Behavior
When Former Competitors Get to Design Tournaments of Their Own
Science Olympiad alumni created a new breed of tournament that brings a range of competitors together on college campuses around the country
Stories by Amanda Baker
Culture
The Gleeful Abandon of Youthful Curiosity
Giant leaf piles, the Mythbusters and remembering what it was like to be a curious kid
Cognition
Are We Even Playing the Same Game?
Playing against a range of opponents opens doors for strategy and problem-solving, but also lessons that loss and failure are not the same thing
Engineering
Girl Subject? No Such Thing
Techbridge Girls believes in the power of creating a space where students feel like they belong
Chemistry
Helping the Lab Feel More Familiar
Skills learned in the kitchen, at the vanity, in the craft room or in the garage can help put classroom struggles into context
Environment
Including Some Activism with Your Earth Day Arts and Crafts
Remembering the scale and impact of the day's origin may inspire kids to expand their Earth Day plans
Culture
STEM Is Far More Than the Lone Genius
What if kids pictured STEM careers like getting to spend every day talking to people who are just as excited about space, dinosaurs or butterflies as they are?
Culture
It's Time for the USA Science & Engineering Festival
With thousands of exhibits and dozens of live shows, it would be a challenge for anyone to walk away uninspired
Culture
I Will Always Love The Phantom Tollbooth
Children’s literature has so much to offer when it assumes young readers are up for a challenge
Public Health
Nature: Closer Than It Seems
Fighting the stigma that the outdoors is hard to reach, dangerous and best experienced alone
Behavior
Life Is a Group Project
Even adults can become the dictator, the slacker, the martyr, the lone wolf or the sidetracked enthusiast of their group
Behavior
"For Whatever Reasons"
Acknowledging bias is not a substitute for doing something to address it
Behavior
Winning, Losing and Learning to Be a Better Member of the Team
Tough lessons from competition can help build stronger collaborators
Culture
Relevant Skills: It's All Relative
From getting samples through customs to siphoning gas in the desert, the skills researchers need to develop for their work often extend far outside the traditional classroom
Behavior
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics...and Budgeting?
Giving young people the chance to plan the nitty-gritty details of a hypothetical research project can offer a low-stakes way to initiate conversations about money management
Electronics
FabLabs Are Showing That Student Makers Have Many Faces
Opening the lab door to alternative education, therapeutic emotional support, special needs and behaviorally nonconforming students shows potential benefits that reach far beyond report cards...
Culture
My Museum
Visiting museums as a kid leaves you with so much more than just the sum of the exhibits
Culture
Lighthearted Thinking about Thinking Out Loud
Can a card game make interdisciplinary synthesis and critical thinking fun?
Culture
Using Pop Culture to Practice Productive Disagreement
From supervillains to Sunday book club, books and movies provide low-stakes chances to build the constructive conversational skills we need for more important debates later on.
Electronics
Connecting Kindergartners and Coding without a Screen in the World of Unstructured Play
The KIBO robot tries to balance the huge potential young children have for learning with the physical realities of how they like to play.
