Connecting Industry and Education Through Mentorship and STEM
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Dr. Mandy Smith Joins PAST as the new Director of Research
Dr. Smith’s work spans numerous areas of education, including informal education contexts, PreK-16 education, play-based and...
Introducing PAST 4.0
By Annalies Corbin, CEO & President Twenty years ago, two anthropologists, a documentary film maker, a graphic designer, and a historian,...
Digital Learning in Rural America
By Jeff Schneider In 2014, my wife Mary and I were teaching within a school district located in the state of South Dakota. My first...
PAST & KIPP Columbus: A Journey of Outdoor Experiential Learning
By Jessa Goldner As part of an on-going partnership with KIPP Columbus, a community school located in Columbus, OH, the PAST Student...
Global Sustainability Program 2019: Tobago Island
Blog Contributed By Dr. Sheli O. Smith This year the OSU course on Global Sustainability turned its focus to the Island of Tobago in the...
The Future of Manufacturing – It’s Not Like the Past
By Susan Witt The landscape of manufacturing has changed dramatically over the past decade. Technological advances that once took decades...
PAST Receives Generous Grant
COLUMBUS, OH – The PAST Foundation headquartered in Columbus, Ohio recently received a generous grant of $100,000 from Battelle to launch...
PAST Launches Additive Manufacturing Summer Institute
The following article was in the Columbus Dispatch on June 27, 2018. This article was also featured in the Association for Career and...
Spotlight: Summer Hybrid Teaching
A Hybrid Teaching Model Exploring Real-World Problems Three teachers in one classroom, teaching multiple subjects at the same time? How...
Spotlight- (HS)2
Inquisitive Brains Bring the 2nd Annual Health Fair to (HS)2 Reynoldsburg, OH Walking through the school’s halls towards the southeast...
Classroom Spotlight- Herbert Mills
Part 1: Planning of The Peace Project at Herbert Mills Elementary in Reynoldsburg, OH PAST works with schools to help build and support a...
Classroom Spotlight
Community Partners, Engaging Problems, Student Solutions….Oh My! She said she has had great success with designing cool projects and...
Classroom Spotlight-Using a Real Problem to Teach Math
In Ms. Baker’s Algebra 3 class at eSTEM last month, students learned about quadratic equations. However, instead of simply drilling...
2016 Maritime Field School
For five days in July 2016, PAST partnered with the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources (MBUAR), Salem State...
An Urban Farm Becomes A Learning Lab
Aquatic ecosystems that feed food production, compost, and animal ecosystems. In spring 2014, PAST Foundation undertook the development...
EcoLab – Not Your Typical Summer Camp!
Most middle and high school students never hold snakes, spot screech owls or track animals in the wild. But for two weeks in June, that...
PAST School Design & Strategy: Innovative Programs For Schools
For several years our School Design and Strategy team has partnered with Reynoldsburg City Schools to design innovative opportunities for...
CORI & Metrobots Sponsor Robotics Scrimmage
Eight Ohio high school robotics teams had a chance to test their robots and their skills in a scrimmage hosted at PAST Innovation Lab on...
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