Engineering Mindset 7: Children Persist and Learn from Failure Can you remember a time when you failed? Was it public–a moment when you get a pit in your stomach, your heart sinks, you hang your head, your face gets hot and you suddenly feel like the world is staring and you want to hide. Or […]
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CONTINUE READINGI was looking through my email this morning and I caught site of a BOOST blog with the above title. I have grandchildren and I’ve been using them as guinea pigs, along with the rest of the neighborhood children. It’s fascinating to watch children grow and see the various effects on children by how parents…parent. […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Lt. Governor’s Coding Challenge is a statewide coding competition for Connecticut students.
CONTINUE READINGNational Geographic is again promoting their terrific, free resources to afterschool educators.
CONTINUE READINGEngineering Mindset 5: Science and Math “Children apply science and math knowledge to problem solving: Engineers use knowledge of math and science to solve problems. They combine that knowledge with their own creativity to design technologies.” Soooo maybe you’re feeling pretty good about engineering and you’re ready to share it with the young people in […]
CONTINUE READINGEngineering Mindset #4: Criteria and Constraints If you’ve tried to solve a problem, or teach problem solving skills in a blue sky sort of format you are likely familiar with the expanse of the human imagination. Let’s consider something small like, you’ve got the day off. You just got up from a nap and everyone […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Afterschool Matters Journal is a national, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting professionalism, scholarship and consciousness in the field of afterschool education.
CONTINUE READINGWeek 4 Over the week leading up to the holiday, I spent a significant amount of time trying to get my technophobic father onto a more reliable video chatting platform. We got him a new laptop, specifically for the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas occasions. Our goal? Connect him to the family so we could all […]
CONTINUE READINGConsidering and designing with the engineering design process In our last post about the properties and use of materials we talked about finding the right materials to find the best solution to any given challenge. The more you can understand the materials you’re working with, the smarter you can work as you move into engineering […]
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