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Educator Toolkit: Inside Silicon Valley

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Why This Matters Now Innovation. The word gets used a lot these days – and with good reason. Innovative minds question the status quo and reconceive the way things are done, often resulting in new technologies, products and services that improve our lives and our planet. What better way to…Read More

Corn Flake Innovation and the Battling Brothers Behind the Kellogg’s Brand

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The business world is built on stories of struggle, triumph, perseverance and personal conflict – particularly when it comes to family members vying for positions of power in the boardroom, prestige within a brand dynasty and, of course, money. You don’t need to look far to discover courtroom dramas involving…Read More

Learning to Be a ‘Rocket Scientist of Statistics’

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Aneesh Shinkre is a senior at Allen D. Nease High School in St. Augustine, Florida. This summer, Shinkre spent six weeks as a business analytics intern with Latize, a start-up data management company that uses a platform known as Ulysses, a software that helps customers “realize big data’s huge potential”…Read More

Big Data and Your Future as a Data Scientist

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Have you heard of the Big Data Challenge? Run by the STEM Fellowship, it’s a competition that helps high school students get excited about data science. This year’s theme: Think Global and Act Local with Big Data. While big data is the darling of some Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics…Read More

Is Disney’s Paid Streaming Service a Happy Move?

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Walt Disney Co. is in the business of marketing happiness. Its animated movies promise happily-ever-after fairytale endings, and Disneyland is purportedly the Happiest Place on Earth. But the media conglomerate’s recent decision to pull all of its Disney and Pixar films from Netflix and put them into its own paid…Read More

Educator Toolkit: Paying for College

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Why This Matters Now As students return to college campus to deepen their knowledge on all kinds of topics, the harsh reality is that many are also falling deeply into debt. In the last decade, college-loan balances in the U.S. have jumped more than $833 billion to reach an all-time…Read More

The Results Are In for Round Four as We Celebrate a Summer of Compelling Student Comments

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And it’s a wrap for the fourth and final round of the first-ever KWHS Comment and Win contest. While we lost some potential commenters to the rigors of a new school year, we also gained a slew of class-based commenters, bringing our grand total of student reflections during the August…Read More

Advice from Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs with Three Very Different Products

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How did you spend your summer? These three U.S.-based teenage innovators studied business fundamentals and learned about managing their money and their time – all through experiences with their own start-up companies. Their very different businesses are helping these young women develop skills for future careers and for life. Of Backpacks…Read More

The Power of Curiosity

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A curious mind is a questioning mind – and these days this is an important skill to have as you learn to think more critically, solve problems and develop an innovative spirit. Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio was so curious about curiosity that he wrote a book about it. He…Read More

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