The STEMcast

Listen in to our conversation with leadership coach and online education consultant Aditi Parekh whose journey to meaningful learning has led her to crafting innovative online education programs and coaching on leadership. Attending Harvard and having worked at MIT Playful Journey Lab, she shares her enlightened take on learning.

Meet Mohammed Hilal, an 18 year old proud Bahraini that is passionate about eSports and the gaming industry. On this episode, he shares why he is keen on promoting eSports as a true sport beyond barriers in Bahrain and the entire region. Listen in on the impact that technology has in the way we live and how the future of eSports will look like! 

Despite the long list of women achievers in science and math, only 24% of people working in science are female. Women in engineering make up an even smaller fraction. In this episode, Latifa Al-Khalifa delves into why female representation in STEM matters and why we must address gender-limiting challenges with meaningful change.

We live in a competitive world. Over the years, somehow we have come to place more emphasis on power, prestige, and status and have overlooked the tough journey of achievement. Society started to send a message that OUTCOME is more important than the EFFORT it gets to get there. In this solo episode, Latifa Al-Khalifa shares why this is a recipe for disaster! She argues that while it is important to understand and appreciate the energy, focus, discipline, and hard work it takes to achieve, but when we only reward the accomplishment, we miss the opportunity to learn critical lessons. 

Ever wondered how educational platforms are personalized to cater to your specific needs? Listen in to our conversation with a data engineer from Mindvalley who is innovating the learning experience online.

In this solo episode, Latifa Al-Khalifa shares why failure should be viewed as a hurdle rather than a roadblock and encourages listeners to see failure as a great teacher, to grow from their mistakes, and to get back on the horse. We might not be able to change the past, but we can affect the future! 

On this episode of the STEMcast, we sit down with Anita Amini where she shares her experience of how she learned how to learn and the importance of continuous-improvement. Anita is a software engineer in London who studied Pharmaceutical Science at University, but later on transitioned into tech. She now works for an online pharmacy, coming full circle to working in health again but this time, as a software engineer. In her free time, she's often taking an online course or writing on her blog which explores self-awareness, personal growth and what it means to live a good life. She's the creator of a course called The Power of Knowing What You Want, which offers a set of frameworks and exercises to help people discover how to cultivate a more fulfilling life. 

Tackling climate change and the countless environmental challenges we face calls for innovation and courage. In her solo episode, Latifa Al-Khalifa shares how young leaders and changemakers are leading the way, and how they are using STEM skills to do it.

In this episode of the STEMcast, we sit down with Carl Leducq, a Game Developer & Content Creator currently working on Survival game Icarus for Rocketwerkz in Auckland, New Zealand. Carl has over 6 years experience in the industry, working on mobile, PC & AR games. He's incredibly passionate about the role games play in our lives and excitedly shares how the industry is transforming. Enjoy!

In the next 10 years, every knowledge worker on earth will become one of two things: invaluable or obsolete. No matter the industry, the pace of progress and new information is faster than ever before in human history- and it's accelerating exponentially.

In her first solo episode, Latifa Al-Khalifa shares her thoughts on why learning to learn is the ONLY skill that matters! Latifa makes the case that if we can learn effectively, we can learn-or become- anything we want to be!