Category: STEM
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The Power of Youth
Charles Orgbon III, CEO of Greening Forward, is 20 seconds into his speech to an auditorium filled with architects, engineers, teachers and builders and it is clear that he is the brightest person in the room. And the youngest—Charles Orgbon III is in high school. So what do you do when the youngest person in…
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The Chief Eternal Optimist of Bronx County
Stephen Ritz introduces himself as the “Chief Eternal Optimist of Bronx County”. It’s a place that needs optimism. The Bronx is a tough neighborhood with high unemployment and the rumble of food insecurity. The New York City Coalition Against Hunger reported in December, 2013 that nearly 49 percent of Bronx children lived in a household…
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Solving for whY: Finding the Right Angle to Teach Math with Meaning
Solving for WHY: Finding the Right Angle to Teach Math with Meaning. Poor Y. Every year, millions of students try to solve Y’s intractable problems. They furrow their brows and scratch out long formulas smudged with erasures, red ink and tears. But despite all the best efforts of the students, Y returns each year with…
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Will Science Kill Us or Save Us?
Will Science Kill Us Or Save Us? The record so far is…Yes. Nice invention, da Vinci, but if the plane flies, how would you shoot it down? Great theory, Einstein, but how can we use it to make bombs that could destroy the world? Nice process, Haber, it can help produce food to quadruple the…