Stories of Impact

Ready to Dig In?

Come to the NeoStem Ecosystem meeting from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, April 9 at the Tech Hive to play a role in designing the initiatives that will improve people’s lives and help secure our region’s economic future. That was a pretty bold statement, but at the February NeoStem

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Bring Coding to Your Elementary Classroom

By: Alyssa Lenhoff-Briggs My Inbox has been flooded. Teachers from Cleveland. After-school providers in Youngstown. Principals in Akron. And more than 30 others responded to a call to be a pilot site for a new project Girls Who Code is developing for elementary schools. Unfortunately, Girls Who Code only has

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Seeking Fusion

The NeoStem Ecosystem reflects, projects, plans “Once you have done the work to create the clear vision, it is the discipline and effort to maintain that vision that can make it all come true.”  Angela Duckworth Students in countless Northeast Ohio communities lack access to quality educational opportunities in STEM

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NeoStem Ecosystem Teacher Focus

CS for CLE teacher brings computer science to most at-risk students; Students who normally fail are succeeding with computer science Jeff Rhodes is what his students at North Royalton High School call “chill.” He’s the kind of teacher who allows students to play music, even rap. And it can be loud.

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The pedal hits the metal

NeoStem Ecosystem adopts projects George Bilokonsky of Cuyahoga Community College and Alexis Crosby of Tech Corps walked out of Thursday’s NeoStem Ecosystem meeting carrying the bones of a Soap Box Derby car. For the next few weeks, Bilokonsky’s students and some of Crosby’s colleagues at Tech Corps will be thinking

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GIRLS: Gains in Identifying with, Relating to, & Learning Science

[minti_dropcap style=”box”]A[/minti_dropcap] A s I examined the cardboard structure of a hurricane-proof-house prototype, complete with paper-rolled trusses and small fabric curtains, the natural integration of STEM and design came to life through child’s play. This model house was made by a young girl from DC in a Camp Invention® program

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SOLE CLE Teaches Students to Take Charge of Learning

“If your ears were square, could you hear?” “Why do we only study war if we want peace?” “Would you trust a robot to decide whether or not to drop an atomic bomb?” These are questions that Jeff McClellan, director of National Sole, presented to a group gathered in California

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