STEM Spark friends and family, you may recall that a little over a year ago, I went about indie publishing my book Annie Aardvark: Adding Ants and creating a Kickstarter campaign to help with the illustration costs (you can check out the Kickstarter post here if that tickles your fancy). It was a dream come true to receive support from friends and family to have successfully funded Kickstarter and even better to see the book actually published. I feel #blessed and my sincere

Hi STEM Sparkers! We're very excited here at STEM Spark; we got to interview the co-author of Everyday Superheros:Women in STEM Careers (you can check out STEM Spark's review of the book here), Erin Twamley! Below is a little bit about Erin, followed by our interview. Erin Twamley is an educator and author. She is dedicated to engaging the next generation of learners in protecting and creating a sustainable planet through hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (

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 while

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 re

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

Shark Week is coming up soon, and STEM Spark has some very good friends who love Shark Week. So to help our friends celebrate their love of Shark Week, STEM Spark came up with a Frozen Shark Dig STEAM Activity! You'll Need Tiny Plastic Shark Figures Water Bowl Plate/Tray Spoon Salt Instructions 1) Place tiny plastic shark figures in bowl. 2) Pour water in bowl over the sharks. 3) Freeze the water/sharks for 3-4 hours. 4) Remove frozen water/sharks from bowl onto a plate or t

Hello STEM Sparkers! STEM Spark hopes you all are enjoying your March and Women's History Month. This week's post combines our love of STEM, picture books and history, so without further ado here's the list of ten picture books that feature Women in STEM. Check out one to all ten from your local library or bookstore! 1) Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor (People Who Shaped Our World) 2) A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Help

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. Our miss

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, and having just launched a new blog! I do currently have a cold, so my head is a bit stuffy, and maybe that's why I'm not thinking so straight. And although I may not be thinking so straight, I'm so excited for this Kickstarter campaign! Because it's a Kickstarter campaign for my next book, Annie Aardvark: Adding Ants! HERE'S THE LINK TO T

Do you love math? Then count and color with Annie Aardvark in this free coloring sheet! Just click on Annie Aardvark below. #STEM #Free #womeninSTEM