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A STEM Challenge Winner Shares Her Passion for Game Design with Students

by Olivia Thomas
October 23, 2017

Olivia Thomas was one of the winners of the National STEM Video Game Challenge (2015-16). Now studying computer science and games, interactive media, and mobile development at Boise State University,

Bringing Drama (and Literacy) to Early STEM—and Vice Versa

by Lisa Guernsey
September 26, 2017

Opening minds to new ways of thinking about STEM for young children Researchers who study children often point out that teaching science and math in the early years is also

Celebrating High Chair Philosophers

by Administrator
June 22, 2017

What do sippy cups have to do with STEM learning? Definitely more than you might think, says Elisabeth McClure, recent Cooney Center fellow and lead author of STEM Starts Early,

Developing an Evidence-Based Early Math App

by Tammy Kwan
May 30, 2017

What if there was a better way to introduce math to young kids? For a parent, one of the first math concepts they teach their child is to count to

The STEM Challenge Inspires a New Career Path

by Sloane Grinspoon
May 22, 2017

Last summer, I had the pleasure of interning with the team behind the National STEM Video Game Challenge. While working with the Cooney Center, I helped create and publish online content

4 Things Everyone Should Know About Early STEM Learning

by Elizabeth McClure
April 17, 2017

This post originally appeared on Common Sense Education and appears here with permission. Watch a group of preschoolers working in a garden. It’s cute, right? But it turns out

Webinar: Engaging Communities of Practice with STEM Ecosystems

by Administrator
April 3, 2017

On March 29, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, New America, and the Erikson Institute presented a webinar on integrating STEM into early childhood education to the STEM Ecosystems group at

STEM from the START: Making the Most of Media As a Teaching Tool

by Dennis Neil Kleinman
March 2, 2017

A few years back, I was talking with a friend, a science specialist from the local elementary school, about the state of science education in the early grades. Her assessment

A STEM Story for Early STEM Learning

by Susan Nall Bales
February 6, 2017

Watch a group of young children in a community garden. They’ll dig in the soil, find and play with earthworms and insects, plant seeds in patches of sunlight, and come

Coding as Self-Expression

by Matthew Farber, Ed.D.
August 11, 2016

“Ugh! I hate coding!” cried out one of my seventh-grade students. “I don’t see why I have to move Elsa three spaces to meet Anna. It’s soooo boring!” “But with

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