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How a Science Research Program Taught Students to Pursue Futures Fueled by Passion

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Lenny, an Intel semi-finalist who launched rockets in a park and built a robot in his bedroom, is a technical staff member at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory where he provides analysis to the U.S. government to develop and maintain the national Ballistic Missile Defense System.

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Getting the Excel and Photoshop Kids to Play Together: A Conversation with Georg Petschnigg of FiftyThree

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Prior to FiftyThree, Petschnigg started a consumer electronic business at Microsoft in partnership with Samsung, started the Pioneer Studios (a design venture fund), worked on historical sites in Germany (Burg Pyrmont), and was part of the launch of HDTV at AT&T Bell Laboratories. How does it work?

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43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year

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–Andrew Goldman, EVP, HMH Labs As an engineering teacher who runs a hands-on laboratory class, I like to start the year off by exposing my students to all the industry equipment and industry-certified credentials that they will have access to throughout the year.

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As New England Liberal Arts Colleges Struggle Financially, One Pins Hopes on Health Care Majors

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Hoping to build off that momentum, Colby-Sawyer plans to launch five degree programs in 2020: addiction studies, social work, medical laboratory sciences, mental health counseling and health care management (the last of which was one of the majors it cut a few years ago).

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