If you do a Google search for “Role Models”, you get 5 million results. “Mentor” yields 2.6 million results, “STEM mentors” 1.6 million and “Apprenticeship” 2.6 million.These words (and concepts) are powerful and relevant as we see a big burst of public interest. We put together a graphic in an attempt to make sense of […]
I watched Slumdog Millionaire many years ago and cried. I grew up in India and routinely saw little, maimed beggar children on crossroads and never thought how they got there. That movie completely shattered my protective glass.Now I have two little girls and cannot bear to watch violence against children. So when I heard about […]
A researcher in the 1950s found that the total impact of a message is about 7% verbal, 38% vocal (tone of voice, inflection etc ) and 55% nonverbal. Image from the Illusion of LifeHere are some tips I have picked up along the way to read the person you are talking to. I have found […]
Over the past few years, Iridescent has been growing and I dont have as much contact with participants as I did before. I miss that fuel.But thankfully, every few weeks, some stories of people come through – that just make me stop and stare in amazement.Like this one.Senthil Kumar is an engineer at Qualcomm in […]
To answer these questions, we ran a 100 hour-long summer camp – looking at nature from an engineer’s point of view. We opened the camp to a wide range of ages – all the way from 3-10. Each child was paired with an adult or a high school explainer. The main barriers for the littlest […]
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. – Carl Sagan I am an aerospace engineer and I have founded a science education nonprofit, Iridescent. Our goal is to inspire children to observe the world around them, to ask questions, to try […]
As a parent you have the unique privilege of seeing your child learn over many years. If your child is very young, it is very hard to pinpoint what exactly she is learning. For instance, many times a child may not have the vocabulary to express any idea and even if she does, she may […]
Its been seven years since I started Iridescent and I have learned a lot about hiring! Here are the various stages I have gone through starting from when I had no clue. Stage 0. No Money. We ran programs on the power of volunteers and visionaries who saw the great things we could do […]