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Dean Kamen’s Mission: Trick kids into loving science and math.

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Dean Kamen, serial inventor and founder of FIRST Robotics, started FIRST with the mission of “tricking kids into loving science and math.”  Kamen saw that our kids were not interested in majoring in science, technology, engineering and math fields.  Kamen…

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The Power of Project Based Learning

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Project Base Learning is an amazing tool that literally flips the classroom. In an immersive environment, team teachers pose problems that span 4 courses (i.e. Engineering, Physics, Social Studies and Creative Writing). The teachers develop the problems so that the…

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Creating Innovators

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Creating Innovators is the title of Tony Wagner’s new book.  After extensive interviews with over 150 well known CEOs, Tony Wagner makes a powerful case for the need to develop a climate and culture that promotes the development of problem…

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