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102. Evolving Education in Ireland with Elaine Higgins, Alice D’Arcy & Mark King
Alice D’Arcy has been involved in STEAM Education Ltd. since it was founded in 2014 and now serves as its Managing Director. She’s...
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101 | The Student Experience at PAST with Melissa Olvera, Swathi Vudatala, Caleb Buaful, Josiah Nahh
Today, we have a Learning Unboxed takeover. One of our internal colleagues, Javier Cruz, is going to be controlling the host’s mic to...
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100. Unboxing 100 Episodes of Learning Unboxed with Annalies Corbin and Rich Rosen
PAST’s podcast passion project, Learning Unboxed, has reached the 100 episode milestone! To commemorate, we thought we’d turn the mic...
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99 The Origins of PAST with Dennis Aig, Sheli Smith, and Andy Hall
Today we’re delving into PAST’s origin story with the founders who had the courage and vision to start this foundation with me twenty...
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Five Ways to Save Money on College Tuition
By Annalies Corbin We are coming up on High School graduation season once again and students around the world are grappling with the...
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98 | Technology and the Change In Pace of Innovation and the Future of Work with Jasmine de Gaia &#
We’re super excited to have Paige Love and Jasmine de Gaia from JPMorgan Chase & Co. on the show for the second segment of our three-part...
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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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97 | Transitioning From the Typical HighSchool to a STEM-focused School with Riley Andrews
Riley Andrews is currently a high-school student who we’ve had the pleasure of watching flourish academically since transitioning from a...
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96 | Veterans and Archaeology: Digging into Our Nation’s History with Jessica Mundt, Kelly Bro
This wonderful trio of educational leaders —Kelly Brown, Shannon Johnson, and Jessica Mundt — is on the ground, literally making history...
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95 | Becoming a High Flyer and Letting Your Dreams Soar with Shaesta Waiz
On October 4, 2017, Shaesta Waiz made aviation history when she became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world in a single-engine...
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94 | Presidential Libraries, Robots, & STEM: The Surprising Connection & How You Can Use T
We cover quite a bit in this week’s episode Elizabeth Dinschel and Kristine Bullock: the work of Presidential Libraries, their public...
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93 | The Power of Data to Transform our Lives with Jasmine de Gaia
Jasmine de Gaia, Executive Director of Transformation at JPMorgan Chase & Co., explains how the advancement of digital innovation in...
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092 | The Power of Entrepreneurship in Education with Ruby Xun & Melissa Liang
We’re talking to Ohio State graduates, Ruby Xun and Melissa Liang, who reached the finale of Best of Student Startups (BOSS) last year....
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Mentorship Update: #STNA2PCA
Mentorship Update: #STNA2PCA Story Time: This has been a crazy year! A year after the completion of the pilot #STNA2PCA program PAST...
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91 | Cultivating a Grass-Roots Approach to Conservation with Curt Collier & Lucy Crespo
Today, Curt Collier and Lucy Crespo talk about how they’re combating environmental and socio-cultural barriers to getting kids outdoors,...
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90 | Merging Arts, Science and Math at The Alabama School of Fine Arts with Tim Mitchell
With 85-95% scholarship rates for college — compared to the national average of 15% — it’s clear that their diverse student body is...
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89 | Democratizing Philanthropy with Imran Nuri & Shannon McCalmont
His subscription-based program, which costs $1 a week, donated just over $30,000 to 52 different non-profits last year. By breaking down...
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88 | Empowering Parents as Co Educators with Sabrina Walters and Lori Trent from Upper Arlington Cit
Learning through seeing, thinking, and wondering is the educational utopia we’re striving to achieve, and thanks to teachers like Sabrina...
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87 | Parks as Classrooms: Place-Based Learning & Real-World Connections | with Julianne Geleyns
And today, Julianne Geleynse from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is going to teach us about the Parks as Classrooms program,...
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Mentorship in Action: The Two Way Street
One of the many great benefits of working at the PAST Foundation is that I have the great privilege of living in the Venn diagram of...
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