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According to Dan Pink in his latest book To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, the elevator pitch needs updated. I got a chance to try out his ideas as six Baden Academy 3rd grade Research Fellows visited CMU campus to try out their own version of pitches. What the heck is an elevator …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/06/02/3rd-graders-cmu-and-the-art-of-the-elevator-pitch/
The 21st century comes with a lot of change. And all change means loss. As human beings we often don’t want to deal with loss or recognize the suffering that went into the joy of the moment (the shattered glass in the midst of the Jewish wedding ceremony). Our aversion to loss is about two …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/05/24/memorial-day-teaching-kids-the-skill-of-mourning-loss/
Book Launch Invitation Sunday June 2, 2013 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT Add to Calendar Where Baden Academy Charter School Media Lab 1016 W. State Street Baden, PA 15005 Driving Directions 21st Century Parenting: Grow a Generation is ready to launch! You are invited to join me in the celebration. Bricks4Kidz will …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/05/22/book-launch-21st-century-parenting/
“Run! Run from the dragon as fast as we can!” When my children were very little, so little their little legs moved quick but traveled slow and their attention was enraptured by every pebble, line and shadow, I grew impatient and a bit frightened by backing cars on the walk from the car to the …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/05/11/augmented-reality/
Your mission: To design an unmanned aerial search vehicle to locate a scout lost in the two mile radius of the Philmont recreation area. That was the challenge given to hundreds of teams across the country. I had a chance to sit down with the 2nd place national winners, the CCA Innovators, and learn more …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/04/27/1314/
How do we create a map and find a way to get where we want to go? A trip to the Beaver County Airport became a lesson in the history of navigation, the importance of collision alerts, and the technology of mapping a way there and back again. Second and third grade Baden Academy Media …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/04/27/finding-a-way-there-and-back-again/
Did you know that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the largest employer of engineers in the world? 37,000 civilian and military engineers under this one umbrella! Katie Bates, a young, spirited, hilarious civil engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers spoke to a group of teens and parents, professionals and teachers gathered for …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/04/14/worlds-largest-employer-of-engineers-the-us-army-corps-of-engineers/
A Groma robot dressed with orange cape, googly eyes, and lab glasses invaded the Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms at Baden Academy Charter School as part of a research project and April Fool’s joke by Ava Coups, a 3rd grader at the school. Ava is part of the Baden Academy Media Lab’s Research …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/04/02/baden-academy-invaded-by-an-evil-robot/
The ancient Romans celebrated Hilaria, the last day of the Festival of Cybele. It was a feast of joy that followed a period of fasting and mourning, a spring festival of celebration and merrymaking. Hindus celebrate Holi, a spring festival of colors that lowers the strictness of polite behavior and fills the atmosphere with excitement, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/03/30/april-fools-day/
March 14 is Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday! How are you going to celebrate? Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Around the world, people celebrate the universal language of math by recognizing …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/03/10/pi-day-is-march-14/
