STEM Everyday

Cat Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World . Cat grew up in the country in Oregon, worked as a newspaper journalist for many years across the United States, and now writes, teaches at North Carolina State University, and plays with dogs. Connect with Cat Warren: catwarren.com twitter.com/Cat_Warren faceboo...

Erin Twamley is working to create a new generation of Everyday STEM Superheroes. As an author and educator, her encounters focus on sharing the diverse faces of STEM and creating excitement about STEM careers. Her passion is working with kids of all ages and grade levels, with a focus on K-6th. Erin’s encounters have led to the recognition of her exemplary leadership in education as demonstrated i...

Janelle McLaughlin is a passionate speaker who entertains and motivates while speaking directly to her audience's hearts. Janelle is a firm believer that the best professional learning is ongoing. I love sharing my passion for education and leadership as a way to kick-off conferences and get people excited about the opportunities in front of them every day. Connect with Janelle visit Innovati...

Jorge Valenzuela is both the lead educational coach at Lifelong Learning Defined and a teacher at Old Dominion University. Additionally, he is a national faculty of PBLWorks and a lead educator for littleBits. His work is aimed at helping schools understand and implement computational thinking, computer science, STEM, and project-based learning. Currently, Jorge presents nationally on these topics...

Jennifer George is a clothing designer, author, and Rube Goldberg’s granddaughter (yes, that Rube Goldberg). She is also the legacy director of Rube Goldberg Inc, an organization dedicated to helping extend the legacy of Rube’s work. Each year they sponsor a Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, an event where students of all ages compete with machines that they have imagined, designed and created in a f...

Tim Cavey is an 8th-grade educator teaching in Surrey, BC, Canada now in his 18th year of education. As host of the Teachers on Fire podcast, he chats with inspiring educators to bring you their highs and lows, passions and goals, and the voices and influences that are shaping their thinking and inspiring their practice. As educators, he believes we should be leading the charge on content creation...

As a young kid growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Pat Person (AKA Mista Pat) was fascinated with science and technology. As an adult, he was inspired by his 4-year-old son, Logan, to co-found a company called Kids That Code, Inc. in San Bernardino, California that teaches young children computer programming and other STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) related subjects. He r...

Simple, yet sophisticated, data makes the invisible visible, and documents what lies on our streets, playgrounds, and beaches. It illustrates the problem, uncovers patterns, initiates discussion, and informs solutions. Empowering people to clean the planet. And it all started with a simple walk. In this episode, Jeff shares stories of Litterati and how it is changing not only the way we can clean...

Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Alison now lives in Farnham with her British husband and 3 young children.  She works as a Paediatric Occupational Therapist and has over 10 years of experience helping children with special needs reach their potential. Her book The Spacesuit tells the untold story behind the making of the spacesuits for the astronauts that walked on the moon! Find out more: Fin...

Erin Riley got her start teaching by working as an artist-in-residence in New York City public schools. This early experience of partnering with teachers to develop arts-centered integrated curricular projects created the foundation for her STEAM work. Currently, Erin is the Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Jackson Director of the Engineering and Design Lab at Greenwich Academy, where she teaches classes an...

Leslie Edmonds is a teacher for visually impaired students with the Sonoma County Office of Education. In April of 2018, she was named the Sonoma County Teacher of the month. She received numerous nominations describing her as an outstanding teacher and dedicated advocate for the students with visual impairments. Connect with Leslie Twitter Vision Tech Services Website Chris Woods is the host of t...

Hubby/dad, Teacher Success Manager for @ BookCreatorApp , Apple Distinguished Educator class of 2015, Speaker, Auto Detailer, and Scratch Golfer Jon Smith is our guest on this episode of the STEM Everyday podcast. Jon shares what clicked for him in college to follow the path he is on and why special education. Connect with Jon: Twitter Book Creator website Chris Woods is the host of the STEM Every...

Maya has had a diverse career that’s been entirely focused on her passion for promoting STEM education and helping children succeed. Before joining the Society, she founded The Global Fund for Children (GFC), a nonprofit whose mission is to help grassroots organizations scale and deepen their impact to reach more children in need. Maya has also written and published nearly 20 children’s books, ser...

On this episode, Chris catches up with Jacie Maslyk from episode 104 of the podcast. A successful school leader and author, she was recognized as a National Distinguished Principal finalist in Pennsylvania in 2013 and 2014. Recently, Dr. Maslyk has been named the Assistant Superintendent of the Hopewell Area School District. Connect with Jacie: Steam-Makers website Twitter Chris Woods is the host...

Chris Perkins is a STEM teacher in Adelaide, South Australia where STEM Education is relatively new. He teaches students from foundation to year 7. Connect with Chris: Facebook Chris Woods is the host of the STEM Everyday Podcast... Find out more: dailystem.com twitter instagram youtube Support the show

Mike Ransford is a K - 5 STEAM teacher in Holland, Ohio. His path to taking up education as a profession is an interesting story. His passion for projects in education, bring them on in any class. Connect with Mike:  Twitter Chris Woods is the host of the STEM Everyday Podcast... Find out more: dailystem.com twitter instagram youtube Support the show

Alan grew up in Fort Worth Texas, and started taking Science Classes at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History when he was three years old.  He took classes there until the age of fourteen when the museum hired him to work as an assistant teacher! Alan worked there for 15 years learning how to hunt bugs, catch lizards, feed snakes, make liquid nitrogen ice cream, lick dinosaur bones, and dis...

Eric Iversen has worked in learning for over 25 years. At the American Society for Engineering Education, he started the ASEE Engineering K-12 Center, an effort to catalyze engineering learning in K-12 classrooms. Featuring a website, a guidebook for high school students, annual workshops for K-12 teachers, and partnerships with diverse organizations, the Center earned over $1 million in the five...

The STEM Network’s purpose is to connect science, technology, engineering, and math educators to discuss, explore and share best practices and research in STEM teaching and student learning through the use of technology. On this episode, Chris chats with ISTE's STEM Network leaders Julianne Ross-Kleinman, Jessica Shupik, and Charles Randolph. Connect with our guests Juli's Twitter Jessic...

Jenny Mitchell is an ELA teacher at Hull Prairie Intermediate in Perrysburg, Ohio. She took a non-traditional route into education starting out as a speech pathologist and through that, she found out teaching people was what she loved the most. Even though Jenny is an ELA teacher you can find a lot of STEM in the way she teaches. Connect with Jenny  Twitter Resources Jenny mentioned http://edu.blo...

Imagine a dynamic construction set that lets you build mazes, games, race tracks, with ramps, gates, hoops and more for your classroom robots!   Kinazium is hands on fun for building environments letting you gamify your robots and rolling toys! Programable sensors are included for timing, points, and more.  Kinazium unleashes the potential of robots by giving kids the tools to design mazes, games...

Welcome to part 2 of Chris's chat with Bill Van Loo. In part 2 Chris and Bill gets into some simple things like cardboard. Ease, simple, fun, cardboard. The importance of community. And some influencers for Bill's. It is not uncommon to find Bill working in a variety of media including wood, electronics, code, and digital fabrication as a maker. When he is not doing that he writes, produ...

It is not uncommon to find Bill working in a variety of media including wood, electronics, code, and digital fabrication as a maker. When he is not doing that he writes, produces, and records his own music and that of others plus a freelance photographer, based in Ypsilanti, Michigan. By profession, Bill is a technology, engineering, and design educator. He is passionate about empowering kids. Cur...

Chris catches up with a past guest of the show Tori Cameron from episode #89. After several years of focusing on teaching math and science as a classroom teacher, she transitioned into the role of specialist teacher for a new STEAM lab. Tori has presented about various STEAM teaching practices at several conferences including Education Closet's Arts Integration and STEAM Conference and MassCU...

Laurie has been working in technology and education for almost 30 years. She holds a Masters Degree from Cleveland State University in Curriculum and Foundations with a focus on Technology Education, and a Bachelors in Business from The Ohio State University. Currently, Laurie is a student in the Penn Graduate School of Education, Applied Computational Thinking Program. Connect with Laurie: twitte...