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Last week successful start-up founder and investor Marc Andreessen wrote an essay in the Wall Street Journal "Why Software is Eating the World". In the article he examines the largest and fastest growing companies in a wide variety of traditional …
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Teens in Tech is running a summer incubator program to help 5 teams of high school students launch a web or mobile product. The program is similar to the other tech incubators generating a lot of press recently, Y Combinator and TechStars, but is …
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There are two major complaints about the status of employment in the United States - unemployment is too high and too many jobs are being outsourced overseas. These are major concerns that hit close to home for many of us - almost everyone knows …
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Scratch is a programming environment designed to allow kids as young as 8 years old to create impressive computer games, stories, and animations. It is so fun kids don't even realize they are learning important programming concepts at the same time. …
Do schools encourage creativity? They may try, but are they are not very effective. Here is a better question - can schools come up with a way to measure creative progress? Is there such a thing as "imagining and creating at a 6th grade level" as …
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Ensuring each lesson is fun isn't an afterthought or a nice bonus - it is a vital component for success. If your student isn't having fun, they are not going to be motivated to learn. For a short period of time she may be able to stick it out …
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Parents do not want to rush their kids into something that might be too hard for their age and turn them off for years to come. So how do you know when your kids are ready? First, I want to ease your mind that no age is too young IF the material …
