"Making" is not an option!
I think every teacher sees the impact of the past few years on our students, but I was surprised to see that impact recently quantified...
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Allan Miller
Oct 2, 20235 min read
Opening the black box of computer memory
These past two weeks, eighteen months of planning finally came together when I rolled out a new unit trying to open up the concept of how...
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Allan Miller
Aug 27, 20231 min read
WCS selected for 365K Makerschools grant
The Burlington community makerspace, Generator - https://generatorvt.com, has received a federal grant for $365,000 for a three year...
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Allan Miller
Aug 9, 20232 min read
Bring on the STEAM Team
Thanks to some generous funding the Vermont Agency of Education, this past spring I was able to partner with our school's phenomenal new...
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Allan Miller
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Learning 2d/3d design with STEM4Learning
Our Creation Studio was buzzing this summer as STEM4Learning offered a day camp exploring 2D and 3D Design. We kicked off exploring a...
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Allan Miller
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Wonderful week in Samarqand, UZB
We just wrapped up three wonderful days working with some truly motivated teachers and instructors from the Samarqand Center for Teacher...
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Allan Miller
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Fulbright funded Urgench UZB Computer Club kicks off
With generous funding from the Fulbright Global Teacher Grants program, Urgench State University in Uzbekistan has started a robotics...
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Allan Miller
Apr 9, 20231 min read
Edison Robots Come to Tashkent!
On Monday April 17 STEM4Learning lead a workshop for 20 Tashkent teachers introducing them to the Edison Robot platform. Here is a short...
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Allan Miller
Dec 16, 20222 min read
NEGA continues . . . via Zoom
After our great face to face sessions last month in Urgench and Samarqand, Uzbekistan our big wondering was whether we could maintain the...
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Allan Miller
Nov 28, 20222 min read
Unleashed in Urgench - Project NEGA!
Our STEM4Learning team just wrapped up a fantastic week working with a wonderful team of teachers, professors and technology specialists...
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Allan Miller
Nov 20, 20222 min read
Tempest of English Teachers in Samarqand
3 years of planning, negotiating and organizing later - the first ever NEGA? workshop took place last week in Samarqand at the Center for...
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Feb 25, 20206 min read
Uzbek education for all - or just the 1%?
“If you were given the space and resources to create the perfect school to develop our country’s leaders for the 21st century – what...
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Feb 24, 20206 min read
Eating my way across Uzbekistan
Any country that has a rich cultural history like Uzbekistan is also going to have a delicious culinary tradition as well. With huge...
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Feb 10, 20206 min read
Communication isn't always about the language
I open every presentation here by sharing this snippet from a Telegram post (think Twitter for Uzbekistan) - which translates from...
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Feb 9, 20201 min read
So what the @^&($^ is STEM anyways?
That was the response to one of my entrance cards my first week in Uzbekistan - that I gave to the 30 Uzbek teachers I'd been asked to...
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Feb 7, 20203 min read
Got that teacher's high today!
If any of you are teachers I bet you know what I'm talking about - that rare day where the plan really comes together in a way that the...
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Feb 6, 20204 min read
600 years wrapped in a 5 km run
Perhaps one of my healthiest habits, something I've been doing steadily for almost 45 years is running - I dread the day that my knees...
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Jan 24, 20202 min read
STEAM'in off to Uzbekistan
It's been a few years since I've strolled off into the unknown, but as I sit here in JFK Starbucks across from my Turkish Airlines gate I...
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