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Our first summer STEAM Camp blasts off today!

Hear ye, hear ye, we’re delighted to announce that our first Summer STEAM Camp at the Shaler Area Elementary School blasts off today.  About 50 lucky students will be racking their brains to fly the IKS Titan in the gripping

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Look for Dream Flight Adventures at ISTE

Attention all educational revolutionaries, trailblazers, and pioneers!  Dream Flight Adventures will be at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference this coming week:  Monday June 24 through Thursday June 27.  We’ll be hitting the workshops, covering the exhibit floor, and

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Dream Flight T-Shirts

Hello everyone, we’re absolutely thrilled by the fantastic experience the students at the Shaler Area Elementary School have had with the recently-launched IKS Titan.  These students witnessed the entire construction process each day as they went to lunch, watching how the

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Stoking the Fire of Curiosity

Dream Flight Adventures is all about sparking curiosity that leads to deeper learning and engagement.  Check out this terrific TED talk by a high school chemistry teacher in San Francisco that understands the power of curiosity.

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The Power of Programming

This week I read an interesting article entitled Why Programming Teaches So Much More Than Technical Skills.  It points out that many schools often treat programming classes as an elective with less long-term applicability than core subjects like Algebra or Biology.

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Salute to Victor Williamson

Thirty years ago something happened that would ultimately change thousands upon thousands of lives:  Victor Williamson took a job at Central Elementary School in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Out of Victor’s vision and imagination, the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center emerged

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Blue-Collar Renaissance Begins with STEM

Dream Flight Adventures was featured—alongside a slew of other fantastic programs—in a great article about STEAM learning and its impact on the future workforce—today’s kids. All of these programs are focusing on STEM in new ways and in new forums.

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A Spectacle for Superintendents

Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting Dream Flight Adventures to the movers and shakers in the Pittsburgh region’s formal education arena at the Superintendent’s Forum at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. It was quite the party, and if

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After Just One Month

It’s been just over one month since the exciting debut of the IKS Titan at the Shaler Area Elementary School, so let’s check out how the program has gone so far. First, the launch event itself was very well received.  The

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Vote for us in the DATA Awards

This just in:  Dream Flight Adventures has been selected as a finalist in the Design, Art, and Technology Awards, an annual event hosted by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, that promotes creative new innovations.  Head on over to the finalist listings

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