Apr 19
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” Anne Frank These resources on journaling are free for you to use with students, with kids, or even for yourself. I created them at the beginning of our stay at home orders, but hear from my students that more and more …
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Aug 24
This is a picture of one of our research fellows, Eugene Haley, using computer vision to control the movements of a robotic kitten. The story of how we got here is amazing! One of the fellowships at the STEM Leadership Center started with Elise Propst, a long time amazing student with a love of four-legged …
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Jun 29
I received an email earlier this year from one of the first Baden Academy Research Fellows. She is attending a great high school in another state and went to show off the great work she had done starting a chess club at Baden Academy. Oh no! Her information from the chess club site was gone! …
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May 26
Our company, Grow a Generation, has had the distinct pleasure to contract with a wonderful public charter school in Western Pennsylvania for the last seven years. We provide research fellowships to teams of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders as they develop meaningful projects using science, technology, engineering and math. This week we celebrate our …
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May 09
Baden Academy students Quincy Sirko, Angelina Dioguardi and Clayton Russell will be on hand with their new book, “What the Heck is Opioid Addiction.” at the BVIU Drug Prevention Grant – Parent Night. Please come support them, and find out what you, as a parent, can do to help end this epidemic. Our students’ book can …
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Oct 30
The week before school started I was hunched over a computer screen with Paul Flick, a wonderful FedEx programmer, volunteering time to talk me through trying to change scripts in computer batch files to try to get our Dragon Tag system working. “I ran the file, NOW I get the message Error: Invalid or corrupt …
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Oct 08
Maybe you can’t 3D print a bump fire stock, but it is possible. I work with kids, as young as 3rd grade, who are learning to find designs (for example chess pieces) online, edit them in AutoDesk and TinkerCad, and upload them to print in a 3D printer. The STL file (think of it as …
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Jul 30
The Game Design class ended on a Friday with the team pleading for more time to finish the game on their own until it was posted. The challenge was accepted and I gave them a new deadline of the following Wednesday if they wanted to work on their own. And work they did! Over 30 …
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Apr 25
The Media Lab hosted Chris Shovlin today from Radio Show and Podcast Frontiers in Learning. He interviewed Aleenia and Dr. Ellen about the Take Action club and Aleenia’s heartfelt commitment to raise awareness about the vulnerable and recruit a team to support, fundraise, advocate, and together shift the world from “me” to “we.” Did you …
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Mar 09
Aleenia Reich, Research Fellow and leader of the Baden Academy Take Action club has received the 2017 Youth Champion award from the Pennsylvania Statewide Youth Development Network. She is a personal hero and I am so proud of her! I nominated her a few months ago with the following: Aleenia is an extraordinary young woman …
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