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build on my experiences working with students in science and
robotics, both inside and outside the classroom to help create
opportunities to spark curiosity and excitement in the minds of young
people. Each success my students have achieved, each thank you note
from a child or parent for what I have helped kids accomplish,
convinces me we can do this.
I have had the opportunity to receive an incredible education,
but few things compare to that mind-opening moment a few years ago
when I - for the first time - actually, physically looked
through a telescope with my daughter, in our front yard, and saw the
moon. Not a picture. Not a computer screen. Moon to telescope to
brain. It sounds commonplace, but if you have not done it, you should!
I wondered then (and often since) what would have happened if I had
had more moments like that when I was in fourth grade, instead of 27th
grade (or whatever absurd number I'm at). That sense of wonder
inspires me to create moments like that for others.
This campaign will help me launch the non-profit and start
putting telescopes into classrooms (and then microscopes!). The
second-stage engine will fire to drive an Indiegogo crowdsourcing
campaign to spread the project to even more classrooms. Next will come
programs to bring medical residents and researchers into schools, to
get students and teachers out of the classroom for field trips,
teacher workshops, and then create a STUDENT-RUN, world-class science
& engineering festival.
Our goal is to impact 1,000 students before the end of this
school year. 1,000 kids or more and that's just the beginning stage!
Which one will go on to make a breakthrough in cancer research?
Which one will be the first to help reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s
or the first one to land on a planet outside our solar system? Which
one will design a sustainable city arteried with greenspace and
stream-cooled boulevards? Which one will become the next Bill Nye or
Neil DeGrasse-Tyson and help inspire even more brilliant scientists
coming up after them?
Your contribution will be retroactively tax-deductible once the
paperwork is stamped. If you believe in me, if you believe in kids,
GIVE BIG. This one moment we decide if we will send our students off
to be trapped in a rat-maze of cubicles or if we will launch their
minds and imaginations to the moon. The leaders and inventors of
tomorrow are counting on us to ignite the curiosity of these future
scientists. In fact, everyone of tomorrow is counting on us to have a
brighter, better world.
Please, click and help! Be strong for just a few seconds—that
donate button is like a remote control to change the future.
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