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21st Century Job Tour

I was able to collaborate, as part of my work with the Beaver County STEM group, on a middle school student tour of Google’s Pittsburgh offices, the Pitt Engineering Prototype Lab, and the interesting work environment of Inventionland.  Students from all around Beaver County, represented cyber schools, home schools, brick and mortars, and several local …

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Surprising New Resources Rising Up in Gifted Education

A friend, a phenomenal mom who helps provide her family a safe and loving home, who drives her kids from martial arts to sports to scouts to dance to Church, who volunteers alongside them with the handicapped and the poor, recently returned from a parent conference for her daughter. The school apologized they didn’t recognize …

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Imagineers and STEM Education

“We are not preparing children for the world we have lived in but for a future that we can barely imagine.” Gordon Brown, former dean of the MIT EngineeringSchool. Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?, differentiates between a politically conservative attitude of scarcity and ‘can’t do’ and an innovative engineering attitude of abundance and …

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