Photo by Matteo Di Iorio on Unsplash Did you know that certain mindful practices, like meditation, can actually boost creativity? Creativity goes...
Category - Growth Mindset in STEM
Supplementing STEM Education at Home
Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash The COVID pandemic forced our children home from school in March, leaving parents and teachers scrambling. Many...
How to Use the Outdoors to Teach STEM this Fall
This year, fall is looking very different from the previous years. With extended time of children learning at home, it is more important than ever to...
Hear from PepsiCo’s Global R&D Director, Dr. Deepali Palta about her STEM journey and that of a potato chip
PepsiCo and STEM may not be synonymous, but they definitely merit cross-referencing. Trust me on this one, as I believe my experience offers a...
Call to Action for Young Professionals!
Calling all young professionals from varied fields! Here’s an example of a recent #STEMLens that shared by a talkSTEM team member. What do you...
Dear #ScienceFair Kid – A #STEM Mindset Entry
Monisha Veerapaneni shares her perspective on participating in science fairs as a kid. We’re the nerdy ones. We’re “those” kids. We’re the...
The Branding Issue with #STEM: A Barrier We Need to Cross to Achieve #Equity
Watch this 3 minute video shared by the Dallas Chapter of The Links, Inc. Thanks to them for honoring our founder, Dr Dhingra, as one of the eight...
Modeling the World Around Us: A Great Activity to Build Computational Thinking in Middle Schoolers #STEMEducation #CareersinSTEM
This project was done for a University of Texas at Dallas class on modeling and simulation. For a similar blog post on computational thinking...
Learning & Teaching in the post-Covid Time Frame – Finnish Lessons
Jake McMullen, PhD, Adjunct Professor (Docent) and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland, shares his thoughts on reimagining...
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’ Neil
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy is a New York Times Bestseller and is on the National Book...