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This blog posts welcomes my Spanish edition children's STEM Robot Books now available in paperback and hardcover.

As parents, educators, and caregivers, we all want children to see themselves as capable problem-solvers. We want them to ask questions, think creatively, work collaboratively, and develop the confidence to tackle challenges. That's exactly why I wrote this illustrated middle grade chapter book. The STEM Kids Make a Robot book cover with four diverse 4th graders building a recycling robot At its heart, this story is about a group of fourth-grade students who identify a proble

What happens when a group of curious fourth graders decides to tackle a real-world problem with creativity, teamwork, and engineering? I'm excited to introduce my newest illustrated middle grade chapter book—a story designed to inspire the next generation of innovators, problem-solvers, and changemakers.

If there were an engineering equivalent of good trouble , Dr. Carlotta A. Berry has been stirring it into the robotics world for decades — and doing it with open-source bots, community street demos, and a philosophy that rejects hallowed hardware hands-off culture. When Touch Matters As an undergrad in the 1980s and ’90s, Berry learned two lessons that would later become her professional north star: Robots weren’t for students — they were expensive machines behind ropes that

What if the screen time everyone worries about… quietly turned into STEM time? In There’s a Robot in my Video Game, part of the beloved series by Dr. Carlotta A. Berry and illustrated by Anak Bulu, we meet Maya and her favorite in-game robot, Pixel. But Pixel isn’t just there to rack up points. Pixel is there to teach. And that’s where the magic happens.