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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Dec 02
My students and I are heading into space!
Blast off is this Thursday, December 4, 2014, 7 am. Students from Baden Academy and from Grow a Generation workshops earned their spot as virtual crew members aboard the Orion Spacecraft. Congratulations Zoe, Lexi, Ava, Bryant, Emily and Glorian! I got my ticket … Get your child excited! Consider …
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May 19
Be Part of History: Have Your Name on the Virtual Crew of the 2014 Launch of NASA’s new Orion Spacecraft
The first mission for NASA’s new Orion spacecraft is scheduled to launch in September 2014 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Join Grow a Generation on Saturday, May 24, from 11 to 3 for an Engineering Saturday and students K-8 can work to have their names submitted for recognition in the Virtual Crew …
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Jul 20
Space Robots, Sequestration, and the Still Contemplation of the Night Sky
I was so excited yesterday to get an email from Astrobotic confirming a student tour during the week of the August 5th Space Robots Camp. Astrobotic is a CMU spin off company that has been in the news recently. NASA choose the company to develop autonomous robots to search for ice on the moon in …
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Nov 09
Clean Drinking Water: An Engineering Challenge for 4 Fellowships
“Choose a threat to your city’s water supply and design a resilient system to maintain a reliable supply of clean drinking water.” That is the challenge of this year’s Future City Competition. While Future City is focused on a hypothetical scenario in planning for a city 50 years in the future, we have fellowships working …
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Sep 29
Inspiring Hope
I was at the Harvest Festival this weekend supporting many of our Fellows. One quiet moment allowed me to share some news with Alyssa Westrom, there to promote the book she co-authored “Engineering Wings to the Sun.” Alyssa, now in 7th grade at Lincoln Park, had received a letter addressed to our school to her …
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Aug 13
Play NYC
This past weekend I was given a great opportunity by the Games for Change organization to be able to visit the Play NYC event put together by Playcrafting. While there are many conferences for the games industry every year, Play NYC had a feel very few can reproduce. Unlike your every year E3, Comic Con‘s, …
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Jun 16
Four Teachers named Grow a Generation Distinguished Educators at Baden Academy
Four teachers at Baden Academy Charter School have been named 2019 Grow a Generation Distinguished Educators. Each volunteered to work hard in a year-long fellowship project that helped hone their craft of teaching. Each project expanded knowledge of content and pedagogy, involved the students in their own learning, empowered students to act in new ways, …
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May 26
Celebrating STEM in a K-6 school
Our company, Grow a Generation, has had the distinct pleasure to contract with a wonderful public charter school in Western Pennsylvania for the last seven years. We provide research fellowships to teams of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders as they develop meaningful projects using science, technology, engineering and math. This week we celebrate our …
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