Every year, we host live shows - in person and online - Around the world with all kinds of storytellers: researchers, doctors, and engineers, of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, and more. Our team’s favorite stories from those shows land on our weekly podcast. Some of the stories are heartbreaking, others are hilarious. They're all true and all very personal.

Scroll down to learn more about our work, including educational programming that aims to bring the power of science storytelling to all.

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Becoming Your Hero: Stories about embodying a role model
Becoming Your Hero: Stories about embodying a role model

While juggling climate science studies and a budding comedy career, Rollie Williams finds an unexpected niche impersonating his environmental hero, Al Gore, and Scott Acton longs to follow in Hemingway’s footsteps, but when his English teacher squashes his writing dreams, he reluctantly accepts his role as “the computer guy.”

 

Live Shows

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New York, NY - Overcoming
Sep 4
Pier 57
New York, NY - Overcoming
Pier 57

Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science at Pier 57.

Pier 57
Boise, ID - Resilience
Sep 9
The Lookout Room
Boise, ID - Resilience
The Lookout Room

The Story Collider is delighted to partner with Boise State University and share true, personal science stories from their graduate engineering students.

The Lookout Room
 

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Story Coaching 101
Sep 23
Story Coaching 101

Instructor: Erin Barker

Intro to Storytelling
Oct 27
Intro to Storytelling

Instructors: Bryan Kett and Neeti Jain

Each year, we help hundreds of STEM professionals and science enthusiasts learn to use the power of storytelling to enhance their scholarly communication, classroom teaching, public engagement, advocacy work, and more.

From guest lectures and keynote addresses to weekly seminar series to two-day retreats, our educational programming can be offered in online, hybrid, and in-person formats and customized to fit your schedule and goals.

 

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Becoming Your Hero: Stories about embodying a role model
Becoming Your Hero: Stories about embodying a role model

While juggling climate science studies and a budding comedy career, Rollie Williams finds an unexpected niche impersonating his environmental hero, Al Gore, and Scott Acton longs to follow in Hemingway’s footsteps, but when his English teacher squashes his writing dreams, he reluctantly accepts his role as “the computer guy.”

Someone Else's Shoes: Stories about understanding others perspectives
Someone Else's Shoes: Stories about understanding others perspectives

As someone who always likes to play it safe, psychologist Kenneth Carter sets out to understand what makes thrill-seekers tick, and philosophy professor Rob Reich is frustrated that so many new Stanford students are headed straight into computer science.

Sticky Fingers: Stories about theft
Sticky Fingers: Stories about theft

With a potential cancer diagnosis looming and his health insurance about to vanish, David Crabb finds an envelope stuffed with $100 bills, and when Zakiya Whatley bonds with another student in grad school, it feels like the start of a lifelong friendship – but turns out there's more to her new friend than she expected.

Then Comes A Baby?: Stories about the choice to have children
Then Comes A Baby?: Stories about the choice to have children

When a piece of her IUD breaks off, Bailey Swilley’s spirals about her choice never to have children, and Christel Bartelse takes an unconventional approach to figure out if she wants to be a mother or not.

Best of Story Collider: Acceptance
Best of Story Collider: Acceptance

Computer scientist LaShana Lewis’s childhood dream of attending Space Camp starts to feel far away — until she gets the Christmas surprise of a lifetime, and when Guizella Rocabado leaves her home in Bolivia to pursue her education in the United States, her plan hits an unexpected snag.

Green Thumb: Stories about gardening
Green Thumb: Stories about gardening

Feeling lonely after a move to New York City, Kofi Thomas finds connection, purpose, and community through a neighborhood garden, and As he fights to stay sober, Michael Hudgins throws himself into an unusual form of therapy: pulling invasive plants from a city park.

Wired Lives: Stories about brain-computer interfaces
Wired Lives: Stories about brain-computer interfaces

As his Parkinson’s symptoms worsen and medications take a toll, Brandan Mehaffie faces a life-altering decision: continue down a difficult path or undergo brain surgery to implant an electrode to stimulate deep areas of his brain, and after an accident leaves Ian Burkhart with complete tetraplegia, he grapples with losing his independence — until he’s offered a chance to participate in a groundbreaking clinical trial using muscle stimulation controlled by a brain implant to help restore movement.

Mishaps: Stories about unintended mistakes
Mishaps: Stories about unintended mistakes

In fourth grade, Ro Moran is thrilled to be trusted with the class pet iguana, Iggy, for the night. But by morning, something is very wrong, and as an exchange student studying superconducting oxides, Karoline Mueller tries to save money by gold-coating a cheap crucible instead of using a solid gold one.

Best of Story Collider: Pride
Best of Story Collider: Pride

Science educator Charlie Cook experiments with coming out to students, and marine biologist Shayle Matsuda adapts to his new identity as a transgender man while on assignment in the Philippines.

Red Flag: Stories about toxic relationships
Red Flag: Stories about toxic relationships

Carlos Maza uses the plague to analyze his brutal breakup, and Panagiota Vogdou refuses to see her boyfriend as toxic until a stranger on the bus tells her to go to therapy.