4 Brain-Boosting Reasons to Teach Technical Drawing for Kids—And Why Coding for Kids is Not Enough
Coding and robotics curriculum, classes and clubs are springing up around the world. They promise to increase kids’ cognitive skills and creativity. But coding is not enough – they need spatial visualization skills that can be developed through learning engineering, or technical drawing. “Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer…because it […]
Women in Robotics: Challenges and Progress
Robotics is one of the fastest growing fields in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and women have benefited from that growth. Over the past three decades, women in robotics have faced challenges, but at the same time, have seen encouraging progress. “Around the time I entered graduate school in the early 90s, the number […]
E is for Engineering – The Best STEM Careers
As someone with a degree in engineering, I’ve noticed a peculiar fact. In the world of STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) engineering careers appear to be the ugly ducklings of the group. There’s a lot of talk about teaching kids to code, which falls under math, computer science and technology. There’s also a huge emphasis in the media […]