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Mar

3 Fun, Free St. Patrick’s Day STEM Activities! These three STEM activities are quick and easy to put together, are free, and will help you celebrate the holiday - STEM style! 1. Screen-Free Coding Activity Requiring just a box of Lucky Charms cereal, this activity comes with a printable sheet that helps teach young’uns about [...]

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Tags: St. Patrick's Day STEM,

Feb

What is AR?

What Is AR? AR, an abbreviation for augmented reality, is a technology which adds imaginary elements into the real world for you to interact with. Augmented reality is sweeping across all industries including education, manufacturing, retail, sports, medical fields - it’s the future. To give you a sense of how AR can transform your surroundings [...]

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Dec

3 STEM Activities to Try During Your Winter Break

Put your winter break to good use! While home for the holidays, take some time to explore your interests in STEM, try new things, and continue on the path to your future STEM career! Here are three fun STEM activities to try: Play STEM Games Take a step a way from WOW and Minecraft for [...]

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Tags: citizen science, hour of code, STEM games,

Nov

How To Save Money on STEM, Science, and Life with Open Source

Michigan Tech engineering professor Joshua Pearce has an approach that can help people in the real world save money on STEM education, state-of-the-art scientific equipment and many consumer products we all use every day. Pearce is well known in the research community for savings scientists millions of dollars using open source tricks. Now he is […]

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Nov

The Stardust Mystery: FREE resources for educators

The Stardust Mystery is a fun new story for late elementary and middle school science learning. The theme of the resources created by fellow educator Peter Solomon and his team is: we are made of STARDUST that was once in the body of Albert Einstein and the last T-Rex. This is true. We each have […]

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Jul

Solve It! For Kids

Ever wonder how to map an underwater forest? Or what it takes to compose a symphony about space? Perhaps it would be fun to learn how we might one day communicate with astronauts on Mars? Or how people can restore their connection with water? And just what exactly would a person take with them on [...]

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Mar

Distance Learning Tips for STEM Teachers

Within a matter of days educators went from classroom teachers to distance learning teachers, leaving many of us scrambling to figure out what to do and how to make the best of this new online learning situation. While using technology tools for teaching is not foreign to most of us, not seeing our students face-to-face [...]

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Tags: distance learning,

Jan

STEM Career Exploration 101

You’ve likely heard a lot about STEM lately; science, technology, engineering, and math. So what is all the buzz about? Simply put, STEM is an in-demand field with tremendous opportunity. STEM jobs are rising in number, expected to grow 13% by 2027 – way more than non-STEM jobs, which are expected to rise a mere […]

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Feb

STEM Career Lists

STEM Career Information If you are looking to take the first step toward your dream career, it is a good idea to first learn more about what career options exist in science, technology, engineering, and math. Below is a list of lists! Here are four comprehensive lists of STEM careers to get started: Career in […]

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