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Latest on research, best practices & resources all focused on steam (stem + arts)

STEAM in Action

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Recap: Summer Events at Connecticut and Rhode Island Libraries

GIANT at Scratch Day!

GIANT X Skip Hop®: A Creative Sensory Experience

Bring Your Child to Work Day at Campari!

The GIANT Room Partners With Center for Public Research and Leadership at Columbia University For Innovative Initiative to Co-Design the Future of School

The First of Its Kind: GIANT Remix Stations!

The GIANT Room partners with Sesame Workshop to co-design a suite of games with preschoolers and their families

Science Fun and Games at NEST+m

Biomimicry Trading Cards at PS 29’s Super Science Saturday!

Gold Medal Finish at Corlears Sports Day

Martin Luther King Day of Service at Corlears School

Love Your Planet - When STEM Turns to SEL

The GIANT Room Partners with NYC DOE Software Engineering Program for the First PD Session at Cooper Union

Learning to Think Outside the Box...With the Box!

Coding Can Be Fun and Playful - Minecraft Coding Class at Hunter Elementary

SEL Meets STEM: Designing a Museum of Emotions

Mensa Teams Up With The GIANT Room

Learn. Play. Grow. at The Corlears School

Coding Class at the Zaha Building

A GIANT First: Half Day STEAM Camp at PS 33

The GIANT Room Partners with The Connecticut State Libraries

GIANT Kids Co-Design a Social Networking App That Supports Their Digital Citizenship

The GIANT Room Partners with BrainPOP

The GIANT Room Partners with LEGO Education

The GIANT Room partners with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and Mrs Wordsmith

The GIANT Room continues their partnership with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

The GIANT Room Partners with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

GIANT Next Exhibition: Create Mode in Progress

GIANT Earth Day In Little Island

Check out how we celebrated Earth Day in a GIANT way at Little Island and resources for you to celebrate our home planet every day!

Social Emotional Learning & Creative STEM for PS33 Students

We joined students at PS33, kindergarten through 5th grade, for a three-week Social Emotional Learning (SEL) program focused on forgiveness…

GIANT Resources & Activities

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Celebrating holidays in a GIANT way!

Celebrating the Festival of Lights with the Jewish Museum and Temple Emanu-El

Celebrate Earth Day in a GIANT Way

Celebrate Earth Day in a GIANT way with more than 30 creative STEM activities you can do at home!

Bullying is never ok, violence is not the answer - even if its Will Smith and Chris Rock

STEAM Activity: Celebrating Pi Day in a GIANT way!

A fun STEM activity to celebrate the Pi Day, inspired by the childhood memories of one of our founders!

Celebrating International Women's Day

Celebrating Black History Month

Standing Up to Racism

Getting Ready for Our "Broadway" Opening!

Earth Day Play

Turn Your Room Into ... What You Miss the Most About the City!

STEAM Activity: Light It Up...with Potatoes!

Deliver energy to people cut off from electricity grids with potatoes! Place a penny and a galvanized nail inside a potato, connect them to wires and LEDs, and you can provide lighting to remote towns and villages around the world!

STEAM Activity: Harness The Power of The Sun!

Capture the energy of the sun and do something really cool with it! Design your own light up projects - all powered with renewable energy captured by solar panels. The People’s Climate March is coming up this Friday, September 21st! Well over 100,000 people will be…

GIANT Spotlight

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Dr. Azadeh Jamalian Commended as a Leader in the AI Revolution in EDU

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Shawn Bullen

Brilliant and renowned artist Shawn Bullen has painted murals on buildings and walls all over the world.

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Dr. Gabby Wild

Award winning National Geographic Author, Dr. Gabby Wild has traveled the world to save animals.

GIANT Around The World: Meet Kevin Muriuki

In a new series, GIANT Around the World, we are spotlighting our instructors by highlighting where they are coming from and what’s special about their cities from their perspective. First in the series meet Kevin Muriuki from Mombasa city, Kenya in Africa.

A GIANT Conversation with Director and Filmmaker Thomas Verrette

Thomas Verrette is director and filmmaker of Zero Gravity - a documentary about a group of California kids coding for NASA!

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Alena Kuznetsova

In her abstract painting, Alena’s goal is to discover new techniques, find balance in color and be true to her style. In her words, “The key to understanding non-figurative color painting is attention to your sensations.”

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Ciana Malchione

Ciana makes her illustrations in paper-cut collage and is particularly excited by nonfiction stories from history…

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Nathier!

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Lexy Ho-Tai

Through my multi-disciplinary visual art and teaching practice I explore accessibility, inclusion, identity, craft and play….

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Jamie!

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Nancy!

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Rebecca!

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Alex!

With a background in Product Design from Stanford and a deep care for innovative education.

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Hazal!

With a background in creative technology and interactive design from Parsons and a deep love for learning and teaching

On Chasing Sunshine in a GIANT Way

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Juliet!

Hi! I'm Juliet! I’m the newest team member at The GIANT Room! I recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a degree in Technology, Innovation, and Education. My favorite place on campus was the makerspace, where …

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Jess!

Hi I’m Jess! Co-founder at the Giant Room. I joined The GIANT Room to celebrate the dreamers and help children’s imagination flourish. I completed my PhD in Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. One of my favorite memories…

GIANT Spotlight: Meet Azi!

Hi! I’m Azi - a GIANT dreamer, and founder of The GIANT Room. My background is in Systems Engineering, but then I got very interested in education and more specifically in the integration of Technology and Learning. That’s why I ended up with a PhD in Cognitive Studies…

Things We Read, Do & Love

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A GIANT Celebration of International Women's Day

The State of America’s Kids and Families Unveiled At Common Sense Media Summit

The GIANT Team Works Out at FaceGym

Connecting with Kids Through Their Questions

Bumper Cars On Ice!

Unwrap the Sweet Science of Sugar at Sweet Saba

Arte! Arte! Arte! Marta Minujin at the Jewish Museum

Arte! Arte! Arte! We felt Marta Minujin’s bold and colorful spirit reflected in her new exhibit at The Jewish Museum, which is open now through March 31st. Throughout six decades Marta Minuijin has and continues to create multimedia installations, interactive events, paintings, and sculptures.

Emotions Matter! We should take them seriously.

As the need for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) continues to grow, what are experts saying? what is the research to support it and how can we work toward integrating it across children’s lives?

Not a Box: A Great Book About Divergent Creativity

Curious how many things you can make with a single craft box? Check out more than 30 projects GIANT kids have made. It’s not a box, it’s a …

New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival: March 4-19th

New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival is screening a series of excellent STEM films and documentaries and our GIANT community can receive 10% off their first 4 tickets with the code STEM25.

Rainbows Are Popping Up in Brooklyn Windows Thanks To A Group of Thoughtful Kids

Look outside your window and you might see a colorful surprise. Rainbows are popping up in Brooklyn’s residential windows thanks to its youngest community members.

I Have An Idea!

Herve Tullet’s book “I Have An Idea!” encompasses those “a-ha” moments that we crave at The GIANT Room. We love to see the excitement and pride in kids as they come up with ideas: from the big picture plans for building a motion sensor octopus, to the small task of…

Why Scientists Need Arts Training

Technology is integrated into every aspect of our lives, including the way we communicate, interact, and learn. To be able to have an impact on the world they live in and to influence society in positive ways, it’s important for kids to be comfortable with technology, and start using it in the service of their ideas.

We Joined #FridaysForFuture with Greta Thunberg and This Is What We Saw

Last Friday, the GIANT team headed downtown and witnessed kids taking action, making their voices heard, and joining together to create history. What started as a 16-year-old camping outside the Swedish Parliament has turned into a historical movement…

The Book With No Pictures

Read it to your child. Let them laugh with you. Let them see how silly you can be. Let them know they are "THE BEST KID EVER in the history of the entire world". Make all the silly sounds and say the most ridiculous things. It will be fun. It will make you a better person…

GIANT AI Report

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GIANT AI Report: Here's What Biden's AI Executive Order Can Mean For Schools, and more…

Nov 6, 2023

GIANT AI Report for this week. From Biden’s AI Executive Order to a “Data Poisoning tool” by MIT researchers

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STEAM in News

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STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 5/13/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 4/29/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 4/22/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 4/15/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 4/8/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 4/1/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 3/25/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 3/18/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 3/11/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 3/4/2022

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 08/07/20

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 07/31/20

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 07/24/20

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 07/17/20

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 07/10/20

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 07/03/20

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and wanted to share. Enjoy!

STEAM (STEM + ARTS) News in Review: 03/20/20

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read and found as great resources during the current health situation. Join our conversation and share your thoughts with us in comments:

STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review: 10/25/19

Our STEAM (STEM + Arts) News in Review for this week. Below are the articles we read focused on kids, education, technology, and art. Join our conversation and share your thoughts with us in comments below…