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Women in STEM: Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is known as a technologist — a student, professor, engineer, and entrepreneur, whose latest venture used something as simple as a red laser pointer to build a $100 million startup called Openwater. As you can imagine, there’s so much more to Mary Lou that makes her perfect to be […]

Women in STEM: Bonnie Ross Last year, Bonnie Ross became just the twenty-third person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences’ Hall of Fame. And, it’s easy to see why! Bonnie is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft and head of 343 Industries, a division of Xbox Game Studios, the studio that runs the highly successful […]

It All Adds Up—Coding Helps Kids In Math! This spring has seen parents scrambling to find ways to maintain some kind of normalcy in their kids’ education. And now, just as kids have grown accustomed to an online/remote learning environment, the school year is coming to an end. So how do parents motivate their kids to keep learning from home […]

Women in STEM: Rana el Kaliouby Scientist Rana el Kaliouby has just released her first book, Girl Decoded, her compelling memoir following her journey from Egypt to America in a quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology. And what an incredible and inspiring journey it’s been! From getting her Masters in Science at the American University […]

Physics is a world of projectiles flying through the air, spinning wheels, satellites orbiting planets, spectacular collisions, and more. It’s an exciting world of action and motion!  Try playing this Tynker project, which uses the Physics Blocks. Click your mouse to fire a few times, then stop the project and keep reading. Put another way, physics is the study of […]

Women in STEM: Daphne Koller In 1986, at just 18-years-old, Daphne Koller earned her Masters of Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she was on her way. . . It’s that kind of drive and passion for the sciences that has taken her across the world to California, where she has studied, taught, and worked. Today, we’re super […]

Women in STEM: Carol Reiley When we were looking for the next candidate in our series exploring women in the sciences, the search was practically over before it started. First of all, Carol Reiley is multi-talented, extending her influence and drive into many different fields. She’s an executive and an entrepreneur, not to mention an author and a model, though […]

Setbacks Can Be Steps Forward When you pour your heart and soul into a project and it doesn’t work out, it can be discouraging to say the least. The emotional residue of not being able to finish or sustain something you really worked hard on can have long-lasting effects, even becoming a detriment to other endeavors. For kids, failure can […]

Women in STEM: Joy Buolamwini Joy Buolamwini is a digital activist, championing social issues in the medium that she believes will best shine a light on her message. Whether she’s promoting human rights through technology as the founder of Code4Rights or working as a Graduate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab, Buolamwini refers to herself as a Poet of Code. […]