For those of us who are looking for last minute holiday gifts, we loved these ideas from Melinda Gates. It’s great to see so many people innovating products designed for young scientists. Just about every kid we know is a scientist at heart. (Don’t you have to be to figure out this world?) Finding toys and games …
Ascendly has expanded to Massachusetts! We are excited to bring our great classes to students in the Boston metro area. Our first schools are in Belmont and we are eager to expand to other towns. Please contact us if you are interested in bringing Ascendly into your school and let us know if you have …
JJ and I were teaching a class last week to K-2 graders on building bridges. While we had showed them some techniques, a lot of the kids, especially the younger ones, had some trouble building the part of the bridge that is suspended in the air. It is not immediately obvious, I admit, to figure …
Today our family visited the truly awesome USA Science and Engineering Festival at the Mt. Vernon Convention Center in Washington. There were overwhelming amounts of exhibitors and shows and the place was absolutely packed. The exhibitors included everyone from companies like Lockheed Martin to elementary schools to college-level engineering and science departments. It was terrific to see …
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The debate about the sources of weakness in American students’ test scores vis-a-vis those students in other countries continues. The most recent addition to this debate comes in the form of some research recently released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD) in conjunction with the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and recently reported …
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This weekend, we had the opportunity to share our concept with a middle school teacher (who also happens to be my cousin). As we spoke to her, we realized that our dream to reach kids from K-12 might be a little harder than we first thought. The problem? How to appeal to the pre-teen. It’s …
When JJ and I first started working on the Capital Robot Club and talking to parents of kids involved, we began to believe we had stumbled upon something special. We live in a nice Northern Virginia suburb of Washington DC and send our first grader to public school in Fairfax County, one of the best …
