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Teaching concepts through analogies

I taught convection the other day in a 6th grade (urban classroom) . The inquiry activity was to design a house with passive ventilation. If the windo...

Thank you SolidWorks and Volunteers!

There have been a few momentous events in Iridescent’s history. June 6th was one of these. Thanks to one dedicated volunteer, Srikant, we got togeth...

Engineers as Teachers

How many of us have pursued a career because of a passionate mentor or teacher? I personally chose engineering mainly because my father shared his lov...

Next Steps

Here is the plan for the Summer and Fall based on advice from ‘Growing Pains’ (an awesome book on management by Eric Flamholtz). Spend a week plan...

Other exciting happenings

I went to the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) conference in Boston and it was by far the most exciting and inspiring conference I’ve ev...

Spring 2008

We started the second semester of “Engineers as Teachers” and had a team of 14 engineers (some undergraduate students, some volunteering graduate ...

Change the world!

We made exciting progress on the following fronts: Identified a model that would extend learning beyond the course i.e. Family Science Courses. Conduc...

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