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Dr. Holly Golecki, a professor in the Bioengineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about using soft robotics ...
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 48:22
The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin tries to attract kids to science using loud and entertaining demonstrations that might not ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2022
- Length: 29:29
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 48:59
What is synthetic biology? Researcher and professor Dr. Xiaojing Gao introduces this cutting edge field. He explains how his lab at Stanford Univer...
- Added: Dec 15, 2021
- Length: 27:54
Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament G...
- Added: Nov 20, 2021
- Length: 51:41
The Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation has been running robotics programs for youth for years, including the widespread global com...
- Added: Aug 06, 2021
- Length: 37:29
Math is fundamental to engineering education and other disciplines. That’s part of why Richard Rusczyk wants to teach kids harder math than they o...
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 59:36
Kids can learn CAD for 3D printing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be a hassle. David Seto and Michael Welch wrote a set of books to make teachin...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 49:38
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 35:39
The pandemic has spurred teachers like Amanda Hough to teach CAD remotely, but how do you do that if students don’t have the hardware to run resour...
- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 34:15
STEM curriculum specialist Dr. Corey Hall shares tips and resources for teaching engineering effectively at the K-12 level in 2021, both during and...
- Added: Apr 07, 2021
- Length: 45:50
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 53:11
Ears Adrift explores myths and facts about the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
- Added: Mar 02, 2021
- Length: 12:10
Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowl...
- Added: Dec 29, 2020
- Length: 49:30
How do you make an audio-based course to teach science topics to kids? Podcast creator, teacher, and musician Marshall Escamilla explains. Marsha...
- Added: Aug 28, 2020
- Length: 44:13
Many Muslims fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This year, it falls within the coronavirus pandemic and people are curious about the he...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and WYAP
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
These teachers know tech. Steve Dembo and Victoria Thompson teach in K-12 and are also educational technology consultants. Steve is a middle scho...
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 01:11:32
The nonprofit Beyond Benign specializes in developing and disseminating educational resources in green chemistry – like how to create bioplastics, ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2020
- Length: 51:47
As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2020
- Length: 31:48
The South-by-Southwest education conference for 2020 is cancelled, due to emergency declarations related to COVID-19. Pius and Rachel discuss what...
- Added: Mar 15, 2020
- Length: 32:30
How do you “develop your practice” as a teacher and administrator? Rachel and Pius discuss this question and share their thoughts on going deeper i...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 18:29
What is engineering? What are the important aspects of engineering that anybody should know? Can we talk about all this without getting too deep in...
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 27:36
Your brain is a wonderfully complex piece of organic equipment that's supposed to tell you the truth about the world around you.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 1
The average household has more than 40 appliances that use electricity when they're off. We help you find and subdue them.
Bought by KFOI Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 23:21
- Purchases: 1
This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
Bought by WETD
- Added: Nov 21, 2017
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1