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Embracing the Design Thinking Mindset: A Teacher’s Guide to Design Thinking with PAST PILs
Have you ever wished your students were more engaged in the classroom? The Design Thinking mindset , combined with the PAST Foundation’s...
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Connecting Industry and Education Through Mentorship and STEM
A Look Inside The Science of Fragrance After School Program With Bath & Body Works, The PAST Foundation, and Herbert Mills STEAM...
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Dr. Mandy Smith Joins PAST as the new Director of Research
Dr. Smith’s work spans numerous areas of education, including informal education contexts, PreK-16 education, play-based and...
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Introducing PAST 4.0
By Annalies Corbin, CEO & President Twenty years ago, two anthropologists, a documentary film maker, a graphic designer, and a historian,...
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Digital Learning in Rural America
By Jeff Schneider In 2014, my wife Mary and I were teaching within a school district located in the state of South Dakota. My first...
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PAST & KIPP Columbus: A Journey of Outdoor Experiential Learning
By Jessa Goldner As part of an on-going partnership with KIPP Columbus, a community school located in Columbus, OH, the PAST Student...
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Global Sustainability Program 2019: Tobago Island
Blog Contributed By Dr. Sheli O. Smith This year the OSU course on Global Sustainability turned its focus to the Island of Tobago in the...
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The Future of Manufacturing – It’s Not Like the Past
By Susan Witt The landscape of manufacturing has changed dramatically over the past decade. Technological advances that once took decades...
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PAST Receives Generous Grant
COLUMBUS, OH – The PAST Foundation headquartered in Columbus, Ohio recently received a generous grant of $100,000 from Battelle to launch...
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PAST Launches Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute
The following article was in the Columbus Dispatch on June 27, 2018. This article was also featured in the Association for Career and...
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Spotlight: Summer Hybrid Teaching
A Hybrid Teaching Model Exploring Real-World Problems Three teachers in one classroom, teaching multiple subjects at the same time? How...
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Spotlight- (HS)2
Inquisitive Brains Bring the 2nd Annual Health Fair to (HS)2 Reynoldsburg, OH Walking through the school’s halls towards the southeast...
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Classroom Spotlight- Herbert Mills
Part 1: Planning of The Peace Project at Herbert Mills Elementary in Reynoldsburg, OH PAST works with schools to help build and support a...
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Classroom Spotlight
Community Partners, Engaging Problems, Student Solutions….Oh My! Angela Forino is a 3rd Grade educator at Herbert Mills Elementary...
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Classroom Spotlight-Using a Real Problem to Teach Math
In Ms. Baker’s Algebra 3 class at eSTEM last month, students learned about quadratic equations. However, instead of simply drilling...
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2016 Maritime Field School
For five days in July 2016, PAST partnered with the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources (MBUAR), Salem State...
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An Urban Farm Becomes A Learning Lab
Aquatic ecosystems that feed food production, compost, and animal ecosystems. In spring 2014, PAST Foundation undertook the development...
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EcoLab – Not Your Typical Summer Camp!
Most middle and high school students never hold snakes, spot screech owls or track animals in the wild. But for two weeks in June, that...
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PAST School Design & Strategy: Innovative Programs For Schools
For several years our School Design and Strategy team has partnered with Reynoldsburg City Schools to design innovative opportunities for...
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