Fortune Magazine recently quoted Jess Lee, a former Google product manager who is having trouble staffing her profitable startup; “I think this might be the worst engineering market ever.The kinds of offers they’re giving out are astronomical.” The article goes on to explain the average annual salary for Google software engineers now hovers around $143,000 …
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Jul 28
A programming and game design team of Jr. High Students at the Engineer Your Passion Workshop created a game to highlight the Cranberry Community Chest Volunteer Firefighter Initiative. The students were led by StormC, the Grow a Generation Research Fellow who specializing in developing Scratch Programming opportunities to make meaningful projects. Press the green flag and …
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Mar 29
FedEx opened their doors to five Baden Academy research fellows who journeyed to Neville Island to learn more about the technology behind the accurate and safe delivery of packages. The fascinating and thought provoking tour was part of 5th grade Owen R-K’s fellows project to research and test a new identification system for students to …
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Feb 28
New technologies are becoming available to entrepreneurs, students, artists, and those of us who want have an insatiable desire for lifelong learning and playing with the latest toys. Just a few quick examples… TechShop offers access to training and use of amazing equipment such as 3D Printers, Casting Kilns, Computer Programmable Embroidery Machines (yes – …
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Feb 22
By Arvind and Sanjay Seshan Welcome to guest bloggers Arvind and Sanjay Seshan! Arvind and Sanjay are members of Not the Droids You Are Looking For (www.droidsrobotics.org), a FIRST Lego League (www.firstlegoleague.org) team based in Pittsburgh, PA. They have had a very successful four seasons, winning a Champions trophy and Robot Performance trophy every year of …
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Dec 30
From 2 Kitty Whisperers speaking at a law conference to students serving aboard the Orion Spacecraft as virtual crew members, it was an eventful year for Grow a Generation. Here’s a selection of 2014’s highlights AUTHORS 5th grade author and animal advocate Veronica was nominated by the ASPCA for the Humane Kid of the …
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Nov 23
Code.org created something ingenious. The plethora of learn it yourself fun game-like software design programs have created this bite-sized introductions and made it available for free on their website the week of December 8-14. How do you take part? Librarians from Beaver County attended an inservice last week and learned all about Scratch Programming – …
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Nov 01
CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY OF BEAVER FALLS Presents Create stories, games, and animations! Learn to empower young learners create computer animations and games with meaningful projects and challenges. WHEN: Friday, November 14th, 8:30am to 2:00pm WHERE: Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls COST: Free REGISTER: Jean Ann Barsotti [email protected] 724.846.4340 DOWNLOAD FLYER AND REGISTRATION
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Apr 19
Grow a Generation is holding some exciting Camps at Baden Academy this summer! SUMMER CAMPS @ BADEN ACADEMY Mon-Fri, Jun 16-20 9:30-3:00 History of Robotics(Grades 3-8) Are you ready for the Google driverless car? It is on the roads in California, Florida, Nevada and Michigan. Spend a week exploring the history of autonomous robotics as we …
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Nov 15
A New Kind of Yin Yang Rotation from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Frederick Wu Mathematics, like the air we breathe, is part of every subject we study, image we gaze on, and sound we hear. To hear someone say they don’t have the math gene, strikes me with the same sadness as to hear …
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