by Sarah Green | Jan 18, 2017 | News
Exciting news for anyone who was a schoolchild in the mid-90s! The Magic School Bus will soon be back, once more to fire up interest in science among schoolchildren with funny curiosity-provoking adventures. The animated show aired originally on PBS from 1994 to 1999,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 9, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
One of the hardest things about getting kids interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields is that they simply don’t have a lot of exposure to it beyond being users of technology. Girls in particular get shorted when it comes to STEM...
by Sarah Green | Sep 30, 2016 | Profiles
Emma Yang compares learning to program to finding a superpower or learning to use the Force. It was that powerful to her, right from the beginning. Born in Hong Kong to a STEM household (her father is in computer science, her mother is a mathematician), Yang learned...
by Sarah Green | Sep 5, 2016 | News, Student Issues
President Obama at the National Medal of Science ceremony. Photo: Jose Gil / Shutterstock.com President Obama is a nerd. A lot of people describe themselves as nerds these days, and some people think it’s “in” to be nerdy, while others resent that because they used to...
by Sarah Green | Mar 17, 2016 | News
In 2015, US News did a study they call the STEM index, looking at the demographics of people holding degrees and jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, aka STEM fields. The results weren’t thrilling; progress on shrinking the notorious...
