psst, rename high school computer science classes “video game design.” students create their own game, starting with story work. build to coding, contextually, for game design as needed. congrats, you now have a nation of engineers.
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On the other hand I tried everything I could to get better technical education on offer while I was there. Truly hard to do in Hawaii, esp then. Things are much better at the school now. But my high school probably was weird. A high fraction of the teachers had PhDs..
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The answer for me at the time was to give up on trying to get them to hire a teacher and instead help start the FIRST robotics team (this meant like, students personally fundraising sponsorship from the local Starbucks until we had a budget, etc)
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A FIRST-style model for programming would be awesome. I think FIRST is honestly likely vastly under-credited as guardians and purveyors of US STEM education today. But that’s also colored by my own twisted perspective :)
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It’s also probably pretty explanatory of who I am to say that high school was one of the best things about my teen years, and a vastly better learning experience than I found at MIT.
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On the other hand I think most “nerds” I’ve met either totally loved or totally hated school and the bimodal distribution of high school emotions and grades in my peers (either As or Cs-Fs) is probably the most damning measure of the educational institution itself.
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