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STARBASE Robins Summer Camps brings STEM and entrepreneurship to life for Georgia youth

August 30, 2023August 30, 2023 by VentureLab

VentureLab Idea to Pitch Summer Program with Starbase Robins

Through a scholarship to VentureLab’s Idea to Pitch Program, facilitated by the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network, STARBASE Robins’ annual STEM Summer Camps became a transformative experience. One educator noted, “I am just overall proud of myself for completing the process and getting students excited about entrepreneurship.” This partnership has fostered confidence, creativity, and leadership in students and staff alike.

Fostering Frontiers of Knowledge in Youth

September 6, 2022January 5, 2020 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

What if you don’t have the answers to a child’s questions? What if you can’t even begin to guess? That’s okay. In fact, it may be even better for a child’s development!

Making Failure a Tool for Discovery

December 13, 2019December 2, 2019 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

How do you speak to your children and students about failure? Do you create an environment and engage in a dialogue with your children where failure is a tool for discovery? At VentureLab, we’ve spoken with students about how they perceive failure. In doing so, students learn that failure has a vocabulary all its own, … Read more

Start Them Young

April 30, 2018April 17, 2018 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

In these recent posts in which I’ve offered tips on raising entrepreneurial girls, I’ve suggested ways to foster their curiosity, encourage girls to remain idealistic (and to use that idealism to push themselves creatively), and to embrace and learn from failure. Here I look at an important tip for raising an entrepreneurial girl: start quite … Read more

Get Dad Involved

October 3, 2018April 13, 2018 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

In my last few blog posts, I’ve been presenting a series of tips for raising entrepreneurial girls. These tips include helping girls embrace and learn from failure, encouraging their sense of creativity and allowing them the freedom to explore ideas from different angles. Here we look at an important tip that starts at the home: … Read more

Help Them “Scamper” To Creativity

June 8, 2023April 10, 2018 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

S.C.A.M.P.E.R. is a mnemonic we use at VentureLab

In these last few posts, I’ve been providing a series of tips for raising entrepreneurial girls. So far, these have included letting them embrace failure, helping them unleash their creativity, harvesting their idealism and letting them get messy as they get creative and discover what makes things tick. This next tip for raising entrepreneurial girls … Read more

Channel Their Idealism

April 30, 2018April 6, 2018 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

I’ve been outlining tips for raising entrepreneurial girls, talking about letting them unleash their curiosity, not minding getting dirty, and embracing and learning from failure. We need, too, to let them live in idealism—the kind that propels them to continue to want to change, to do good in the world. We too often associate entrepreneurship … Read more

Let Them Appreciate Failure

April 30, 2018April 3, 2018 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Use failure as a way to discover strengths

In this series of blog posts, I’m providing tips on raising entrepreneurial girls. Such tips include letting girls develop their curiosity and also to get messy (creativity is messy, after all). Here, I look at another important tip for raising an entrepreneurial girl: letting her appreciate and learn from failure. It starts at the home. … Read more

Let Them Get Messy!

April 30, 2018March 30, 2018 by Dr. Cristal Glangchai

Whenever women in science or technology reminisce about girlhood, they remember the joy of getting dirty. Many of us who’ve grown up to be scientists and engineers recall spending more time in jeans than in dresses. And a lot of us loved playing with mud. My sisters and I had the great advantage of a … Read more