My absolute favorite thing to do is drop in on a SmartLab HQ and ask the students, "what'ja doing?" The learners are so enthusiastic and their project ideas are usually more interesting than anything we come up with when developing…
Congratulations to the Ronan High School robotics team, one of our SmartLab partners, for being named World Champions during the 2011 FIRST Tech Challenge! The FIRST Tech Challenge is a head-to-head robotics competition held at Dean Kamen's annual International Robotics…
We were so proud to learn that one of our favorite SmartLab Facilitators, Max Brooks, was selected NASA District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium Outstanding STEM Teacher! It is hard to imagine anyone more deserving. Max has been the Facilitator…
There's a broad consensus that American education needs increased emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Surprisingly though, there's little clarity or consensus on the best way to address this need. The easiest approach is to turn to our existing…
As we launch our blog, we're looking forward to sharing our learning philosophy, new directions in STEM education, impressive case studies, innovative technologies, and more. But there was never any question that our first post would be about the kids…