In recent years, we’ve seen a ton of great organizations take action to help girls get interested in STEM; giving them mentors, role models, and education to dispel the notion that technology is just for boys. Here are just a few that stand out! Girls Who Code Girls Who Code is an incredible success story — […]
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Careers in STEM are on the rise, and one thing you can do to set your kids up for a career path in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries is to consider sending them to this innovative summer camp! iD Tech is the leader here in America for summertime STEM programs. They have 50,000 […]
Women are certainly not the majority in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields (STEM). It’s important to help encourage girls from an early age if they have an interest in these fields and let them know that they can do it too. These 5 innovative products can certainly help change the path for young […]
One of the many sponsored STEM programs out there is the Citizen STEM Initiative Award. Based in New Jersey, the watchmaker wants kids to show their love of physics by making a video explaining what they’ve been learning in class, with young Gabrielle Grupenhof taking down top honors. Grupenhof created a video explaining how to […]
Kids dream. That’s what they do, until they start getting told not to dream anymore — I think that’s what’s called adulthood. But, nothing gets done without dreams, so us adults aren’t doing ourselves any favors by not encouraging kids to achieve. There’s no better example than girls and STEM. Microsoft, like a lot of us, […]
Learning to code is quickly becoming of the new “musts” for a child’s education. “Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic” is quickly being upstaged by the new kid in town. Walking the show floor at the NY Toy Fair this week gave us a good sense of the imaginative and varied ways to learn about coding while […]
Digital Dream Labs isn’t going to create any five-year-old programming prodigies with Puzzlets, but they’re hoping to foster an early affinity for STEAM learning that will lay the groundwork for future Silicon Valley success by helping kids think like a programmer. If you’re wondering, yeah, it’s STEAM now — the A is for arts, which […]
