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Inspiring Young Innovators: From Summer Experiences to Entrepreneurship
We're thrilled to share an incredible story from one of our PAST Foundation families! After attending our Digital Designers: CAD & 3D...
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STEM Studio: Artistic Innovation – Summer 2024
At PAST, we recognize the importance of art in a STEM ecosystem. This summer, students dove into Art in STEM through different summer...
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Part 3: Creativity in STEM: The Process
During my internship, I had the opportunity to create some drawings. One of the projects consisted of me drawing two original characters, an
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Part 2. Creativity in STEM - Gaining New Technical Skills
As a graphic design intern, I gained new technical skills, including beginner skills/knowledge in video editing and vectorizing images.
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Part 1. Creativity in STEM – How Does It Work?
By: Sarah Han (PAST Foundation Graphic Design Intern, Spring 2023) During Spring Semester 2023, I had the opportunity to work at the PAST...
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PAST Workforce Development Summer 2022
PAST Workforce Development By Nikki Stancampiano The PAST Foundation recently concluded a six-week career exploration and workforce...
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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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The PAST Foundation Partners With Bath & Body Works to Provide Innovative STEM Education to Loc
A Collaboration with Bath & Body Works Inc. in Mentorship and STEM By Alyssa Reder The PAST Foundation is excited to announce its newest...
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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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#ProjectMartian: A Non-Profit’s Mission to Innovate and Feed During COVID19
Adding nutrients to the #zerodirt garden beds at Mezzacello resetting them after harvesting shallots and onions. A Multipart PAST...
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STEM in the Community
A Summer Experience By Alyssa Reder It is August of 2020 as I sit at my desk in our offices. It is eerily quiet in the vast open area...
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Spotlight: Pathway To a New Career #STNA2PCA
In the fall of 2019 Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Care James (OSU CCC James) came to the PAST Foundation with a great idea:...
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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 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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Welcome Dr. Andy Bruening
While Dr. Andrew Bruening is not new to PAST – we have worked with Andy for 10 years – he is taking on a key role on our team. Andy is...
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Students Solving Real-World Problems
What happens when 22 middle school student spend a week at PAST designing, building and programing their own robot? You’d be amazed! Our...
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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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Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at PAST
Columbus, Ohio – May 1, 2016 — Enrich Columbus, a non-profit organization that specializes in the promotion of enrichment activities...
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2016 MATE ROV Buckeye Regional Was Amazing!
On Saturday, April 30th, teams from Ohio and Michigan put their underwater robots to the test at the first ever MATE ROV Buckeye...
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