Digital Pop Culture for STEM

How do you use the power of digital pop culture today to engage kids in engineering? Guest engineer Nehemiah Mabry, Ph.D., talks about this and more. Nehemiah is a practicing engineer in North Carolina and founder of his business STEMedia. STEMedia creates digital content to promote science, technology, engineering, and math. Mentioned in this episode: • STEMedia website: http://stemedia.org/ • Email Nehemiah: Nehemiah@stemedia.org • STEMedia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stemedia/ • STEMedia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_stemedia • Technimetric STEM Poetry: https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/march-2016/technimetric-poetry-stem • National Academy of Engineering: http://nae.org/ • NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html • PBS STEM Resources: https://klru.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kycol/#.Wb9KpsiGOUk • HowStuffWorks: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ • Discovery: https://www.discovery.com/ Our closing music is called “Wishing” by Soirée, used with permission, and you can find more of Soirée’s music on SoundCloud, user “soireebeats”: https://soundcloud.com/soireebeats Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Support Pios Labs at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs Also check out these projects from Pios Labs: • Workshops and Professional Development: http://www.pioslabs.com/workshops/ • Electronic Quilts Curriculum Design: http://www.pioslabs.com/equilts.html • Guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html