Education Week: Child-Led Project-Based Home Learning
When J.K. Rowling released each of her Harry Potter books, young fans flocked to bookstores, stayed up late finishing the books, and then eagerly shared feelings and predictions about future books,...
View ArticleGeeking Out With Theme Park Designers at SATE’11
When I told my nine year-old that I met the person who created the Clutch Powers Lego hero, he screamed with excitement. The true heroes of the theme park world (the people who dream up, design, and...
View ArticleLegoland Florida: The Young Lego Geek’s Paradise
Like Steve Jobs was to Apple fans, Legoland Florida is to all of the young Lego fanatics. On Saturday, October 15, 2011, thousands of loyal fans from around the world converged on the grounds of the...
View ArticleGhosts, Books, and Coincidences
Founded in 1933 during the Great Depression, Haslam’s Bookstore is a “third place” for many people in the small St. Petersburg, FL community. Its owners share great stories with regular customers,...
View ArticleTen Cool Companies That Rocked the IAAPA Conference
IAAPA Attractions Expo, owned and produced by International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, is the world’s largest conference and trade show for the $24 billion global attractions...
View ArticleEntire Cyberchase Animated Series Now Available Online
As a GeekMom, I’m extremely choosy about what and how much children’s television and online programming my child consumes. After all, time is my family’s most precious commodity. Therefore, when my...
View ArticleCadillac CUE’s up for Geek Moms
On Sunday, January 9t–the eve of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, Cadillac unveiled the new Cadillac ATS, a luxury car to compete head-to-head with BMW. The car is...
View ArticleChevrolet’s New Concept Coupes Combine Style, Performance, and Tech
One of the most exciting unveilings at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan was Chevrolet’s introduction of two stunningly appealing but dramatically different concept...
View ArticleGM Brings Sci-Fi Closer to Reality With WOO
For kids, riding in the back seat of a car is boring. We have all heard “when are we going to be there?” or “Mom, tell her to stop singing”. Enter WOO, the Windows of Opportunity project. With WOO,...
View ArticleThe Maker Culture is Reinventing Detroit
To be sure, Detroit faces uphill challenges as it fights poverty, unemployment, and a shrinking population after the massive downsizing of the auto industry. In the media, we all see Detroit’s vast...
View ArticleTEDActive Makers Hack Art, Urbanization, and Kinetic Energy
TED is an annual, global idea conference. TEDActive is the arm of the TED conference that engages thinkers and doers in projects centered on the TED Prize. What happens when an artist, an engineer, an...
View ArticleTED-ED – TED Releases Cool Education Talks Aimed at Teens
TED Talks are great learning tools. Famous for high quality presenters talking about the world’s biggest ideas, TED Talks inspire everyone—even children. Now there is a whole series of TED videos...
View ArticleGoogle’s Erez Lieberman Aiden – How the Human Genome Folds
What do Ramen noodles, knots, and genome globules have in common? If you’re researcher Erez Lieberman Aiden, these are models for his groundbreaking research on 3-D mapping the human genome. At the end...
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Inventor Mitch Altman, Electronics Jedi
Long, flowing hair and an air of supreme confidence emanates from Mitch Altman, inventor of TV-B-Gone, as he enters the 'Dark Side' stage at the 2012 Orlando Mini Maker Faire on Saturday, May 27 2012....
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People-Power Lights 2012 Olympic Walkway
When I first met Laurence Kemball-Cook he was showing me how he’d hacked a cheap AM-FM radio in his hotel room the night before. He rewired it to run off of kinetic energy instead of the batteries it...
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Learn Robotics With GeekMom Kathy’s Simple Projects Book
What are robots? How are they being used in the world today? How can kids make their own working robots? Where can you find parts? All this and more is covered in the book Robotics: Discover the...
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Streetlights Can Do That? An Entrepreneur Creates Smarter Cities
What do music, the iPhone and Hurricane Katrina have to do with streetlights? If you are Ron Harwood, everything. Ron is the inventor of Intellistreets, an LED street light system that goes way beyond...
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ByteLight Solves Indoor GPS Mapping Problem With LED Lighting
“We’ve taken something that’s been around since Edison and turned it into a way of transmitting information.” -Dan Ryan, CTO of ByteLight Dan Ryan and Aaron Ganick, both Electrical Engineers, met at...
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From Minecraft to TED, Kona Democratizes Project Planning
What does Minecraft have to do with hockey and TED? Nothing unless you're a Kona user. Then everything in your life has a plan.
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Hakitzu-Promising AI Platform Blurs Lines Between Gaming and Learning
It all started when Frank was a boy, frustrated by the lack of organization in the Meehan household. Being the nerdy kid that he was, he spent an entire summer creating a computer database to catalog...
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