Developing Skills For The Future
Our world needs skilled, innovative workers. Not just any skills—but increasingly specialized as well as wide-ranging ones. According to a World Economic Forum Report, "New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and Emotional Learning Through Technology," students need to have core skills in science, mathematics and...
The VentureLab Difference: ESTEAM
What makes VentureLab different from other programs is that our entrepreneurship curriculum draws from STEM and the arts to enhance student learning. It's based on the ESTEAM framework that incorporates Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics under the umbrella of Entrepreneurship. We believe innovation and discovery...
Engage Girls in STEM: Teach Them to Be Entrepreneurs
In my experience as an educator at the university and K-12 levels, I've discovered three keys to building our pipeline of women engineers and innovators. In the previous two posts, I explored that we should enable girls to break free of stereotypes and that we...
Engage Girls in STEM: Let Them Learn From Failure
I've discovered three keys to building our pipeline of women innovators and changemakers. In my last post, I explored the first key: let girls break free of stereotypes. The second is to teach our girls to redefine and embrace failure. Studies show that many girls self-select...
Keys To Engaging Girls In STEM
Through my experience teaching at the university level, and what I myself have discovered in teaching kindergarten through 12th grade, I've identified three keys to building our pipeline of female creative leaders and innovators: help break them free from stereotypes, let them embrace failure, and...