before Amazon did!), and computer science professor. Her #WomenInSTEM picture book biographies are: NUMBERS IN MOTION: SOPHIE KOWAL...