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GoldieBlox Makes Engineering a Girl Thing!
Listen up, girls! Engineering is cool! That’s the message that GoldieBlox inventor Debbie Sterling, a Stanford University-educated engineer, is passionate about sharing. Designed for girls ages six and older, GoldieBlox is a storybook and construction set that challenges girls to help the inventor protagonist Goldie, build things. We can all remember reading childhood fairy tales about princesses in distress ultimately …
Stanford Builds Strong Innovators with New “Design Thinking” Curriculum
PALO ALTO, California—The skylit atrium that serves as the centerpiece of Stanford University’s d.school spans two of the campus’s stately old red-tile-roofed, Spanish Revival-style academic buildings. It’s a metaphor for the way the center, spun off by the School of Engineering, bridges other parts of the university to teach something that was once believed innate: how to think like an …
Science-Minded Kids to Show Projects at MIT
The weather is finally turning to Spring… so what’s up for the weekend? At our house, the schedule is often packed with the kids’ sports and other activities and the weekends fly by too fast. But, maybe you can find time to squeeze in something different – the state science fair. The Massachusetts State Science & Engineering Fair (MSSEF) for …
Art, Design Educational Needs Pushing STEM To STEAM
A push for better U.S. art and design education is changing STEM to STEAM. Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) have long been the Holy Grail of a U.S. drive for improved education, producing students who can compete globally. But a growing chorus says art and design must be in the mix. The STEAM movement has wide-ranging support from academia, …
Engineering for Humanity: Local Students and Seniors Team Up
The first time Shubhangini Prakash had to propel herself to the bathroom in a wheelchair at a local council on aging activities center, she almost gave up in frustration. Prakash was only sampling what life was like for people with limited mobility. But she says it was her “aha” moment. “I never realized how hard it is,” the 27-year-old MBA …
Don’t Worry; Today’s Kids Are Smarter Than You Think
Quick – what is the temperature at which water boils? Correct, 100 degrees. But what about in Fahrenheit? Yes, 212. But did you know this when you were seven years old? Last weekend, my son and husband went to a cryogenics workshop at H3XL in Burlington, MA. And the second- and third-graders in that class were able to rattle off …
15 Ways to Spot a Future Engineer
Are some people natural born engineers? Does engineering ability run in the family, like artistic or musical talent? Engineering is hot right now, and continues to top the list of highest-paying college majors. But, it takes more than desire to be an engineer; it takes passion, ability and academic rigor. How can you spot that passion in children as they …
Engineers and Scientists Get the Gift of the Gab
Bob the Stem Cell, all squiggly lines and eyes, stares out from under a hard hat at an audience of 500 people in Dublin’s Smock Alley Theatre. “He was a construction worker once, and built up all our bodies,” the presenter, Thomas Schwarzl, is explaining, one hand on a microphone and the other gesturing at Bob, whose caricature is projected …
Bid to Boost Women Engineers Abroad Works Both Ways
When 42 technology-minded women from the Middle East and North Africa were paired up with mentors from the United States, it was hard to tell who learned more from the experience. TechWomen, a little-known annual initiative, pushed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and just wrapping up its second year, is set up to encourage African and middle-eastern women to …
STEM Makes Its Way into Elementary Schools
A sudden hush comes over the Thomas Hart Benton Elementary School every morning as the principal reads a riddle over the public-address system. “With ‘ro,’ it’s gone, you’ve nothing, all right,” he says slowly, as little hands write down the clue with pencils on wide-lined paper. “With ‘bra,’ a black horse, with stripes of white.” All day long, children who …
