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040 | Stargazer, the Portable Planetarium | with Asis Gonzalez
We are on the road in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, to visit the Santa Fe Children’s Museum, where their mission is to teach through...
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039 | Teaching Modern Manufacturing to K-12 Students | with Darius Melvin & Susan Witt
Joining me today are two wonderful guests from the Buffalo Manufacturing Works. Susan Witt is the STEM Lab Manager for Buffalo...
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Press Release November 13, 2019
The Department of Commerce’s Division of Liquor Control recently awarded the PAST Foundation with $60,000 toward creating educational...
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038 | Collaborating With Your Community on Design Challenges | with Meghan Federer
The Works is a museum, but it is also much more than that. It is a place to not just learn but explore for kids, families, and adults —...
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037 | Preparing for the Next Industrial Revolution, Additive Manufacturing | with Ian Stroop &
Mike, a teacher with Gahanna Jefferson Schools and Ian Stroop an OSU Freshman and former graduate of the Additive Manufacturing Summer...
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037 | Preparing for the Next Industrial Revolution, Additive Manufacturing | with Ian Stroop &
Joining us today are two of the Summer Institute’s participants. Mike Kunselman is an Engineering Teacher at the Gahanna Lincoln High...
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036 | Introducing Women & Minorities to Data Science | with Jenna McGuire & Airyana Washin
Joining us today is Jenna McGuire, who is the Associate Director for Translational Data Analytics Institute at The Ohio State University....
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035 | Teaching Engineering, Creativity, & Having Fun | with Armando Henriquez & Dean Alkir
Joining us today Are Armando Henriquez and Dean Alkire, who are going to talk about the role of university student clubs working with...
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034 | Engineering Creativity Through Music | with Bill Manchester
We are once again on the road, this time in Bexley, Ohio! We had the opportunity to meet Bill Manchester, a 16th year music teacher at...
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033 | Combining Empathy and Technology for a Solid Foundation | with Evelyn Van Til
Evelyn Van Til has her fingers in oh so many pies: she’s a cultural architect, she works in apprenticeships as a consultant at Apprenti,...
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032 | Leading Education Initiatives in Healthcare and Technology | with Grady Burrows
Grady Burrows is the Director of Health IT Talent at a nonprofit called BioEnterprise. They act as an accelerator for the biomedical...
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031 | Creative STEM-Based Summer Programs & the Challenges Educators Face | with Laura Bloch &#
The Innovation Lab is the PAST Foundation’s “test kitchen,” of sorts where we brainstorm the creation of summer STEM experiences for the...
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030 | Teaching Through Your Passion to Create Passionate Students | with Kelly Preheim
Joining us today is Kelly Preheim, a kindergarten teacher in Armour, South Dakota. Kelly is a wonderfully creative teacher who found a...
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029 | Talent Crisis & Career Opportunities: Inspiring the Next Generation of Agricultural Enthu
When people talk about education, they rarely talk about agricultural education — but there are infinite possibilities for careers that...
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028 | Getting Your Feet Wet with Marine Sciences: A Creative & Transformative Education Program
We’re back on the road. This time, we are in the beautiful, bustling city of Cape Town, South Africa – and we have an incredibly special...
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027 | Van Gogh Museum: Creating Engaging & Tactile Learning Experiences Through Play | with Ren
René Van Blerk is the Senior Educator and Senior Curator of Education and Interpretation at the Van Gogh Museum. In that role, he helped...
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026 | The Role of Museums in Cultivating Creativity | with Cindy Foley
Today, we are continuing our conversation about the critically important role of the arts in communities and education. To guide us...
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025 | Infusing Art Into Education to Make Learning Fun & Cooperative | with Amanda Schaeffer &#
Today, we have a wonderful teacher and a student joining us today, Amanda Schaeffer and Neel Mawalkar. Amanda is an art teacher out of...
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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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024 | GROOVE U: How an Innovative Post-Secondary Music Industry Career Program is Impacting the K-12
Today, we’re going to be talking about music and the role of arts, music, and technology in education – and we’re going to be doing that...
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