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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
Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2023
- Length: 28:20
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
Chicago educator and entrepreneur Scott Steward breaks down his teaching philosophy, rooted in getting to know his students. Steward founded Genius...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 01:17:31
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
KaBoom is a national non-profit organization dedicated to giving every child the childhood they deserve. Their mission is to “make play easy by int...
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A high school janitor opens her heart and a closet full of neccessities for kids.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In 2017, a couple of ninth graders developed a way to make electricity from the rain.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
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
Model railroading is uniquely primed for doing educational outreach today, says Stacey Walthers Naffah, President of Milwaukee-based Walthers. Wal...
- Added: Jun 27, 2020
- Length: 46:32
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
Casey Lamb and Roger Horton work with the nonprofit organization Schools That Can. Schools That Can aims to promote real-world learning in educati...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 52:13
Vivian Shen and Ruby Lee want to teach kids how to program one-on-one over the internet. Vivian and Ruby are Cofounders of Juni Learning, their new...
- Added: May 27, 2018
- Length: 38:49
With the immigration debate heating up once again, two Virginia professors are taking their students to ICE detention centers in an effort to bust ...
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- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 03:39
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