At Hawthorne-based SpaceX, high school students learn to reach for the stars By Sandy Mazza, Daily Breeze POSTED: 08/20/16, 5:01 PM PDT | UPDATED: 9 HRS AGO 0 COMMENTS Hundreds of standout college engineering students launch their careers each year as SpaceX interns, working long hours beside some of the country’s best rocket engineers at the trailblazing Hawthorne commercial […]

Bob Barboza is scheduled to present at the upcoming Mars Society Convention.  He will be talking about “The Occupy Mars Learning Adventures” STEAM++ programs and his special STEM Martian habitat projects with the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, California. Lockheed Martin will discuss Mars Base Camp. Lockheed Martin to Discuss Mars Base Camp & […]

What should we be thinking about before we start farming on Mars? Bob Barboza, Occupy Mars Learning Adventures     Dear Bob, A revolution is coming, one that will overcome challenges we can only imagine, powered by technology we won’t even see. The next generation of life-changing technologies goes far beyond keyboards, screens, smart phones, […]

The Next Generation Science Standards: what do they mean for afterschool? By Robert Abare The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) offer a powerful new vision for American science education for the 21st century. NGSS brings long-needed reforms to national and state K-12 science education standards, incorporating decades of new research on how students best learn science—by actively investigating […]

Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88 World-renowned mathematician, learning theorist, and educational-technology visionary was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab. Watch Video MIT Media Lab August 1, 2016 Press Inquiries SHARE COMMENT Seymour Papert, whose ideas and inventions transformed how millions of children around the world create and […]