Curiosity: Growing Resillient Lifelong Learners
When we encourage a child to follow her curiosity, she discovers so much more on her own. Becoming attuned to her instincts helps a girl engage and entertain herself without requiring external stimulation like television and video games. Instead of drifting toward disengagement, she sharpens her...
Culitivating a Curiosity Cycle in Children
Jonathan Mugan is a robot guy, a computer scientist who devotes time to studying how children learn. By understanding the minds of children, especially preschoolers, its possible for humans to create robots that can learn in similar ways. Mugan dissects how children learn by building mental...
The Struggle to Engage Girls in Steam Subjects
Too few girls pursue careers in technology, computer science, engineering, and the complement of eSTEAM subjects. All over the country, parents, teachers and industry leaders have studied, surveyed, incentivized, intervened, mentored, recruited. They've done everything they think they can do to encourage more girls to pursue...
From Student to Budding Entrepreneur
In my last two posts, I've been sharing the story of Bri Connelly, who learned grit and determination in devoting herself to dance—which proved invaluable as she moved into computer science (she is now an associate product manager at Google). While Bri Connelly was studying at...
Finding the Grounding Force to Compete as a Woman
In my last post, I began sharing the story of Bri Connelly, who is now an associate product manager at Google. She learned a lot about grit and determination from putting in the time to master dance as a young woman. She hadn’t yet moved...