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Fab Lab Summit in Reynoldsburg, OH
There is no cost to attending this Straight A-funded Summit. We ask that you RSVP no later than May 15, 2015 by clicking here. If you...
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National Robotics Week
Their efforts go beyond designing, building and competing your team’s robots. Team members, parents and teachers are working with FIRST...
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PAST Presents at OESCA Conference
On April 14, 2015 PAST joined with Fairfield County ESC partners to share their Growing SOIL and FAST programs, both funded with Ohio...
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Metrobots Are Going to World Championship
FRC Team 3324 The Metrobots has qualified for the FIRST Championship in St. Louis on April 22 – 25. This is their first year attending...
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Building Cities, Engaging Students
PAST has been working with teachers and administrators at Baldwin STEM Middle School (Reynoldsburg, OH), bringing transdisciplinary...
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Deep Horizons Research Institutes Discovery Labe
At the recent OETC in Columbus, Ohio, we met folks from the Deep Horizons Research Institutes Discovery Lab. They are interested in...
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Forensics in the Classroom
OSU-Department of Anthropology Newsletter. Great photo of the students posing!
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ROVs in Action!
On May 7, 2015, high school and college teams will compete in our Advanced ROV Design Challenge, again held at COSI. This promises to be...
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Take the Deflate-gate Challenge
Jeff Schneider is bringing football to the classroom with a challenge to resolve a real-life controversy: Deflate-gate. Here’s the...
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Our Interns
PAST has always reached out to high school and college students to offer great internship opportunities. It’s great to work with such...
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PAST Presents at ACUA Conference
Sheli Smith (1st row, 3rd from left) and Annalies Corbin (1st row, far right) at the ACUA Conference. The 48th Annual Society of...
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Hour of Code Is A Success!
All around the world students, teachers, parents and mentors participated in the Hour of Code. Rich Rosen, Past Board VIce-Chair, and...
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Partnership Development & Innovative School Design, Part 2
by Dan Hoffman, PhD School Design Consultant (Note: This is the second posting in a two part series. Read Part 1 here.) A third common...
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Partnership Development & Innovative School Design, Part 1
by Dan Hoffman, PhD School Design Consultant In the past month, I have had the privilege of two conversations regarding partnership...
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PAST & COSI Announce Partnership
For Immediate ReleaseAnnounce Partnership For Immediate Release Central Ohio has a history of creating dynamic educational and...
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Why Should We Change?
Sometimes parents are left out of the change loop – why we work to transform education, why teaching methods and curriculum are changing....
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A Brand New Type of Performance
A New Way to Look at Art, Poetry, Dance, and Music Our friends at Shadowbox Live and the Columbus Museum of Art partnered to explore the...
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