Another good piece regarding STEM and further fuel for an argument for a deeper “STEM Gateways” project http://www.techi.com/2011/11/can-stem-fix-america/ And the infographic with stats on it: Created by: Online Engineering Degree (Dan and I have been stewing over many of these numbers for several years through the Immersive Education work, many of the stats are stunning ...

A wonderful article on the New York Times covering both Scratch & Alice: Tools like Scratch and Alice are what Mr. Abrams calls “gateway programming languages” because they offer simple introductions into how to organize the instructions. Older students in middle school or high school can go further and learn the computer languages used by professionals ...

The VERY FIRST Greenbush Labs Blog Post from November 2005 … in January we carry this very first posts concept forward with out Google+ introduction to Greenbush employees ! ==================== Lab Project Objective – What and Why Greenbush Labs November 15, 2005 Rich White What is Knowledge Management? * Organizational Knowledge management (KM) is the creation, organization, sharing and ...

The below tools are tools we leverage with the MS students as “Gateways to STEM with Constructivist Learning” Scratch – http://scratch.MIT.edu Scriptastic – http://www.greenbushlabs.com/Scriptastic Arduino Kit for Kids Script Builder - http://www.greenbushlabs.com/kidskit Edusim – http://edusim3d.com …. Now to begin the broader thinking of a more fully integrated STEM initiative along with the “STEM Gateways” ideas to ...