If you are a parent helping with homework, an educator building a classroom lesson, or a youth services librarian planning after-school programs, you have likely wondered what long-term difference a…
When parents and teachers talk about preparing kids for the future, STEM education usually enters the conversation before kids even reach middle school. But in busy elementary classrooms where teachers…
Fifth graders can spot a "gimmick" project immediately—to keep ten- and eleven-year-olds engaged, an experiment needs real variables they can control, measure, and debate. These STEM activities for fifth graders…
So, what is civil engineering? At its core, civil engineering is all about designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that keeps our world running. Think roads, bridges, airports, water systems,…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a concept from sci-fi movies or an abstract technology understood by a few. It has infiltrated nearly every facet of our lives, from…
Image recognition is the process of identifying and classifying objects or features in digital images. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a type of deep neural networks that have emerged as…
Engineering is the use of science and mathematics to solve problems. It is one of the cornerstones of STEM education, an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to encourage students to study science,…
Are you looking for information on how to get STEM funding? If so, you've come to the right place! As a youth services librarian and head of the technology committee…
The things that keep students from pursuing a STEM degree is quite understandable, but it takes all hands on deck in order to solve. Luckily, after a ton of research,…
The definition of STEM literacy is not something that is easily found. Even when it is, many of them differ from one another. In the process of using my librarian…
