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Well it's April STEM Sparkers. At least I think it is April. To quote a friend, it's like day 67089 of quarantine, so we hope all our...

Happy Spring Equinox STEM Sparkers! To say that this Spring will be a little different is probably the understatement of the year. If...

Happy E-Week STEM Sparkers! Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, EWeek (February 16–22, 2020) is dedicated...

As a female engineer, supporting diversity in my profession is close to my heart and supporting diversity in children's book is an...

Happy Lunar New Year STEM Sparkers! I've got to hand it to Lego: they sure know how to celebrate various holidays (check out this). I...

Welcome back STEM Sparkers to our holiday STEM product reviews and giveaways! The product we're reviewing this week was recommended to us by a few of our engineering friends, and I have to say, it's a pretty cool STEM product: it's the the Kamigami Robot Lina Ladybug! But before we jump into this review, a little robot humor. What kind of droids live at the North Pole? Snobots! Har, har, har (groan)! Will your kids like it and/or will you hate it? Jack keep asking when w

Happy Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and Festivus for the rest of us STEM Sparkers! To celebrate these wonderful holidays, we're giving away a Goldiblox DIY Glowing Unicorn Pillow! I mean, nothing sparks STEM joy like a light up unicorn pillow, am I right? And it is one sharp pillow (get it? alright let's move on)! Will your kids like it and/or will you hate it? Jack was very excited when he opened the mail box the pillow kit came in. He screamed Unicorn Pillow! I was also v

Alright, it's that time of year again where STEM Spark recommends some STEM books for your Black Friday and other holiday shopping. But not only is STEM Spark recommending these books, we're raffling off a bundle of these books to one lucky STEM Spark reader! First up will be STEM book recommendations for kids, and then make sure to scroll all the way through to the bottom for your chance to win the book giveaway! STEM Books for Kids: STEM books for YA: And finally STEM book

STEM Sparkers, I can't believe the holidays are right around the corner (here in the US)! We have all these grand plans again to review products and give them away from now until the New Year here at STEM Spark, so... let's get to it! No time to waste! Unless your Santa Claus or Hermione Granger or Doctor Who or etc and can manipulate time. Anyway, first up is the Lego BrickHeadz Thanksgiving Turkey. Will your kids like it and/or will you hate it? I showed Jack the box and

Halloween is in STEM Spark's top 100 holidays (give or take 100; is that not the most engineering thing to say? ha), and we love doing STEM and STEAM related activities for Halloween (I mean, STEM is in the blog's name). So image how happy we were to find Geek& Co's Glow Stick Lab-- we could make our own glow sticks for tricking or treating on Halloween night! Science meets Halloween, swoon! Read below for our review on the lab and then a little further (further, yep right

Hello STEM Sparkers! Welcome back to the Back to School Book Reviews; this one is the last one which means this post contains the Amazon e-gift card giveaway! The final book STEM Spark is reviewing is Stardust Explores Earth's Wonders . Hope you're ready for this review-- there's a quiz, I mean giveaway, at the end! You can check out the other Back to School Book Reviews here and here . Will your kids like it and/or will you hate it? Jack seemed interest in this book w

Welcome back STEM Sparkers for the next back to school book review! This time STEM Spark is reviewing the fun, STEM chapter book Mia Marcotte and the Robot written by Jeanne Wald and illustrated by Saliha Caliskan. It's definitely a book you want to download to your ROM (see what I did there? made a robot/computer joke)! We did receive an e-copy of Mia Marcotte and the Robot in exchange for our honest opinion of the book. Will your kids like it and/or will you hate it? I

Hello fellow STEM Sparkers! It's back to school time here in Phoenix, so we're loading up on fish. Oh wait, not a school of fish, school that teaches students, K-12. Now that the pun is out of the way, we'll be doing some back to school book reviews of various STEM children books during the whole month of August. Stick us through the end of the month because we plan to raffle of an Amazon gift card so that one lucky STEM Sparker can buy one of these cool STEM books that

I'm so excited! I'm on a panel for Phoenix FanFusion called "Take Chances, Make Mistakes, Get Messy! Fun DIY Science Projects." I'm on the panel with a biologist and two astronomers, and I can't wait to represent STEM Spark by sharing different science experiments with the public. And to tie into the "Fun DIY Science Projects," STEM Spark is going to review the Lauri Fun with Magnets kits and one lucky STEM Spark reader will win a kit (see the Rafflecopter below)! Will yo

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers here in the States! Shopping for mom can be hard for some people (psst, more than a gift, we just want a non-interrupted nap), so I've rounded-up some STEM inspired gifts that hopefully hit the standard deviation with the mom in your life (hint, hint Jack). 1) Hidden Figures Book (or Movie) 2) Periodic Table Shoes 3) Geode Stemless Wine Glasses 4) Women in Science Poster 5) Pi Symbol Infinity Scarf 6) Mother Periodic Elements Tee Shirts 7) S

Happy Earth Day fellow STEM Sparkers! There are so many great ways to celebrate our wonderful Earth, and here on STEM Spark we can't think of a better way to celebrate than by reviewing and giving away this awesome Melissa and Solar System Floor Puzzle! Will your kids like it and/or will you hate it? Jack not only likes this puzzle, he loves it. He kinds of loves all puzzles, but since he's been learning about the solar system recently, he was really excited to open this p

STEM Spark loves Women in STEM. STEM Spark loves NASA. STEM Spark loves Lego. So put them all together, and STEM Spark loves the Women of NASA Lego set! We're going to review this product a little different this month. Since it's Women's History Month here in the States, we're going to share a little bit of history about each woman featured in the Women of NASA Lego set! Photo Credit Lego Margaret Hamilton Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist, systems engineer, and bu

Hello STEM Sparkers! It's actually been below freezing at STEM Spark headquarters, and may I dare say almost like a real winter? Okay, it's probably more like a real fall. And I can only image our Mid-West friends laughing and shaking their heads at us Phoenicians and our desire to play with snow, even if that snow is human-made from the Frozen Science kit! Will your kids like it and/or will you hate it? I saw the Frozen Science kit on sale at Target, and I thought since

Time for my second review for Multicultural Children's Book Day ( MCBD ), which is on January 25 this year-- Aliana Reaches for the Moon by Laura Roettiger. I'm so thrilled that STEM Spark received another picture book featuring a girl enjoying STEM activities to review for MCBD ! And as a reminder, here's a little bit about MCBD . Multicultural Children’s Book Day in its 6th year and was founded by Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom .

As a female engineer, supporting diversity in my profession is close to my heart and supporting diversity in children's book is an extension of that.  It's why I'm excited to be participating in Multicultural Children's Book Day ( MCBD ), which is on January 25 this year, and especially thrilled to receive a copy of the picture book How to Code a Sandcastle from the author, Josh Funk, to review for STEM Spark! Here's a little about MCBD . Multicultural Children’s Book Da