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Fifty-five middle schoolers. Three hundred-fifty elementary school kids. Thirteen public school teachers. Three STEM co-teachers and five after-school instructors. Dozens of TAF volunteers. Add [...]

It’s a familiar sight at lunchtime at any school: The recruiting table. Flyers, forms, enticing posters, a couple of chipper people wearing nametags and company t-shirts, shouting: [...]

After June 9th’s TechStart Expo (see more Expo pictures here!), the TechStart team faced a daunting task: taking apart all 70 competing and non-competing robots and getting our 107 Lego [...]

They trained…they tested…they programmed…now they’re ready  to amaze you with racing robots, astonishing animations, and wonderous websites! This Saturday, June 9, 2012, [...]

Have you marked your calendar yet? TechStart’s biggest annual event, the TechStart Expo, is less than two months away! Please join us Saturday, June 9, 2012 at the Brockey Center, South [...]

Highlands Elementary held its 5th grade parent night on Thursday, February 2. This year’s evening event had a new focus: 88 students from three classes demonstrated, competed with, or otherwise [...]

Last week, 15 TechStart classes proved that they can answer this, and many, many other questions about what they have learned in the Fall 2011 session of TechStart. The last days, before winter [...]

This coming Winter Session (starting January 9), TechStart After-School students in Seattle and White Center will transition from exploring Light, to Sound. Their main project will be recording [...]

As Lynda explained a couple of weeks ago, our classroom volunteers come from all over. Jean McMillin, our TechStart teacher at Hilltop Elementary, recently told us this story about her new [...]

One of the pleasures of my job is to gather and read feedback on the TechStart program directly from current and former students. As part of our application process for the TechStart after school [...]