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Emily’s Story
Engineering Emily’s story – from choosing to major in engineering in college to working as an expat in Australia to going on maternity leave after my second baby to deciding to leave engineering stay at home with my kids…you can find it all here.
- Introduction to Engineering Emily
- Part-time dilemma
- How I chose chemical engineering as my major
- How I survived the first two years of college
- The class that made me believe I could be an engineer
- Internships
- How I graduated college with no student loans
- How I graduated college with a job
- Why I left my first job after just 7 months
- Welcome to the oil and gas industry
- Plant Engineer
- International Work Opportunity
- Next stop, Australia!
- Change of heart
- Welcome Home
- Choosing part-time work
- Working with my spouse
- Writing professional emails
- Just a bachelor’s degree
- I need YOU!
- Traveling with a toddler
- The commute debate
- Challenging times
- Surviving lack of sleep
- Reflections on Mother’s Day
- Weekends
- Traveling for work
- Happy Memorial Day!
- Working for a large vs. small company
- Women engineering resources and blogs
- Working Mom’s support system
- Summer Break
- End of Summer Break
- Baby #2
- Work Tests
- It’s a girl!
- Advice to my college self
- Maternity leave with two kids at home
- Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
- My last day as a working mom
- New city, new house, new job
- Learning the value of annual goal setting
- Rediscovering passion for yoga and football
- The engineer stereotype
- Top 10 reasons to become an engineer
- I finally read Lean In…and I liked it!
- Marriage Tax changes
- Stay-at-home mom vs Engineer
- A Busy Mom’s guide to Stitch Fix
- 5 Best things about being a mom to a toddler and baby
- All about Mentors: How to choose a Mentor, be a good Mentee, and be a good Mentor
- Why I love gardening
- My top 8 tips for traveling with two young kids
- Celebrating the 4th of July
- 6 Tips for managing stress for busy moms
- 1 year after our first move with kids
- First day of preschool blues
- 9 Reasons to wear activewear everyday (and splurge on it too)
- How I go try dream mentor by being brave and seizing an opportunity
- My 2018 Thankful List
- 7 Tips to Manage and Reduce Holiday Season Stress
- 2018 Year in Review
- New year, new focus on STEAM for Kids
- My 5th Mother’s Day Reflections
- Engineering Heroes Podcast – My Interview: Season 2, Episode 3
- Hear my Interview along with 24 other Industry Experts at the She Engineers 2019 Virtual Summit!
- Engineering Emily 2019 Wrap-Up
- 2020: Goal Setting for the Year and Decade
- Happy International Women’s Day 2020!
- What Do You Do? Podcast | Engineering Emily Interview – Episode 02
- 8 Things You and Your Kids can do Everyday to Protect our Earth
Women in Engineering Interview Series
Inspiring stories from women engineers about their path from college student to successful engineer. Visit the Women in Engineering Interview Series page for more information.
- Paula D. – Mechanical engineer and yoga instructor
- Rita – Civil engineer and mother
- Mi K. – Mechanical engineer and world traveller
- Gracelin O. – Mechanical engineer and mentor
- Florence D. – Mechanical engineer turned software developer/business owner and mom
- Amelia P. C. – Chemical engineer and mom
- Elsa L. – Petroleum engineer and mom
- Diane L. – Reservoir engineer and mom
- Laura C. – Aerospace engineer and mom
- Jeanet S. – Energy engineering business owner and mom
- Alicia S. – Chemical engineer working in oil and gas industry and mom
- Christy S. – Mechanical engineer turned stay-at-home mom and blogger
- Sarah K. – Chemical engineer working as an expat in oil and gas industry
- Jessica S. – Petroleum engineer turned stay-at-home mom
- Dr Ashie B. – Chemical engineer researcher turned StemChef founder/educator
- Katherine N. – Civil engineer and blogger
- Karen W. – Industrial engineer, turned stay-at-home mom, turned petroleum engineer
- Jessica P. – early career Structural engineer
- Gracel D. – Petroleum engineering manager and mom
- Lori (L.A.) K. – Automation engineer and author
- Charlotte W.J. – Geotechnical design engineer, mom, and Moonflower handmade clothing shop owner
- Kristen A. –STEM blogger and former Quality Engineer
- Rebecca H. – Validation Engineering Consultant and Subject Matter Expert
Recipes and Gardening
I love cooking healthy family-friendly foods with my kids. We also enjoy growing a raised-bed fruit and vegetable garden in our backyard together. These activites are great to do together as a family and also there are lots of opportunites to learn STEAM concepts along the way!
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Teach your kids STEM concepts while making Rice Krispies Treats!
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Homemade Play-Dough for STEAM Play | STEAM Activity for Kids
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Spinning Eggs – is it hard boiled or raw? | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make Vanilla Bean Yogurt in the Instant Pot | Healthy Family-Friendly Recipe
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Indoor Herb Garden Guide (guest post from ProFlowers) & my garden update
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7 Benefits to Growing a Backyard Garden with Kids and How to Get Started Today!
We test, create and share simple, fun, easy experiments for kids of all ages.
- 3 ways to do math everyday with toddlers
- Easy and fun tower building activity to teach toddlers about shapes and gravity
- 3 fun and easy static electricity activities for babies and toddlers
- Fun and easy straw rocket STEM activity for toddlers
- Teach you kids STEM concepts while making Rice Krispies Treats!
- 3 Valentine’s Day themed Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiments for toddlers
- 2 Ocean themed STEM Experiments for Kids
- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Earth Day STEM activities for kids
- 9 Easy Preschool Math activities you can do everyday
- Summer Fun for Kids: 4 simple indoor and outdoor Rainbow STEM experiments
- 3 Simple Water Fun Experiments for Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Exploring the Five Senses for Babies, Toddlers, & Preschoolers: Sense of Touch
- Exploring the Five Senses for Babies, Toddlers, & Preschoolers: Sense of Taste
- STEM vs. STEAM – what’s the difference?
- Exploring the Five Sense for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Sense of Smell
- Exploring the Five Senses for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Sense of Sight
- Exploring the Five Senses for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Sense of Hearing
- Green, Gold and Rainbow St. Patrick’s Day STEAM Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
- 7 Benefits to Growing a Backyard Garden with Kids and How to Get Started Today!
- Color Changing Plants | STEAM Experiments for Kids
- Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag | STEAM Experiment for Kids
- Soda Geyser | STEAM Experiment for Kids
- Important Cybersecurity Lessons + Activities to Teach Kids
- Tornado in a Bottle | STEAM Experiment for Kids
- Make Your Own Oobleck | STEAM Experiment for Kids
- 10 Printable Construction Activities for Kids
- How much STEAM we really do at home everyday
- Easy Halloween Slime | STEAM Experiment for Kids
- Make an Origami Paper Balloon | Children’s STEAM Activity
- Elephant Toothpaste | STEAM Experiment for kids
- 4 Simple & Fun Paper Airplanes | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Stand on a Cup Tower: Building Challenge | STEAM Activity for Kids
- See Animals come to life with Google 3D AR Animals | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Homemade Play-Dough for STEAM Play | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Walking Water Rainbows | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Easter Egg Catapult | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Underwater Fireworks in a Jar
- Spinning Eggs – is it hard boiled or raw? | STEAM Activity for Kids
- How to Make Dying Easter Eggs a STEAM Activity for Kids
- Create Towers and Patterns using Plastic Easter Eggs | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Create your own Weeble Wooble using Plastic Easter Eggs | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Create Rain Clouds in a Jar | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Easy Coin Trick to Learn about Inertia and Newton’s First Law of Motion | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Easy Straw Flier | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Boat using Recycled Materials | Earth Day STEAM Activity for Kids
- Exploring the Five Senses Outdoors | Earth Day STEAM Activity for Kids
- Coloring using Plants | Earth Day STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Kite using Recycled Materials | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Pinwheel | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Spinner | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Star Wars Day: Rescue Han Solo | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Parachute | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Bubble Machine | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Floating Pictures | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Fishing for Ice Cubes | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Cup Phone | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Building Challenge: Make Shapes and Structures using Marshmallows and Toothpicks | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Balloon Powered Rocket | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Car using Recycled Materials | STEAM Activity for Kids
- How Many Books Can One Piece of Paper Hold? | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Piñata | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Lava Lamp | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Paper Helicopter | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Bird Feeder | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Nest | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Fluffy Cloud Slime | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make Silly Putty | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Bouncy Ball | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make a Fossil | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Be a Fossil Hunter at Home | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make S’mores in a Solar Oven | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Dancing Raisins | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Can You Fit Through an Index Card? | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Disappearing Colors | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Rainbow Lemonade | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make Quicksand | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Make Rock Candy | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Grow Crystals on Seashells | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Learn How Soap Repels Germs | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Salt Painting | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Tie-Dye T-Shirts | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Candy Corn Halloween Experiment | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Halloween Candy Color Diffusion | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Cinnamon Ornaments | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Observe Water Molecules in Action | STEAM Activity for Kid
- Bowling and Building with Toilet Paper Rolls | STEAM Activity for Kids
- St. Patrick’s Day Play-Dough | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Peeps Easter STEAM Activity for Kids
- Inflate a Balloon with a Chemical Reaction | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Rescue an Animal from an Ice Balloon | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Deflating Balloon Races | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Color Changing Love Potion Tea | Valentine’s Day STEAM Activity for Kids
- Color Changing Blueberry and Lemon Juice | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Write a Secret Message with Homemade Invisible Ink
- The Fire and The Flood | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Cleaning Pennies | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Eggsperiment: Make a Bouncy Egg | STEAM Activity for Kids
- Birthday Celebration: Learn About Air Pressure with Balloons and Fire | STEAM Activity for Kids
We read and share our reviews of the best STEAM books for kids of all ages.
- Girls Who Code Baby Code! Book Series Review
- Rox’s Secret Code Children’s STEAM Book Review
- Just Like You, by Keosha Sath | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- The Thing About Swings, by Mona Patel | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- Baby Loves Aerospace Engineering and Baby Loves Coding by Ruth Spiro | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- High Five, by Adam Rubin | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- Super Cool Scientists and Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Coloring Books
- What Kind of Car Does a T. Rex Drive? by Mark Lee | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- What would you put in your school? | Featuring the STEAM book If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen
- 5 Back to School Children’s STEAM Book Reviews
- Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- We Are Brilliant! A STEM Workbook for Future Leaders by Audrey Shawley of Boundless Brilliance | Children’s STEAM book review
- Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum on PBS Kids & Ordinary People Change the World books by Brad Meltzer
- The New Girl Code by Niki Smit | STEAM Book for Girls
- When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach | Children’s STEAM Book Review
- What Not to Give Your Mom on Mother’s Day by Martha Simpson | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- How to Catch a Unicorn | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- There Was an Old Astronaut Who Swallowed the Moon! by Lucille Colandro | STEAM Book Review
- The Very Impatient Caterpillar by Ross Burach | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- The Big Book of Birds by Yuval Zommer | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- Don’t Call Me Bear by Aaron Blabey | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- Lil’ Smore Magazine | STEAM Children’s Magazine Review
- Curious About Fossils | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- Math Curse | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- How Much is a Million? | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- Letters From Space by Retired Astronaut Clayton Anderson | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- I am Anne Frank (Ordinary People Change the World) | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- I am Benjamin Franklin (Ordinary People Change the World) | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- Flash Facts – DC Graphic Novel Edited by Mayim Bialik, PhD | STEAM Children’s Book Review
- Bronson Beaver Builds a Robot by Teko Bernard | STEAM Chapter Book Review
We test and share our reviews of the best STEAM toys for kids of all ages.
- KiwiCo Koala Crate | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Explora visit | Albuquerque Children’s Museum Review
- The DoSeum visit | San Antonio Children’s Museum Review
- Crafty Connects | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Kid Wonder Box | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- STEAM Clothes for Girls
- Smartivity Super Duper Propulsion Car and Fantastic Optics Kaleidoscope | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Children’s Museum of Houston Visit and Review
- Play Visions Sands Alive! | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Pitsco Education 3Doodler Start Learning Pack | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Tinkering Toddler Crates Rainbow Crate | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Color My Worlds | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- What Makes a Good STEAM/STEM Toy? (Study by The Toy Association) & My STEAM Toy Recommendations
- The Whole Kid and Kaboodle STEAM Kaboodle Kit | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Lincoln Logs | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- 6 Tips to Reduce You and Your Child’s Screen Time and Spend More Time Together
- LEGO Classic | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- 2019 Holiday STEM/STEAM Gift Guide for Kids
- Wikki Stix STEM Pak | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- 4M Llama Doll, Unicorn Pouch, and Unicorn Stepping Stone | Children’s STEAM Toy Review
- Magna-Qubix 3D Magnetic Building Shapes Set | STEAM Toy Review
- KiwiCo Kiwi Crate and Koala Crate | STEAM Subscription Box Review
- Coding Critters | STEAM Toy Review
- Dancing Bear Fossil Collection Kit | STEAM Toy Review
- Pitsco STEM Explorer Pack | STEAM Toy Review
- Code Cube | STEAM Toy for Kids
- Back to School STEAM Clothes for Kids
- Osmo Coding Starter Kit | STEAM Toy for Kids
- Osmo Math Wizards and the Secrets of the Dragons | STEAM Toy Review
- Family Game Night with the Osmo Genius Starter Kit | STEAM Toy Review
- 2020 Holiday STEAM Kid’s Gift Guide
- Pitsco’s 50th Anniversary – Big Book Catalog Release and a Giveaway!
- Osmo Little Genius Starter Kit | STEAM Toy Review
- Back to School STEM Clothes for Girls
- Dinosaur Valley State Park | STEAM Family Road Trip
- Peekabook Review | STEAM Toy for Kids