Student Program

Inspiring Young Innovators: From Summer Experiences to Entrepreneurship

We're thrilled to share an incredible story from one of our PAST Foundation families! After attending our Digital Designers: CAD & 3D...

STEM Studio: Artistic Innovation – Summer 2024

At PAST, we recognize the importance of art in a STEM ecosystem. This summer, students dove into Art in STEM through different summer...

Part 3: Creativity in STEM: The Process

During my internship, I had the opportunity to create some drawings. One of the projects consisted of me drawing two original characters, an

Part 2. Creativity in STEM - Gaining New Technical Skills

As a graphic design intern, I gained new technical skills, including beginner skills/knowledge in video editing and vectorizing images.

Part 1. Creativity in STEM – How Does It Work?

By: Sarah Han (PAST Foundation Graphic Design Intern, Spring 2023) During Spring Semester 2023, I had the opportunity to work at the PAST...

PAST Workforce Development Summer 2022

PAST Workforce Development By Nikki Stancampiano The PAST Foundation recently concluded a six-week career exploration and workforce...

Connecting Industry and Education Through Mentorship and STEM

A Look Inside The Science of Fragrance After School Program With Bath & Body Works, The PAST Foundation, and Herbert Mills STEAM...

The PAST Foundation Partners With Bath & Body Works to Provide Innovative STEM Education to Loc

A Collaboration with Bath & Body Works Inc. in Mentorship and STEM By Alyssa Reder The PAST Foundation is excited to announce its newest...

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...

#ProjectMartian: A Non-Profit’s Mission to Innovate and Feed During COVID19

Adding nutrients to the #zerodirt garden beds at Mezzacello resetting them after harvesting shallots and onions. A Multipart PAST...

STEM in the Community

A Summer Experience By Alyssa Reder It is August of 2020 as I sit at my desk in our offices. It is eerily quiet in the vast open area...

Spotlight: Pathway To a New Career #STNA2PCA

In the fall of 2019 Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Care James (OSU CCC James) came to the PAST Foundation with a great idea:...

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 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...

Welcome Dr. Andy Bruening

While Dr. Andrew Bruening is not new to PAST – we have worked with Andy for 10 years – he is taking on a key role on our team. Andy is...

Students Solving Real-World Problems

What happens when 22 middle school student spend a week at PAST designing, building and programing their own robot? You’d be amazed! Our...

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...

Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at PAST

Columbus, Ohio – May 1, 2016 — Enrich Columbus, a non-profit organization that specializes in the promotion of enrichment activities...

2016 MATE ROV Buckeye Regional Was Amazing!

On Saturday, April 30th, teams from Ohio and Michigan put their underwater robots to the test at the first ever MATE ROV Buckeye...