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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
