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How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

The Hechinger Report

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice. We don’t have much of a budget, so we use what we have,” he says.

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How Internships Connect First Generation College Bound Students to STEM Careers

MindShift

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. Patricia Villegas, a 2004 graduate, is helping alumni with resumes, interviews and advice. We don’t have much of a budget, so we use what we have,” he says.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

I delivered this talk today at the NMC Summer 2017 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thank you very much for inviting me to your conference. The robot, or rather a seemingly living automaton in “The Sandman,” veers towards “das unheimlich.” Why and where. There’s Olympia in E.