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: [email protected]

• 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

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