Welcome to 21st Century Education

Thank you for your passion for global education, for well-being and sustainability of our planet Earth! Thank you for your continued support for all our communities! We are honored and greatly privileged working with you all! 

 We are delighted to welcome Melissa Tata to the Board of Directors of the Global STEM Education Center. A seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in the technology and engineering sectors, Melissa has a proven track record of leading global teams to drive operational excellence and strategic initiatives. Her expertise and passion for STEM education will be invaluable to our mission of inspiring the next generation of innovators.  

Updates as of January 12, 2025:

• The 12 Annual Symposium on Global Education has been postponed to Spring 2025 
•  Our Global STEM Classroom® online collaborative programs thrived throughout 2023-2024, and we are excited to continue developing these programs with our partners in 2024-2025 academic year. Many thanks to the dedicated educators, students, and parents for their ongoing support! 
• We are proud to work with NASA GLOBE and be a US GLOBE Partner since 2014 (sponsored by NASA and supported by NOAA, NSF and Department of State)
• We are proud to collaborate with the UN Environmental Program and the Global Council for Science and the Environment (GCSE) on the Global Science Diplomacy program.
• We are proud to collaborate with the UN Institute for Training and Research in New York on the UN Sustainable Development Goals,  Global Environmental Outlook, UN Environmental Program and NASA GLOBE program.
• Professional development was held virtually in 2020-2024. Stay tuned for more information on professional development opportunities in 2025-2026.
• We have started our podcast "Conversations with educators around the world" - hope you join our discussions!
• Please, send your questions at larisa.schelkin@globalstemcenter.org

THANK YOU for your dedication to providing Global STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) 21st century Education and to increasing participation in STEM disciplines by all students to meet the needs of an innovation-driven globally competitive workforce!

Before COVID many of you have attended to The 11th Annual Symposium on Global STEM Education. It was held (in person) at Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Friday, May 24, 2019. Since then we've been conducting our events virtually. Thank you for participating and making it a great success! Many thanks to all our outstanding speakers and panelists! You can find links to the recorded on-demand sessions and a copy of our speaker's PPT presentations below.

• Keynote Talk: Frank Martin, Martin Consulting, Inc - independent reviews for NASA and NOAA Spaceflight Projects; performance enhancement for NASA and NOAA teams; The Chair of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) External Council (2015); National Research Council's Committee on Human Spaceflight; Science Mission Operations for Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 (watch a special on-demand session recording and find a PDF presentation below).

Panel Discussion: Moving Forward: Global Education Reflection of Policy & Research

• Dr. Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies; Technology, Innovation, and Education Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Education (PDF presentation below) 
• Dr. Anne DeMallie, Computer Science and STEM Integration Specialist at MA Department of Secondary and Elementary Education (DESE) (PDF presentation below) 
• Dr. Robert J. Monson, Department of Education, Policy and Social Analysis, Columbia University, NY (watch a special on-demand session recording and find a PDF presentation below).
• Ryan H. Mudawar, Senior Director, Academic & Workforce Programs, MA Life Science Center (watch a special on-demand session recording and find a PDF presentation below).

Many THANKS to Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences for hosting our Annual Symposiums on Global STEM Education since 2008!  Our very special THANKS to Professor Chris Dede from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Professor Richard Miller from MIT (former President of Franklin W.Olin College of Engineering) for your continues support for so many years! Thank you for participating in our Annual Symposiums and making it a great success! Per many requests to share the information about The 8th Annual Global STEM Education Symposium that was held at Harvard Graduate School of Education on Friday, May 6th, 2016. Our keynotes were : Alan November, November Learning and Dr. Maria Uhle, NSF Program Director for International Activities; the US representative to the Belmont Forum and the current Chair, of the Executive Committee, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). Please, find more information in the press-release and the Symposium proceedings.

Hope seeing you at our sessions on Global STEM Education at the upcoming conferences ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) International Forum, BLC (Building Learning Community), MassCUE (ISTE Affiliate), MA STEM Summit, ACFL (American Council for Teaching Foreign Languages) Convention, MASS/MASC, Global Education Forum in Philadelphia, AAC&U and at our next Annual Global Education Symposium in 2024 (TBD)!

Please find here some quotes from the 2015 symposium at Harvard: Global STEM Quotes.

The keynote by Dr. Richard Miller, President, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering delivered at our Second Annual Symposium held at Harvard University on May 29, 2015 can be found here. The second keynote delivered by Tony Wagner.

Learn more about our joint event with Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical School sponsored by NESDEC on May 29th, 2015. Hope you didn't miss our presentations at BLC2015 in Boston on July 15  & July 16 and also our presentation at CoSN/UNESCO in Washington, DC! Thank you to all participants at our sessions at BLC (Building Learning Community) in from 2009-2017!

Thank you for joining our sessions at the Global Education Forum in Philadelphia and at Massachusetts STEM Summit in Worcester, MA and at MASS/MASC Conference in Hyannis, MA and at ASEE International Colloquium on Global Engineering Workforce at URI.  Hope you have also attended our latest presentations at the Materials Research Society Conference in Boston, at the American Council on Foreign Languages Conference and at the Goldschmidt GeoChemical Society and the European Association of Geo Chemistry! Thank you for attending to our latest presentations at CoSN/METAA, at MassCUE Leadership Conference and MASC/MASS! Hope you will also join our on-going on-line discussions on global education!