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STEMtastic Adventures!

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Catalyzing Innovation. Connecting Champions. Transforming STEM Education.

Welcome to STEMtastic Adventures!—mEducation Alliance’s dynamic new umbrella for a constellation of STEM products and initiatives designed to spark curiosity, accelerate innovation, and empower learners around the world.

Whether you’re a policymaker, funder, implementer, researcher or teacher—or just passionate about empowering the next generation of leaders—this is your STEMtastic launchpad!

Our STEMtastic Initiatives

We’re advancing several STEMtastic initiatives including: continuing to convene global, regional, and national events; forming and supporting communities of practice of STEM champions; rolling out new communication products, such as STEMtastic Adventures! eNews and annual landscape publications; and catalyzing specific STEM initiatives (e.g., Foldscopes). Through these and other activities, STEMtastic Adventures! will bring together the people and ideas shaping the future of STEM learning, particularly in low-resource settings.

STEMtastic Adventures! Symposia

Our STEMtastic Adventures! global, regional, and national events are designed to bring together leading STEM education champions to share their experiences.

Across convenings, workshops, and showcases, we collaboratively explore:

  • How to strengthen STEM education at pre-primary, primary, and secondary education levels;

  • Opportunities to expand this instruction across formal and informal settings;

  • Evidence-driven approaches that support STEM content and training into low-resource contexts; and

  • Good practices, real-world solutions, and bold ideas ready for scalable impact.

Each of our convening events is designed to inspire, connect, and mobilize—ensuring promising solutions reach the communities that need them most.

Examples of our convening events include our 2025 regional events (e.g, Africa, Pacific) and our 2024 and 2023 STEM-themed global Symposia. Visit here to see how you join us as partners in our STEMtastic events in 2026.

The STEMtastic Global Network

The STEMtastic Global Network is our newest Community of Practice (CoP)—a hub for bold thinkers and doers committed to advancing STEM education everywhere.

Like our successful Literacy League and Math Power! CoPs, the STEMtastic Global Network offers:

  • Quarterly technical exchange dialogues

  • Peer-to-peer advisory support

  • Spaces to share resources, tools, and promising practices

  • A platform to connect with like-minded educators, implementers & organizations, and

  • Amplified visibility for proven, innovative, and scalable STEM solutions

This is where collaboration becomes momentum—and momentum becomes impact.

Click here to see who is already part of and how you can join this community.

Catalyzing STEMtastic Adventures!

STEMtastic Adventures! is driving real-world action through our growing suite of catalytic activities,  designed to accelerate innovation, strengthen ecosystems, and expand impact across the global STEM landscape. These efforts include:

  • STEM Innovation Matching Service
    We are building a matchmaking platform that connects promising STEM solution developers with aligned investors, funders, and partners—accelerating pilots, scaling opportunities, and real-world impact. 

  • Spotlighting Breakthrough Tools (like Foldscope)
    Through dedicated pages and curated resources, we showcase transformative STEM tools such as the Foldscope, helping educators and implementers bring hands-on, low-cost innovation directly into classrooms and communities.

  • Global STEM Presentation Hub
    We are curating easy access to standout STEM presentations and insights from events across the world—offering educators, policymakers, and practitioners a powerful library of cutting-edge ideas ready for adoption and adaptation.

STEMtastic Global Network Landscape Report

This inaugural publication highlights the work of 25+ STEM organizations who are part of mEA’s STEMtastic Global Network, a technical exchange platform designed to share experiences and strengthen professional and institutional capacities. SGN organizations work across global, regional, and national contexts.

Drawing from members of this community, the landscape report features their 2025 initiatives and 2026 aspirations, showcasing a broad range of work spanning foundational learning, teacher training, hands-on STEM, AI integration, offline EdTech, coding and robotics, data literacy, and pathways to STEM careers.

Why STEMtastic Adventures! Matters

Around the world, millions of learners, especially in under-resourced settings, lack access to high-quality, engaging STEM experiences. But the future demands thinkers, tinkerers, and problem-solvers in every community.

STEMtastic Adventures! exists to:

  • Democratize STEM opportunities

  • Elevate evidence-based solutions

  • Bridge global and local innovations

  • Connect champions who may not otherwise meet

  • Spark new initiatives, funding pathways, and cross-regional collaboration

Join the STEMtastic Movement

Whether you want to collaborate, learn, innovate, or contribute, there’s a place for you here!  Together, we can expand opportunities for every learner and drive bold solutions to the most pressing global challenges.

Join the STEMtastic Global Network Today!

Jax Chaudhry

Jax Chaudhry leads Project Invent, a national nonprofit that empowers youth with future ready mindsets for individual success and global impact, through invention. Originally from the Southside of Chicago, Jax loves working with students, families and partners to ensure every student can attain success as they define it. For more than 10 years, she has worked with elementary schools, high schools, education nonprofits and led regional teams and operations to ensure student success.

Michael Leventhal

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning scienceMichael Leventhal is co-founder of RobotsMali, a pedagogical and AI4D laboratory and STEM education center in Bamako, Mali. RobotsMali has trained thousands of students from elementary school to high school in computer science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, coached national robotics teams that have won 32 medals in international competitions, and developed technologies using AI and robotics for the social and economic development of Mali. Before becoming an educator in Mali, Michael worked as a technologist in Silicon Valley.s, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.

Enouce Ndeche

Enouce Ndeche is the founder and Director of Vijana Amani Pamoja ,VAP a community scheme based in Nairobi Kenya that uses the power and the popularity of the game of soccer/football as a catalyst for social, educational and economic empowerment.Enouce holds a degree in sociology from Egerton university and he is also the 2020 individual award recipient “Diversity and Inclusion Eminent Leader Award Enouce is also a certified Sports Philanthropy and Executive, George Washington University and is a 2023 Gratitude Network fellow.

Kenneth Y T Lim

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.