Category: Business needs

Congresswoman Foxx is the Keynote Speaker at the 1st Yadkin Bots Tournament!

The classrooms, hallways and cafeterias in all 10 of the Yadkin County North Carolina elementary and middle schools were buzzing the next school day back after the 1st Yadkin Bots Tournament  about how Congresswoman Foxx had lunch with the Yadkin

A modest investment in exciting Rural Eastern NC students about STEM pays big dividends

Warren and Bertie Counties are rural, sparsely populated and economically distressed.  Between the two counties approximately 80% of their public school students are eligible for free or reduced school lunches.  Even as optimistic as my partner Joe Kronner and I

The Power of Student Led Discovery

Teaching is one of the most challenging professions in the world. Since the advent of interactive technologies, the challenge of holding a student’s attention has become exponentially more difficult. Students live in a world of instant everything. Multi-tasking is the

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Evidence of Development of 21st Century Skills

I have always contended that measuring student outcomes should be more about what happens after they graduate. The ability to score on a standardized test tells us very little about how prepared the student is for the real world. I

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A Bold Plan

Rural, economically challenged and sparsely populated counties are becoming centers of innovation for STEM education. A catalyst for change It was 5:55 pm on a recent Friday in one of the most economically distressed counties in North Carolina. The program

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Business and Educators Partner on a Program to Excite Students about STEM

To a senior Superintendent of one of the best rated school systems in the state, it seemed strange to be talking with two business executives about the importance of exciting students about learning STEM.  It begged the question of what

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Mars landing is a tribute to NASA creativity and innovation. Can NASA help bring that passion for innovation to our classrooms?

Having spent most of my career developing new products and new ventures for consumer products companies, I can appreciate the Herculean effort required to put that lander on Mars.  The effort required a team with a mastery of science, technology,

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