What gains do children make in curiosity, creativity and persistence over 100 hours? What age can you start?
To answer these questions, we ran a 100 hour-long summer camp – looking at nature from an engineer’s point of view. We opened the camp to a wi...
Read MoreFood Science: Make a pH Neutral Drink
Are you ready to teach your kids about the building blocks of life? Excited to begin conversations about atoms and molecules? Let’s get started ...
Read MoreFood Science: Make Noodles to Test Viscoelasticity
How do you get your children interested in science at home? What can a parent with kids of varying ages do to get everyone excited about STEM concepts...
Read MoreYou Can Inspire Girls to Be Technology Entrepreneurs
When I volunteered to speak with high school girls about my own experience founding a tech startup, I didn’t know how much that short talk would cha...
Read MoreYouth Hack Day Challenge in L.A.
The L.A. Youth Hack Day Challenge kicked off national Computer Science Education Week as part of Hour of Code—a massive movement to introduce 10 mil...
Read MoreA case for parents as the best science educators
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. – Carl...
Read MoreTechnovation 2014 is Here! Register Today
By: Samantha Quist, Technovation Senior Director Registrations for Technovation 2014 are officially open and you can sign up today! Like last year, we...
Read MoreMaking Simulation Games for Education: Emergent Systems
What makes an educational game work? What keeps the wheels spinning in a player’s head, keeps them engaged and learning? Well, if you’ve r...
Read MoreNYC Technovation Week: Creating Mobile Applications With Young Students
Did you know that third grade students can easily create their own Android apps? This summer, we used the Technovation Challenge curriculum and the MI...
Read MoreMechanisms and Simple Machines: How to Make a Gearbox with Moving Parts
You can learn about mechanisms with these gearboxes made from just cardboard, sticks and foam! At our engineering Summer Camp in NYC, we prototyped pr...
Read MoreNYC Aerodynamics Projects from our Engineering Summer Camp
This summer, we challenged our 3rd-8thgrade students to use the engineering design process in multiple in-depth ways throughout Summer Camp. During th...
Read MoreHow Technovation Inspired Me to Start a Company
By: AnnaLise Hoopes, Technovation Director, SF Bay Area For the past three years, I’ve been working to inspire girls as technology entrepreneurs thr...
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