To celebrate the beginning of March, also known as Women’s History Month, NSTEM recognizes and applauds the efforts of 5 amazing STEM women! Gitanjali Rao — A 15 Year Old Phenom At the age of 15, Gitanjali Rao became TIME magazine’s first Kid of the Year. She “started thinking of ways to use STEM to […]
Archives for February 2021
What Even is STEM? And Why You Should Join NSTEM
STEM seems to be the latest educational buzzword! It gets tossed quite a bit without everyone truly understanding its meaning or importance. For starters, STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Furthermore, STEM focused careers, classes, books, curricula, etc exist, so knowing STEM’s value becomes important. STEM focuses on the integration of these four subjects, […]
Impactful African-American Mathematicians
To conclude Black History Month, NSTEM would like to feature 3 amazing mathematicians: John Urschel, Euphemia Lofton Haynes, and Elbert Frank Cox. To check out last week’s post, you can find it here. John Urschel — Mathematician, NFL Football Player, and Author Born on June 24, 1991, John Urschel is both an avid mathematician and athlete. […]
Books for Teaching STEM at Home
The COVID-19 pandemic has had the unexpected consequence of turning all parents into full-time teachers. The way students are taught compared to the past and the setbacks of online learning make teaching difficult. Parents and teachers find themselves struggling to help their students stay on task with their schoolwork. Sometimes, one of the best ways […]
10 Ways to Motivate your Students while Teaching Online During COVID
Here are 10 ways to motivate your students while teaching online: 1) Keep students interested. This is key. Students who are more interested, pay more attention, and are more motivated. You can keep students interested through experiments using Project-Based Learning (PBL) on a Zoom or Whatsapp call. In addition, teachers who share interesting and poignant stories […]
Prominent African-American Engineers
During this week of Black History Month, NSTEM recognizes the efforts of three African-American Engineers: Benjamin Banneker, Mark Dean, and James West! If you missed last week’s post about influential African-American scientists, you can find it here. Benjamin Banneker — Mathematician, Astronomer, Inventor, Writer, & Engineer Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731 in […]
