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How to teach kids science through cooking

The easiest way to alienate young STEM students is to reduce scientific concepts to dry equations and bullet points on the pages of a textbook. Scientist and educator Ashwini Bhandiwad explains how cooking can teach children actionable lessons about scientific principles, allowing them to learn (and to fail) in an engaging, low stakes environment.

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The easiest way to alienate young STEM students is to reduce scientific concepts to dry equations and bullet points on the pages of a textbook. Scientist and educator Ashwini Bhandiwad explains how cooking can teach children actionable lessons about scientific principles, allowing them to learn (and to fail) in an engaging, low stakes environment.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSanFrancisco, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Ashwini Bhandiwad

Scientists. Founder, CEO, StemChef

Previously at the bioenenergy development of Energy Bioscience Institute at UC Berkeley. Developing the philosophy to teach kids science through cooking via a monthly experience boxed and delivered to their doors.

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