STEM Rooted in Our Earth
We live in a world where technology increasingly disconnects us from the physical earth, and traditional engineering is too often reduced to resource extraction and optimisation. As an engineer and a mother, I believe the 'T' and 'E' in STEM have taken a wrong turn.
My mission is to re-engineer education - guiding the next generation to grow up with a deep, eco-conscious context for STEM learning. Here, we don't perform magical experiments confined to our homes; instead, we go out into nature and study it. We explore the profound science behind a simple spider’s web, apply engineering to solve problems using biomimicry, use math to quantify the living world, and treat technology as a lens to see what our human senses cannot.
If you are a parent raising your child to harness technology rather than be manipulated by it, and to respect the earth rather than exploit it, you’ve found your community. Welcome to our living lab.
How Do We Approach STEM?
We use nature as our lab to explore, understand, and create things. Our approach to STEM is to spend time outdoors observing, reasoning, measuring and building things. We don't just confine STEM learning to performing magical experiments within the boundaries of our home. It starts when we step outdoors...
Science
Science is approached as during the Newtonian period, where the kid is out in nature and questions why things behave the way they do.
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Technology
In a world where AI is trying to out pace human capabilities, we empower the kids by showing them how technology is just a tool used for percieving and analysing their observations.
Engineering
Using nature as the teacher we use biomimicry to build and create things.
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Mathematics
Observations are incomplete without a quantitative approach to it.
We are a small family of three — Lakshmi, our curious and energetic 3-year-old Bubbee, and myself. As we watch Bubbee grow, we are amazed at the learning abilities and creativity that young children possess. Like many parents, we worry about the effects of digital media on her natural curiosity and imagination.
As a family, we love spending time together, creating lasting memories, and being out in nature. Both Lakshmi and I are engineers with a passion for science. Our goal is to provide Bubbee with a strong foundation to help her understand and navigate the ever-changing, complex world as she grows.