In 1879, Calvin M. Woodward opened the Manual Training School for boys in St. Louis. His curriculum included science, mathematics, language, literature, history, drawing and shop work. Shop was included to keep instruction more interesting, to provide learning in the use of basic tools common to a variety of jobs and to increase general education. Source

Above the entry door to his new school affiliated with Washington University, Woodward had inscribed:

"Hail the skillful cunning hand!

Hail to the cultural mind!

Contending for the world's command,

Here let them be combined." 

Source: Barlow, 2001 Years of Education 1776-1976, Feb. 1976

Efforts to introduce the practical and manual arts into the traditional humanist curriculum in the United States goes back at least as far as the late 18th century with the establishment of colleges devoted to mechanics and agriculture. Source 

"A bold plan for accelerating the pace of innovation-for restructuring the traditional, industrial model of teaching and learning and for addressing the lowest- achieving schools in our state-is needed to keep pace with the demands of the 21st century where jobs, careers and workplaces are learning- intensive, and where people often have many jobs and careers over the course of their lifetimes." (Source)

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For years, teenagers and computers have gone together like Matthew Broderick and Joshua in the 1983 film "WarGames."

John Carrera, a technology teacher at Holmes High School, has shattered that myth and, in the process, is putting bright kids to work doing good work. Oh yeah. His kids are also making buckets of money once they graduate.

This is a shock to those of us who get our news from the multiplex. For years, the teen-computer thing was pretty simple, as laid out in "WarGames."

Broderick was the brilliant-but-bored, All-American hacker. Joshua, a super-smart Defense Departmentcomputer, was his hacking target. In the very realistic premise of the film, Broderick was, with a 300 baud dial-up modem, able to penetrate layers of online security to hack Joshua. Then unable to drive a car legally, he had to evade a multi-state FBI manhunt and infiltrate a top secret military installation built into a mountain. He takes the world to the brink of nuclear war, then plays chess with Joshua and saves the world. The most unbelievable part? When he gets the unnaturally attractive girl, who just happened to tag along with him during the whole ordeal. She kisses him while they're on a beach. Yes, there's a beach in there.

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The first computers were women who wrote computer languages and mathematical calculations by hand. The first computer algorithm (or "program") was written by Ada Lovelace in 1843. During the 1890 Census, women computers processed the equivalent in punch cards stacked to the height of the Empire State building daily. In 1945, the women computers of the war effort were recruited to become the programmers of the first supercomputer. 1/5 the size of a football field, the lights of West Philadelphia would dim when the machine was turned on. A modern wonder, the ENIAC was a 1,000 fold faster than the  mechanical calculators it replaced. Learn more with the 2010 documentary: Top Secret Rosie's.

 

Video: Cyber Girls Workshop for Girls, Inc. 

 

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