STEAM

Students—particularly those who love trying new, STEM-related activities—might be looking for some new things to try at home by this point in time. Well, if they do, in fact, like STEM, there’s a great tool they can try on their computer. The SpaceX crew has created a docking simulation tool that anybody can use to practice their landing skills from

The team at Tech Will Save Us has created a unique line of STEAM learning tools—kits students can use to learn about a lot of different aspects of STEAM education. From conductivity and circuitry to coding and sewing, their increasing variety of options provides something for students with various interests to design and construct projects at home.

We’re ramping up our Eduporium Featured Educator series to share more accomplishments from teachers, librarians, makerspace leaders, and others! For this post, we’re excited to introduce Sharon Clark, whose made great use of technology in her instruction as a STEAM teacher, using it to help teach both real-world and soft skills.

This month, the award goes to Save Our Children Elyria, a big afterschool program in Elyria, Ohio! The group helps support many local K-12 students throughout the Elyria City Schools with various academic and nutritional assistance year round and, since learning has transitioned largely online, they’ve created a virtual makerspace for students!

MakeDo is loved by many and serves as an easy-to-use STEAM tool in and out of the classroom. It is a collection of construction tools, including screws, screwdrivers, and a saw, that students can use for building with cardboard. They’re totally reusable, which often inspires and educates students on the importance of reusing and upcycling while creating.

For a long time, we sold New Matter’s MOD-t 3D printer on our store until that company shut down a few months back. There is one way, however, if you know how to do so, that you could still make use of a MOD-t printer. In this twist on our Tips & Tricks series, we’re going to help break it

Our Wonder Workshop friends revealed the new, virtual environment within which children can program the Dash Robot (available in May)! While that’s all extremely exciting, we are also very excited to be sponsoring one of the upcoming virtual PD sessions. It will be hosted by Jasmine Saab, who is a longtime fourth grade teacher, and it’s taking place on April

Since it was released a few months back, we’ve gotten the chance the try out the littleBits Educator Starter Kit, which essentially serves as a trial kit for educators interested in STEAM learning with littleBits. It’s one single littleBits kit and doesn’t include much more than teachers and students need to get started inventing with littleBits.

Not sure if littleBits would work in your classroom? The Educator Starter Kit is designed for one educator and 1-2 students to test out the littleBits invention system before committing to classroom, schoolwide, or district-wide implementation. STEAM lessons include everything from constructing simple circuits to coding the functions of servos!

The Eduporium team is excited to announce that we’ve received a financial award as part of the Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund Program. The state’s Executive Office for Labor and Workforce Development announced all of the grant’s recipients last week and we are excited to receive a share of the funds, which will help us keep scaling our business in various