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While most high schoolers were spending their summer of 2008 as camp counselors, lifeguards and job interns, Jonathan Heckman was preparing for his future in a different hands-on way -- by creating his own aviation-themed blog. Since then, Heckman’s online reflections have quite literally taken flight, rooted in a passion that he is now pursuing professionally at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fl, where he is working on a bachelor of science degree in business administration with a dual major in air transportation and management. In this personal essay, Heckman, who is 20, talks hits, posts, opinions and the life of a young blogger. …

Confessions of a Teenage Aviation Blogger

From military missions to canine soccer games, Daniel Lee, an engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has been working on making robots do it all. Lee, who recently spoke about the future of robotics as part of the Executive Master's in Technology Management program at Penn, has an ambitious goal: to learn how to make robots think and act like humans.…

Making Robots More Like Us

Those clever web marketers. Someone online is no doubt watching your interests and behavior and delivering a customized ad right to the web page you’re viewing. You may well find them snooping into a part of your life that you think should remain private. Has this invasive strategy gone too far?…

Privacy on the Web: Is It a Losing Battle?

Steve Wozniak is proof that, with a little clever thinking, techno geeks can become billionaires. He and high school friend Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and in doing so forever changed the course of technology development. What does “Woz” love even more than building cool devices? A good laugh.…

Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the Value of a Good Prank

Nat Turner is one of four founders of Invite Media, a company founded in 2007 that sells technology allowing ad agencies to log in and buy advertising space on websites. In 2010, a mere two years after Turner graduated from college, Google bought Invite Media for $70 million. In this interview, Turner talks to Knowledge@Wharton High School about teenage entrepreneurship, multi-tasking and the value of a good internship.…

Nat Turner: Young, Entrepreneurial and Google-Owned

Think Honda meets Star Trek: The Next Generation. But Honda’s ASIMO, which can identify oncoming cars through its eye camera, calculate speed and choose the most appropriate route, will soon be sharing the robot limelight. Researchers are working to deliver clever androids to our doorsteps – including ones that can pop mac-n-cheese into the microwave, unload a dishwasher or put out a forest fire.…

Honk if You Love Humanoid Robots

In the world of online video sharing, YouTube rules. Behind those homemade V-logs and silly short videos is a business just trying to make money. While teens’ love affair with the YouTube experiment experience is not likely to stop anytime soon, video sharing sites could soon be losing viewers to the next hot technology.…

Smile: You’re On YouTube

While most of us rarely think of mummies unless it’s Halloween, Sam Cox constantly has the cloth-wrapped creatures on her mind. A graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, Cox has been studying anthropology that uses the latest technology, like CT scans, to examine ancient specimens. She sat down with Knowledge@Wharton High School to discuss her path from high school to anthropology and how technology is changing her field.…

Sam Cox Spends Her Sunday Mornings with High-Tech Mummies

Tiny is SO in these days. Nanotechnology, technology that is small enough to fit inside a computer chip, is a field that is attracting lots of young technologists. Wharton MBA graduates Brian Smith and Irene Susantio -- otherwise known as Team Solixia -- are putting tiny into action in health care. Their “Hot Dot” cancer treatment is the size of a small protein fragment yet 20 times more powerful in diagnosing and treating cancer than current methods. Brian and Irene have big plans for their business, which received a grant from the National Cancer Institute in August, 2010, as they spread the word about the small wonders of nanotechnology.…

Wharton Business Plan Winners Brian Smith and Irene Susantio: The Small Wonders of Nanotechnology

While they may not be dressed in black with concealed digital cameras in their belt buckles, parents these days are learning spy strategies. They are shopping stores like The Spy Place to find just the right tracking devices for their teens’ cars. What’s next – bugs in book bags? Well, yes.…

I Spy … A Teenage Driver