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Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers
Deep in space, on Mars, a robot rover searches for traces of water, one of the key things needed to support life. Back on Earth, Dr. Vandi Verma guides the robot, Curiosity, in its search. People all around the world were enchanted by animations like Princess and the Frog and Bravest Warriors, but before they ever hit the screen, Sonya Carey imagined and designed them. These are just some of the colorful careers of these Everyday Superheroes making the world a greener, healthier, and cleaner place.
Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers will spur reader's imaginations and introduce them to 26 STEM careers (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Readers will:
- Learn about STEM real-life superheroes from an environmental lawyer to a robotics engineer.
- see diverse women working in STEM and changing the world.
- explore six superpowers important to STEM fields: curiosity, observation, problem solving, collaboration, data-collection and communication.
- Discover how dreams and imagination can lead to an exciting STEM career.
Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers will spur reader's imaginations and introduce them to 26 STEM careers (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Readers will:
- Learn about STEM real-life superheroes from an environmental lawyer to a robotics engineer.
- see diverse women working in STEM and changing the world.
- explore six superpowers important to STEM fields: curiosity, observation, problem solving, collaboration, data-collection and communication.
- Discover how dreams and imagination can lead to an exciting STEM career.
88 pages, Paperback
Published March 15, 2019
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About the author
Erin Twamley
11 books6 followersErin Twamley is working to create a new generation of Everyday STEM Superheroes. As an author and educator, her STEM publications focus on sharing the adventures of diverse STEM professionals and their use of six STEM superpowers. Currently, she has authored three non-fiction STEM-focused books for children ages 8-14 years old with three new books currently in the works. The newest STEM book release Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers shares stories of 26 diverse women in STEM.
Erin provides author and S.T.E.M. encounters for schools to encourage the next generation of STEM professionals. She can be reached at erinedu365@gmail.com
Erin provides author and S.T.E.M. encounters for schools to encourage the next generation of STEM professionals. She can be reached at erinedu365@gmail.com
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July 29, 2019
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If asked to name STEM careers many of us will immediately form a mental image of an astronaut, maybe even a paleontologist or zoologist, but few of us are likely to imagine many of the careers explored in Everyday Superheroes Women in STEM Careers (2019). These careers include virtual-world creator, cartographer, environmental lawyer, and machine learning engineer. This book provides a much-needed look at a variety of science, technology, math, and engineering jobs as well as women’s contributions to them.
The writers behind the text, Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneidman, do a great job bringing STEM careers to life, and illustrating their practical dimensions. Even more, each career is discussed through a woman contributing to it! The women, who are pioneers in their respective fields, are beautifully diverse. For instance, Dr. Wanda Diaz Merced is an astronomer who developed a technique for turning visual data into sound files when she became blind due to illness. This allowed her to continue her research into gamma-ray bursts. Twenty-six dynamic careers are explored in enough detail to encourage reader interest without being overwhelmingly text heavy.
I really appreciate the questions posed to readers throughout the book. For instance, after describing the work of a virtual-world creator, the authors pose a question to readers: “What problem could we solve with VR? Think of a problem and draw a picture of the solution in your VR world.” This prompts readers to actively imagine themselves participating in STEM fields while practicing critical thinking and problem-solving skills integral to most professional fields.
The book closes with a wonderful glossary and brief list of recommended texts to pair with Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers.
Accessibly written and formatted this engaging read is sure to appeal to a variety of young readers and will become a staple of many kindergarten through third grade classrooms!
I would have loved to see racial and ethnic information explicitly discussed instead of presented only through rather cartoonish illustrations. Identifying this information for readers would have provided another access point for identification.
Overall, this is a wonderful and wonderfully teachable text! It can easily complement school activities focused on STEM, biography, or careers. The writing is straight-forward and accessible for newer independent readers. Because the descriptions of careers and women professionals can stand alone, sections can be read aloud for younger learners who lack the attention span to focus on the book cover-to-cover.
I highly recommend Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers for personal and classroom use. It brings the often hidden world of STEM to life, and shows how integral it is to our everyday lives, while highlighting important contributions of amazing women STEM superheroes!
If asked to name STEM careers many of us will immediately form a mental image of an astronaut, maybe even a paleontologist or zoologist, but few of us are likely to imagine many of the careers explored in Everyday Superheroes Women in STEM Careers (2019). These careers include virtual-world creator, cartographer, environmental lawyer, and machine learning engineer. This book provides a much-needed look at a variety of science, technology, math, and engineering jobs as well as women’s contributions to them.
The writers behind the text, Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneidman, do a great job bringing STEM careers to life, and illustrating their practical dimensions. Even more, each career is discussed through a woman contributing to it! The women, who are pioneers in their respective fields, are beautifully diverse. For instance, Dr. Wanda Diaz Merced is an astronomer who developed a technique for turning visual data into sound files when she became blind due to illness. This allowed her to continue her research into gamma-ray bursts. Twenty-six dynamic careers are explored in enough detail to encourage reader interest without being overwhelmingly text heavy.
I really appreciate the questions posed to readers throughout the book. For instance, after describing the work of a virtual-world creator, the authors pose a question to readers: “What problem could we solve with VR? Think of a problem and draw a picture of the solution in your VR world.” This prompts readers to actively imagine themselves participating in STEM fields while practicing critical thinking and problem-solving skills integral to most professional fields.
The book closes with a wonderful glossary and brief list of recommended texts to pair with Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers.
Accessibly written and formatted this engaging read is sure to appeal to a variety of young readers and will become a staple of many kindergarten through third grade classrooms!
I would have loved to see racial and ethnic information explicitly discussed instead of presented only through rather cartoonish illustrations. Identifying this information for readers would have provided another access point for identification.
Overall, this is a wonderful and wonderfully teachable text! It can easily complement school activities focused on STEM, biography, or careers. The writing is straight-forward and accessible for newer independent readers. Because the descriptions of careers and women professionals can stand alone, sections can be read aloud for younger learners who lack the attention span to focus on the book cover-to-cover.
I highly recommend Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers for personal and classroom use. It brings the often hidden world of STEM to life, and shows how integral it is to our everyday lives, while highlighting important contributions of amazing women STEM superheroes!
July 6, 2019
“Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers” by Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman, a non-fiction book with full color illustrations, is meant to make kids, and especially girls, excited about STEM careers.
The book covers 26 careers in STEM, one for each alphabet letter. Every career is introduced together with some related concepts and tools as well as a case of a modern woman in this career. There is also an introduction to six STEM skills (observation, collaboration, imagination and curiosity, problem solving, data collection and analysis, and communication) at the beginning of the book. Each STEM skill (or STEM superpower) has a list of related instruments and one or two examples of women using the skill in their STEM-related work.
What I especially liked about this book:
- It includes many new career paths that are less known to the general public (e.g. weatherization technician or director of sustainability).
- It is interactive, containing many questions to the readers and making them think and take action by drawing or writing their ideas and thoughts. This is a great way to spark kids’ curiosity and imagination.
- It contains a lot of curious facts about the past and more recent discoveries and inventions made by women.
- The backgrounds of the women featured are very diverse: they come from different world regions and disciplines.
- There are quite a few careers related to environmental protection, climate change and green energy, which are some of the current challenges that kids should be aware of and interested to tackle.
- It breaks a common myth about scientists working mostly in labs and shows that STEM is everywhere.
- There is a glossary of the terms mentioned throughout the book.
What could be improved:
- The book makes references to some specific brands and companies, while generic descriptions would have been more appropriate, in my opinion, to make the content less prone to getting outdated or even considered sponsored (which I don’t believe is true).
- Some careers presented in the book are not clearly associated with STEM, though may benefit from STEM knowledge and skills (e.g. environmental lawyer or fashion designer).
- Some questions to the readers may not be relatable to all kids, such as those about mobile apps, online shopping experience or step-tracking software, as many kids don’t own cell phones and don’t buy stuff online.
- There is an inconsistency in the dates of the creation of the first map of the stars by four Vatican nuns: in one place it is between 1887-1889, while in the other it is 1910.
Overall, it is a good non-fiction book introducing kids to amazing STEM careers that may spark their first interest in STEM.
The book covers 26 careers in STEM, one for each alphabet letter. Every career is introduced together with some related concepts and tools as well as a case of a modern woman in this career. There is also an introduction to six STEM skills (observation, collaboration, imagination and curiosity, problem solving, data collection and analysis, and communication) at the beginning of the book. Each STEM skill (or STEM superpower) has a list of related instruments and one or two examples of women using the skill in their STEM-related work.
What I especially liked about this book:
- It includes many new career paths that are less known to the general public (e.g. weatherization technician or director of sustainability).
- It is interactive, containing many questions to the readers and making them think and take action by drawing or writing their ideas and thoughts. This is a great way to spark kids’ curiosity and imagination.
- It contains a lot of curious facts about the past and more recent discoveries and inventions made by women.
- The backgrounds of the women featured are very diverse: they come from different world regions and disciplines.
- There are quite a few careers related to environmental protection, climate change and green energy, which are some of the current challenges that kids should be aware of and interested to tackle.
- It breaks a common myth about scientists working mostly in labs and shows that STEM is everywhere.
- There is a glossary of the terms mentioned throughout the book.
What could be improved:
- The book makes references to some specific brands and companies, while generic descriptions would have been more appropriate, in my opinion, to make the content less prone to getting outdated or even considered sponsored (which I don’t believe is true).
- Some careers presented in the book are not clearly associated with STEM, though may benefit from STEM knowledge and skills (e.g. environmental lawyer or fashion designer).
- Some questions to the readers may not be relatable to all kids, such as those about mobile apps, online shopping experience or step-tracking software, as many kids don’t own cell phones and don’t buy stuff online.
- There is an inconsistency in the dates of the creation of the first map of the stars by four Vatican nuns: in one place it is between 1887-1889, while in the other it is 1910.
Overall, it is a good non-fiction book introducing kids to amazing STEM careers that may spark their first interest in STEM.
August 1, 2019
A wonderful text that explores STEM superpowers while sharing how extraordinary women are helping our world thrive through their Science related careers. Highly recommend for grades 3 and up!
March 19, 2019
Everyday Superheroes was borne as part of a Kickstarter project. Its goal is to help raise awareness of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. A picture book targeting primary grades, it offers twenty-six women (cute alphabetical organization) who have made major contributions in STEM fields. Ranging from the well-known (Eugenie Clark) to the less well-known (Lyndsey Scott), each of the women featured has a short biography and an explanation of their field. Twamley also provides a discussion of the gifts that are the hallmark of those who are drawn to the STEM fields- observation, imagination/curiosity, problem solving, collaborative abilities, data-based analytical thinking, and communication skills.
If you have a daughter, a granddaughter, a niece, a goddaughter, or if you simply know a female child who shows an interest in science, building, or technology, this is a wonderful book for her. Twamley and Sneideman show twenty-six women who have achieved success in their fields and who provide an optimistic outlook for the women STEM researchers of our future.
You can check out the book here on Amazon or learn more over on Kickstarter.
I received a Digital Review Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
If you have a daughter, a granddaughter, a niece, a goddaughter, or if you simply know a female child who shows an interest in science, building, or technology, this is a wonderful book for her. Twamley and Sneideman show twenty-six women who have achieved success in their fields and who provide an optimistic outlook for the women STEM researchers of our future.
You can check out the book here on Amazon or learn more over on Kickstarter.
I received a Digital Review Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
May 23, 2019
Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman’s Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers is a charming read with vibrant illustrations that fully awaken the senses and imagination. Although geared to a middle-school aged demographic, not all of us adults know about historical, and current figures in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) as well as the array of specialties it covers. Unique is the book’s focus on women of diverse communities, with particular encouragement for girls to explore STEM; an accessible primer into so many career possibilities. Although for any readers, this book encourages further reading and engagement about how STEM has an impact on our daily lives, and on future generations. Aside from a classroom setting, I imagine that Everyday Superheroes would make for a wonderfully engaging shared read between parents and children, both girls and boys, that promotes discussion and the imagination.
June 7, 2019
The recipe for this book wins! We loved the interactive checklists and spaces for writing, but also the format which helped us learn about more STEM careers and the remarkable women who greatly added to our knowledge and understanding of how things work. The engaging illustrations held our attention and the glossary was helpful for my 9-year-old. This will be sure to fly off the shelf in the school library for fans of the Who is/Who Was series as well as the Ordinary People Change the World series.
November 8, 2019
Not all scientists are dead or old. Where is a book that talks about the amazing women scientists of today? Enter EVERYDAY SCIENTISTS.
Everyday Superheroes has set out on a mission to be sure readers don't forget about #ActualLivingScientists. This incredible book is written by two teachers who know from their own extensive education what to include and how to interest young readers. Everyday Superheroes lists women in career fields from A-Z at the cutting edge of making the world a better place through STEM.
These include women leading efforts to creating the spacesuits that will fit our women astronauts so we would watch the first all women space walk.
Women like Helen Situ shaping the future of learning in classrooms with Virtual Reality.
Women like Tara Houska who handles the legal work for Honor the Earth, a native led organization who fights against oil pipelines and highways that negatively impact indigenous communities as well as our planet.
Of course there are STEM careers most kids know about like Engineers and marine biologists. However, exploring the world of 3D animation, vertical farming, and genetics are sure to give readers new role models that are making a real difference in the world.
If you can see it, you can be it. This book is not only a wonderful addition to your classroom and home shelves, it is FULL of inspiration for young girls especially who may feel discouraged or in doubt of their future because of male dominated fields. It shows them there is in fact a sisterhood that is ready to stand with them. Due to the urgency of climate justice right now, this book also facilitates further reading and discussions about how STEM has an impact on our daily lives, and on future generations.
Although the book would be suitable as a read aloud for K-2 in sections, it is geared towards middle grades.
I was given a copy of this book by the author to facilitate this review. All opinions, as always are my own.
Everyday Superheroes has set out on a mission to be sure readers don't forget about #ActualLivingScientists. This incredible book is written by two teachers who know from their own extensive education what to include and how to interest young readers. Everyday Superheroes lists women in career fields from A-Z at the cutting edge of making the world a better place through STEM.
These include women leading efforts to creating the spacesuits that will fit our women astronauts so we would watch the first all women space walk.
Women like Helen Situ shaping the future of learning in classrooms with Virtual Reality.
Women like Tara Houska who handles the legal work for Honor the Earth, a native led organization who fights against oil pipelines and highways that negatively impact indigenous communities as well as our planet.
Of course there are STEM careers most kids know about like Engineers and marine biologists. However, exploring the world of 3D animation, vertical farming, and genetics are sure to give readers new role models that are making a real difference in the world.
If you can see it, you can be it. This book is not only a wonderful addition to your classroom and home shelves, it is FULL of inspiration for young girls especially who may feel discouraged or in doubt of their future because of male dominated fields. It shows them there is in fact a sisterhood that is ready to stand with them. Due to the urgency of climate justice right now, this book also facilitates further reading and discussions about how STEM has an impact on our daily lives, and on future generations.
Although the book would be suitable as a read aloud for K-2 in sections, it is geared towards middle grades.
I was given a copy of this book by the author to facilitate this review. All opinions, as always are my own.
July 3, 2021
I would call this a magazine that educates kids about STEM than a novel. It has a lot of variable inputs that may aid in expanding the ever-widening synapses of our young ones. Do we know what STEM signifies, essentially it stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. A young introduction to STEM is a boon rather than a bane because in the already exhausting career options and the obligatory practices done in school the children come to know the opportunities in STEM careers, if not they just can move out of the science stream.
As a matter of fact, the magazine has been designed quite well, it includes a vivid explanation of and all about STEM and we also get footnotes and other trivia that might shine in the minds of little readers. It is colourful and the visualization helps attract the young eyes and the minds behind. Having within encrusted the true meaning of feminism, the women who are divining the skies, judging the projectiles firing through space, or even studying the rocks of our geography. Those inspirational names, which I am not revealing because they form an integral part of the book, therefore remaining unencumbered at the heart of the book is advised.
Science is not the light of the world, as since its inception and the boom in engineering and other related fields, now is a time where there are ample amounts working in those areas. So if we want to initiate more into the same, we should make sure that they are willing by heart and not because of circumstances. We should let our children decide what they seek for their destiny, if that be a career at STEM this is a great book to start, but if not I am sure they will create their own world. As STEM or not every work is a success if you are delighted to do that.
As a matter of fact, the magazine has been designed quite well, it includes a vivid explanation of and all about STEM and we also get footnotes and other trivia that might shine in the minds of little readers. It is colourful and the visualization helps attract the young eyes and the minds behind. Having within encrusted the true meaning of feminism, the women who are divining the skies, judging the projectiles firing through space, or even studying the rocks of our geography. Those inspirational names, which I am not revealing because they form an integral part of the book, therefore remaining unencumbered at the heart of the book is advised.
Science is not the light of the world, as since its inception and the boom in engineering and other related fields, now is a time where there are ample amounts working in those areas. So if we want to initiate more into the same, we should make sure that they are willing by heart and not because of circumstances. We should let our children decide what they seek for their destiny, if that be a career at STEM this is a great book to start, but if not I am sure they will create their own world. As STEM or not every work is a success if you are delighted to do that.
December 21, 2019
When you speak about jobs in the STEM industry, you always think about men doing them. The saying ‘It’s a men’s world’ is slowly but surely becoming something of the past.
More and more women are taking places in this area but unfortunately they still seem to remain hidden.
The author puts some of these ladies in the more than deserved spotlight in a very pleasant way. The book has a pretty nice layout and is attractive to leaf through (and read of course).
It’s also very educative and I learned a lot. I also like the way the author has added some assignments to carry out for those who want to.
I think it would be really interesting to use this book in the classroom. 5 stars.
Thank you, Erin Twamley for making this such a enjoyable and worthwhile read.
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More and more women are taking places in this area but unfortunately they still seem to remain hidden.
The author puts some of these ladies in the more than deserved spotlight in a very pleasant way. The book has a pretty nice layout and is attractive to leaf through (and read of course).
It’s also very educative and I learned a lot. I also like the way the author has added some assignments to carry out for those who want to.
I think it would be really interesting to use this book in the classroom. 5 stars.
Thank you, Erin Twamley for making this such a enjoyable and worthwhile read.
https://bforbookreview.wordpress.com
August 30, 2019
This was a great book introducing different STEM careers and skills. I really liked the diversity of people and jobs represented in the book and it was written at an appropriate level for young children. I received a digital copy in return for my honest review, but I plan on purchasing books to give to my friends' kids!
January 1, 2021
🏆 2020 BIBA® Children’s Middle Grade Winner!
February 24, 2020
Twenty-six stereotyping myth busting stories with an engaging, colorful format to encourage teens to pursue STEM carriers before they cast such thoughts aside as unattainable. True stories of diverse women to help all girls identify with at least some of the people. Diverse careers are also portrayed for different interests, talents, and abilities to help teens to aspire to one or more subject areas. Long needed and greatly appreciated!
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