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Find Your Passion

Join us for an adventure into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) future possibilities.  You bring their own personality, likes and dislikes, pet peeves and favorite things.  You encounter what leaders have identified as the grand challenges of our century in engineering and in sustainability. You explore start ups awarded top innovation prizes. And, you …

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Unemployed and Underemployed College Graduates

A May 2015 Washington Post article by Ylan Q. Mui quoted a few startling statistics for parents and kids to keep in mind as the flurry of college application season begins. A Bachelor’s degree doesn’t come with guarantees The unemployment rate for recent graduates is just over 5 percent Underemployment (college graduates people working in jobs …

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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2015/09/20/unemployed-and-underemployed-college-graduates/

Encountering a 305,000 pound robot in Vegas!

“Really, that’s what you noticed?!”  (comment of my husband after the show) We happened into tickets to the phenomenal Cirque de Soleil show KÀ in Vegas.  The music, the story, the actors, the costumes were all extraordinary, but what caught my attention was the robot!  Performers fought, danced, leaped, climbed and fell from what appears …

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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2015/06/18/3286/

My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part One: Are there jobs out there?

Tim Ferris’s recent blog “How to Build an App Empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?” describes Chad Muerta’s story. Recovering from a car accident,Chad left his real estate job and started an app business from his iPhone.  “In just over two years, I’ve created and sold three app companies that have generated millions in …

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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2012/04/26/my-child-wants-to-design-video-games-part-one-are-there-jobs-out-there/