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Happy 2019 STEM Spark-ers! When you live in a warm weather place like Phoenix, you rarely receive snowfall (it has happened though). So...

As we make plans for the new year, I want to encourage everyone reading STEM Spark to include STEM or STEAM activities into their 2019...

Wow, 2019 is right around the 90 degrees (get it? 90 degrees is a corner, haha)! I sincerely hope everyone had a few highs and good...

This summer I came across Tegu Travel Pals, and I was excited to get one for Jack-- it's a wooden, magnetic tangram puzzle that one can...

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell slime Jingle bells chime in jingle bell slime Twisting and stretching on Jingle Bell slabs In the...

Hello! So I've already reviewed magnetic building blocks/magnetic tiles on this post, but I feel like this STEM toy is so popular right...

So the second book in the Annie Aardvark series, Adding Ants, is officially released on Amazon! I really wanted to make an ant pun, but...

Thanksgiving is upon US (United States that is), and that also means Black Friday shopping and gift giving to kids at various holiday...

For US Thanksgiving, I put together a printable Turkey Tangram! Our kiddo loves doing tangram puzzles at his preschool, and when I saw...

The winter holidays are right around the corner, so that means we'll be doing a lot of STEM toy and product reviews here at STEM Spark. ...

Engineers come from all walks of life. Some of us started our path in engineering right out of college. Some of us started as engineers...

STEM Spark loves Halloween! But besides eating all our candy, what kind of STEM activity could we use our candy for? We can use our...

I have the perfect science experiment for Halloween: Dancing Ghost! With just a little bit of static electricity on the surface of a...

I had a scary dream, but with a happy ending, the other night. My family and I were flying somewhere overseas (the destination I forget,...

One of my favorite holidays is around the corner...Halloween! This year I'm going to go as NASA software engineer and Presidential Medal...

Alright going to wrap up the Harry Potter and Back To Hogwarts Day with an edible science experiment that I think Fred and George would...

I don't know what the aardvark I'm thinking tackling a Kickstarter campaign on top of caring for my family, working an engineering job,...

I'm very excited to continue with the Harry Potter theme, and this time with a STEM product review of the Lego Harry Potter Hogwarts...

My character Annie Aardvark is named after fellow mathematician Annie Easley. In addition to being a mathematician, Annie Easley is also...

Continuing with the Harry Potter science theme, I thought it would be fun to create a list of real life fantastic beasts and where to...