Whiteman AFB, MO (April 12, 2016) – The Air Force announced today that Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST, has been given a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to fly in a B-2 Spirit bomber and experience the Air Force’s cutting edge innovation and technology first hand on April 26th.
WHO/WHAT: Kamen’s B-2 flight at Whiteman AFB marks the Opening of the 2016 FIRST Robotics World Championship in St. Louis.
This past week, I gave a keynote speech at STEMCON, a conference for STEM educators in Cleveland, Ohio. My talk was titled “The Innovators of Tomorrow: Developing our next generation of innovators equipped to solve the world’s most pressing problems”.
FIRST Updates Now will be hosting a one hour FIRST Championship preview show! Be sure to check it out!
Important information about shipping FIRST Robotics Competition robots home from the FIRST Championship.
Congratulations to FRC Team 2056, OP Robotics, on an incredible record numbers of consecutive Regional wins! We are also looking for more volunteers for FIRST Championship. See below for more information.
Urvi Shah is an experienced educator and lifelong learner. She is the CEO and founder of Strategic EdTech LLC and currently the Director of Educational Technology and Innovation at a private K-12 school in the Washington, DC area. Her company, Strategic EdTech, provides services, guidance, and leadership for educational institutions and districts to develop educational technology and innovation within best practices of teaching and learning.
She has worked previously as a Technology Teaching and Learning Coordinator and middle school teacher. She is passionate about edtech, robotics, andragogy, and learning through constructionism. Her work alongside teachers, staff, administrators, and students of all ages in education and educational technology has guided her career of building cultures of innovation among schools in multiple countries.
How do we encourage innovation and innovative thinking in the classroom? Warren Berger’s book, A More Beautiful Question, explains that innovation is defining a problem and borrowing ideas/inspiration from what’s already been done in order to create new combinations of thoughts and ideas to address that problem.
Our world is filled with technology and our students are growing up with access to information on a 24 hour a day, seven day a week basis. They can find an app to identify a leaf, listen to a podcast, or even watch a live video of history happening. They can text, take selfies, and find sports scores in split seconds.