From my Classroom to Yours: A College Professor’s Thoughts on Teaching Middle School Students

Asking about his experience working with and engaging middle school students, Chelsea Lynn Kowal interviews her college professor, Dr. James Henderson, from Syracuse University (SU). Dr. James Henderson has his own lab at SU, where he is an Associate P …

At Home Science Projects for Elementary School Students

COVID-19 has forced many teachers to become creative in the ways they teach their students. Teachers often feel overwhelmed because they need to create inexpensive projects for their elementary school students. Read about 5 fun and engaging science pro …

NSTEM Resources and Scholarships: How YOU can use these for College!

As spring ends and summer approaches, high school seniors find themselves finishing the last of their finals and scouring the world for recognition opportunities, scholarships, internships, and other resources. NSTEM is the perfect guide to help with t …

5 Women Who Are Testing the Limits of STEM

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 Y …

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 care …

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, …

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 …

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 Projec …

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. …

Significant African-American Technologists

For the second week of Black History Month, NSTEM would like to spotlight Jerry Lawson, Valerie Thomas, and Annie Easley! If you missed last week’s post about influential African-American scientists, you can find it here. Jerry Lawson — Engineer Photo …

How to Prepare Your High School Students For the World of STEM

Are your high school students questioning their future in STEM? Are they having a difficult time transitioning into their upcoming years of college? Do they need opportunities to build their resumes and develop their interests in STEM? The National STE …

Influential African-American Scientists

STEM Innovators In honor of Black History Month (February), NSTEM wants to feature an African-American scientist, technologist, engineer, or mathematician each week. This week NSTEM decided to feature Lonnie Johnson, Mae Jemison, and Neil deGrasse Tyso …

 The National STEM Honor Society (NSTEM™) Names Maxine Cain, Advisory Council Chair 

ATLANTA, GA (February 1, 2021) – NSTEM™ is thrilled to announce Maxine Cain, founder of STEM Atlanta Women as their Advisory Council Chairperson.    NSTEM™ has partnered with STEM Atlanta Women founder, Maxine Cain, to enlighten, educate, and empo …

Close The Gap: Why We Need Women in STEM

Women are our future: our future chemists, computer programmers, environmental engineers, doctors, and the list goes on — They are natural born leaders. Women are empathetic and understand what drives people, therefore allowing them to account for a va …

How to Reduce Racial Disparities in STEM

Diversity is one of the most important needs of the STEM economy. Without it, there would be less discoveries and a smaller chance of finding solutions to the world’s most prevalent disparities. In order to harness the full potential of STEM, we as an …

The Future of STEM Education

The future of STEM education might not be the mystery we think it is. In the past year, we’ve seen educational practices evolve from the classroom to WiFi. Even our jobs are online, it’s almost impossible to imagine a world “back to normal”. From women …