Bright Possibilities

Category: Kids

  • Rising Stars Destination Imagination team – 2017-2018

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    Destination Imagination (aka DI) offers fun and creative team based challenges for teams of up 4-7 kids. Both my kids had participated in the past few years. It encourages them to learn, create, and share with the team. The teams solve a team wide challenge for the entire year preparing props to show along with…

  • Back from 2017 Seattle Maker Faire

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    Today Manu and I attended the Seattle Maker Faire. Another year of some exciting things shown at the faire. First and foremost Manu wanted to build and race a pinewood derby car 🙂 which he did quickly as soon as we got in. There were several exhibits around that used arduino based controllers, simple metal…

  • Learning through games – Chess and such

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    A recent article about family game nights in The Atlantic emphasized the importance of games. In this summer there were days we got together as a family and played a variety of indoor games besides some outdoor games. There were two themes that emerged. Rules Driven Games encouraged discipline. Games like Chess, monopoly, cards, Set,…

  • Learning and coaching of Math with NSF

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    This year I had registered as a coach for Math to teach the students in grades 3-5 who register with North South Foundation (NSF). My 7-year old son participated in a spelling bee competition a few months back and came home interested in doing more Math. NSF also has a program to coach students during the…

  • ideaX from KCLS is awesome

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    In the past month, I had taken my 7-year old son to the ideaX event at the Bellevue main library. At this event there are an array of things to play with – blocks, lego mindstorms, 3D printer pens, line tracing robots, liteBricks, paper planes, etc. Besides kids, even adults were enjoying the event. This…

  • Looking for Better Scout Den App

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    We live in the worst of times with constant lack of time; And we live in the best of times with active kids. Sometimes people say we are living without attention. That said, from my experience as a Den leader for Cub Scouts in 2016-2017 (see the reflection piece), I felt it is important to…

  • First year of Cub Scouts – a reflection

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    My son (shortly M) started his first grade in 2016 and also started showing curiosity towards many activities. In the fall of 2016, M rambled down to a table with a lone rocket on the table. Curious as he was, he wanted to touch the rocket. The kakhi clad (now we know that they are…

  • Making Shields using modern maker technologies

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    In the medieval times, one cannot guard a state without great knights and soldiers. And these knights in-turn relied upon great armor, shields (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield), and swords. In the modern era we rely on defense technologies that reach farther. Still there is a lot learnt from the ancient shields including patience and creativity. Today my…

  • SparkSIP Summer Internship Process

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    We are signing up sponsors for the SparkSIP Summer Internships. We had 4 sponsors sign up and propose projects in the past week. And entrepreneurs are interested in how the sponsor flow works for summer internship. This infographic gives you a quick glimpse of the same. Sponsor your project by answering 10 questions at Spark SIP 2017 Sponsorship.

  • Summer Internships for High Schoolers – from SparkSIP

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    Are you an entrepreneur looking for help? Are you a researcher brimming with ideas and can use extra help? Are you the creative person who wishes you had someone help you in the short term? We invite you to reach aspiring high schoolers and offer them a summer internship. SparkSIP.org is a non-profit focused on connecting aspiring…