The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Modern robotics can interact with the human body in newer, innovative ways, using flexible materials and compliant actuators. Dr. Holly Golecki, Ph.D., wants to teach young people all about it, recently sharing her team's K-12 curriculum in soft robotics in The Science Teachermagazine. A professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Golecki teaches bioengineering and engineering design to undergraduates, while also research applications of materials engineering to bioengineering and engineering education. She discusses her pathway to her current focus on engineering education, and her ideas about increasing the diversity of students who can access engineering at younger ages by way of soft robotics. Related to this episode: * Dr. Holly Golecki's website: https://www.hollygolecki.com/ * Revolutionizing Robotics: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19434871.2023.12290283 * Soft Robotics Toolkit: https://softroboticstoolkit.com/ * UIUC BioE: https://bioengineering.illinois.edu/ * Drexel Materials Science and Engineering: https://drexel.edu/engineering/academics/departments/materials-science-engineering/ * Sandia National Labs: https://www.sandia.gov/ * VEX Robotics competitions: https://www.vexrobotics.com/competition * McKibben artificial muscles: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/803170 * Control Pneumatic Cylinder with Arduino (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXNNjtK5hp8 * Tim the Nitinol Lepidopterist (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVGpRjG5-0 * Mark Rober on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg * hgolecki on Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/hgolecki * Soft Robotics Toolkit Competition: https://softroboticstoolkit.com/competition/requirements Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net [http://www.k12engineering.net/]. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games [https://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Guide-Improv-Art-Games/dp/1520634900/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=], The Calculator Gator [http://www.piuswong.com/calculatorgator/], or Chordinates! [https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/] Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com [http://www.pioslabs.com/]. Music by seth_makes_sounds [https://freesound.org/people/Seth_Makes_Sounds/] under a Creative Commons 0 License [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/].

The Solve for Tomorrow design competition from Samsung is starting up again, and three guests join the podcast to explain how it works, and why schools and businesses should invest in K-12 STEM education. George Dowdy led his students at Porter High School to win the most recent competition, while Autumn Dowdy led her students at the same school to win before that. George and Autumn, an engineering education power couple, talk about what it's like teaching engineering today and how the Solve for Tomorrow competition complements their existing curriculum. Ann Woo is the Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Samsung in the US, and she explains why Samsung funds or support the K-12 education pipeline with professional development and other programs like this. Related to this episode: • Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition: https://www.samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow/ • Porter High team wins national STEM competition for second year: https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/Porter-High-team-wins-national-STEM-competition-17192932.php • Project Lead The Way: https://www.pltw.org/ • MindSpark Learning: https://www.mindspark.org/ • Porter High School Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/porterhs_spartans/?hl=en Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net [http://www.k12engineering.net/]. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games [https://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Guide-Improv-Art-Games/dp/1520634900/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=], The Calculator Gator [http://www.piuswong.com/calculatorgator/], or Chordinates! [https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/] Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com [http://www.pioslabs.com/].

The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin tries to attract kids to science using loud and entertaining demonstrations that might not be as accessible to the average school. Led by graduate students doing the latest in physics research, The Physics Circus is getting back into live shows again. Joseph Ziegel is one of the coordinators of the group, along with Jordan Zesch, and Joseph describes their mission of young scientists spreading more love of science. Related to this episode: • The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin: https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~circus/ • Should a Person Touch 200,000 Volts? A Van de Graaff generator experiment! From the Jefferson lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZuSZYVBng • How To Make Pickles Glow, from TKOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFefJyQhw0c • The Physics Circus YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSPOGbgbw7D4ogjV5_UpFxA Opening music by LogicMoon: https://freesound.org/people/LogicMoon/sounds/617295/ Closing music by JetSmith88: https://freesound.org/people/JetSmith88/sounds/206065/ Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

What is synthetic biology? Researcher and professor Dr. Xiaojing Gao introduces this cutting edge field. He explains how his lab at Stanford University engineers biomolecular circuits, which are meant to be programmable, reproducible, and friendlier to mammalian cells than non-biological molecules. Xiaojing hopes to create the building blocks of this technology, to one day better treat all sorts of medical conditions ranging from cancer to epilepsy. He also describes his path to his interdisciplinary career. Related to this episode: • Dr. Xiaojing Gao: https://cheme.stanford.edu/person/xiaojing-gao • Gao Lab at Stanford: https://gaolab.blog/ • CAR T Therapy for cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/car-t-cell-therapy • Targeted Therapy for cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/targeted-therapies • biological logic gates: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-cells-protein-logic-gates.html • Brain & Behavior Foundation: https://www.bbrfoundation.org/ • Cell Reprogramming With CRISPR/Cas9 Based Transcriptional Regulation Systems: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00882/full • Physics Olympiad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Physics_Olympiad • Michael Elowitz: https://www.bbe.caltech.edu/people/michael-b-elowitz • Liqun Luo: https://profiles.stanford.edu/liqun-luo • Can we write biological "software updates" to cure disease?: https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/can-we-write-biological-software-updates-to-cure-disease/ • Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) https://science.osti.gov/wdts Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Chicago educator and entrepreneur Scott Steward breaks down his teaching philosophy, rooted in getting to know his students. Steward founded Genius Lab in Chicago, where he teaches young people technology, business, and how to become an adult. He honed his curriculum from teaching in Chicago Public Schools classrooms for fifteen years in largely black and brown communities. First Steward traces his youth on the South Side of Chicago, when he did not prioritize academics at all, and then he explains the turning points that took him through the corporate world and eventually to teaching youth who grew up much like himself. Related to this episode: • Scott Steward: https://scottsteward.com/ • Genius Lab: https://www.geniuslabchicago.com/ • 666 new Texas laws go into effect Sept. 1: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/31/new-texas-laws-september-2021/ • Derrion Albert: The Death that Riled the Nation: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/derrion-albert-the-death-that-riled-the-nation/ • Million Man March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March • Guillain-Barré syndrome: https://www.cdc.gov/campylobacter/guillain-barre.html • NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship): https://www.nfte.com/ • Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep: https://brookscollegeprep.org/ • SEL (social-emotional learning): https://www.nu.edu/resources/social-emotional-learning-sel-why-it-matters-for-educators/ • Chase the Lion, by Mark Batterson: https://www.markbatterson.com/books/chase-the-lion/ • 31 Ways to Improve Your Life, by Scott Steward: https://scottsteward.com/merch/stewisms • Scott Steward on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealprofessorstew • The 2019 Chicago teachers strike: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/15/20915723/chicago-teacher-strike-2019-cps-ctu Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Math is fundamental to engineering education and other disciplines. That's part of why Richard Rusczyk wants to teach kids harder math than they often see in school. As the CEO of Art of Problem Solving, he wants to challenge more young people mathematically, hopefully giving them an earlier chance to achieve math mastery. He talks about national math competition culture compared to sports culture, starting his online education company, and strategies to improve access to deeper math education in K-12. Related to this episode: • Art of Problem Solving (AoPS): http://artofproblemsolving.com/ • Mathcounts: https://www.mathcounts.org/ • National Society for Professional Engineers: https://www.nspe.org/ • US National Mathematical Talent Search: https://www.usamts.org/ • Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAMS): https://www.beammath.org/ • AoPS Academy: https://aopsacademy.org/ • Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/ • Chordinates!: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/ • @pioslabs on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pioslabs Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Mechanical engineer Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short studies robot brains, having previously worked in industry and academia for commercial toy companies, NASA, Texas A&M, and more. She also advocates for diversity and inclusion in education and STEM for trans people, including her time founding the Sexual Identity Forum at Baylor University. Dr. Short talks about one of her latest projects finding trans women engineers who have made pivotal contributions to the world. Related to this episode: • Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short on Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes • Sphero Robotics: https://sphero.com/ • SPRK+ robot: https://sphero.com/products/sphero-sprk-plus • BB8: https://sphero.com/pages/legacy-products • Baylor Student Activists Appeal to NCAA: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/07/gay-rights-activists-ask-ncaa-intervene-baylors-lgbtq-policies • Gamma Alpha Upsilon at Baylor University: https://twitter.com/baylor_gay • Susan Calvin from Isaac Asimov's Robot stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin • Totally Trans podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/totally-trans-searching-for-the-trans-canon/id1543571717 • Lynn Conway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway • VLSI, very large-scale integration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Scale_Integration • Sophie Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson • ARM computer processor architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture • Danielle Bunton Berry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry • M.U.L.E. video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E. • Dr. Bryony Dupont: https://mime.oregonstate.edu/people/dupont • Angelica Ross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Ross • TransTech Social Enterprises: https://www.transtechsocial.org/ • Ashawna Hailey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashawna_Hailey Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

The pandemic has spurred teachers like Amanda Hough to teach CAD remotely, but how do you do that if students don't have the hardware to run resource-heavy CAD software? Amanda uses cloud-based CAD platform OnShape, and her students run it in a web browser, no installs needed. She talks about her experience switching over to OnShape this year, its place in education even when the pandemic is over, and how she got into STEM education in the first place as a career-changed from marine biology. Related to this episode: • Amanda Hough's email: ahough@mpspk12.org • Amanda Hough Twitter @amandahough6: https://twitter.com/amandahough6 • Mashpee Educator Named State STEM Teacher of the Year: https://www.capenews.net/mashpee/news/mashpee-educator-named-state-stem-teacher-of-the-year/article_919d8ed2-7fcd-5bb8-b717-ae7bcab92dc1.html • VEX Robotics competitions: https://www.robotevents.com/robot-competitions/vex-robotics-competition • Marine Biological Laboratory: https://www.mbl.edu/ • MTELs: https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/ • Sketchup: https://www.sketchup.com/ • PTC Creo Parametric: https://www.ptc.com/en/products/creo/parametric • OnShape: https://www.onshape.com/en/ • Autodesk Fusion360: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview • BOSEbuild Speaker Cube: https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/products/bose_speakers_support/bose_portable_speakers_support/bosebuild_speaker_cube.html • Autodesk TinkerCAD: https://www.tinkercad.com/ • Dassault Systemes Solidworks: https://www.solidworks.com/ • ClearTouch: https://www.getcleartouch.com/for-education/ • Screencastify: https://www.screencastify.com/ Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote "Can You Hear Me Now?" – a book about how parents and teachers might change our schools from the bottom-up. She draws on her own experiences in Baltimore County Public Schools as an elementary math teacher from 2011 to 2019, a parent of children in BCPS, and an advocate for sound enhancement technology in classrooms across the country. She also talks about how COVID has affected her opinions on testing, 1-to-1 device policies for elementary schools, and more. Related to this episode: • Suzanne DeMallie: https://suzannedemallie.com/ • Can You Hear Me Now?: https://suzannedemallie.com/book • Improving Classroom Acoustics (ICA): A Three-Year FM Sound Field Classroom Amplification Study: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED463640 • Common Core: http://www.corestandards.org/ • PARCC: https://osse.dc.gov/parcc • UT-Austin won't require SAT or ACT scores for 2022 applications due to COVID-19: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/25/ut-austin-texas-sat-act-application/ • STAAR: https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/testing/staar/staar-released-test-questions Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

How do you learn web development without a computer, or without any electronic device? Sam Taylor wrote a book to help learners do just that. As a former middle school teacher and current tech worker, Sam wrote the newly released educational book titled The Coding Workbook, which intends to teach the basics of HTML and CSS, but with no computer required. Hear the discussion about this new book, accessibility to STEM education, what teaching middle school science is like, and more. Related to this episode: • The Coding Workbook: https://nostarch.com/CodingWorkbook • NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards): https://www.nextgenscience.org/ • Harvard CS50, Intro to Computer Science: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science • JavaScript for Kids: https://nostarch.com/javascriptforkids • Girls Who Code: https://girlswhocode.com/ • Sam Taylor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samtaylor_css Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Let's make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let's listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowledge. You can make two-dimensional x-y math equations audible – or sonify them – by translating the x-values to time and the y-values to the keys of a piano. If you can't play them on the piano yourself, we can use the free web app Chordinates! by Pios Labs to do it instead. Listen to the sound of coordinates, linear equations, polynomials, trigonometric functions, and random distributions of notes on the piano, and analyze their patterns. Then take the audio review quiz at the end, complete with extended creative and technical challenges. Got your own reactions to this episode? Would love to hear your thoughts. Related to this episode: • Chordinates! beta, a free web by Pios Labs: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/ • Coordinate plane, from Desmos.com: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/q8mwzeylbk • HCI Beyond the GUI, book by Philip Kortum: https://www.amazon.com/HCI-Beyond-GUI-Nontraditional-Technologies/dp/0123740177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241987101&sr=8-1 • Google nGram viewer, for analyzing the prevalence of the words "sonify" and "sonification": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sonify%2Csonification&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csonify%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csonification%3B%2Cc0 Music credits: All clips used are under Creative Commons 0 Licenses, including from the following artists. • Tyler Schanck, The Wandermiles: www.thewandermiles.com • Doctor Dreamchip: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhlcItuC6pmhhemUjhPt1w • Moz5a: www.mankus.co.uk • Sondre Drakensson: https://soundcloud.com/drakensson93 • Eathan Markson: https://soundcloud.com/eathan-markson • Don Veca: https://soundcloud.com/dveca/sets/generative-jazz • Komit: https://freesound.org/people/Komit./ • Epon Audio: https://www.patreon.com/EponAudio?fan_landing=true • Nate Ziller: http://www.nateziller.com/ • Julian Evans: http://www.julianevans.info/ Equations referenced: • y = x, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&x=x-scale-custom&xmin=0&xmax=51 • y = -2x, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&x=x-scale-custom¶ms=-2,0&xmin=0&xmax=51 • Linear equation, minor scale: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&m=diatonic-cminor&x=x-scale-custom¶ms=1,-1&xmin=0&xmax=51 • Linear equation, chromatic scale: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&m=chromatic&x=x-scale-chromatic-origin&y=y-scale-chromatic-origin • y = x^2, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=quadratic-standard&x=x-scale-custom¶ms=1,0,0&xmin=0&xmax=51 • y = 16sin(x), free rhythm, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=trigonometric-sin&r=rhythm-even-y¶ms=16,1,0,0 • y = 5vtan((1/2)x), free rhythm, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=trigonometric-tan&r=rhythm-even-y¶ms=5,0.5,0,0 • Square wave, amplitude = 2, offset = 2, major 3rd harmony, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=sgn-cos&h=harmony-majorthird¶ms=2,1,2 • y = uniform random distribution, from -23 to 28, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=statistical-rand-uniform¶ms=28,-23 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Schools have reopened in Fall 2020 amid the COVID19 pandemic, and educators are putting in overtime to make it work. Four educators speak about their experiences getting students learning again either online or in person: Superintendent Teddy Clevinger in Bell County, Texas; engineering entrepreneurship teacher Melanie Kong in Seattle, Washington; science and engineering teacher Amy Morriss in New Orleans, Louisiana; and engineering and architecture teacher Audrea Moyers in Austin, Texas. They describe their challenges and successes as educators so far this year. Related to this episode: • Music clips from Doctor Dreamchip: https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/ • Sketchup for schools: https://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-for-schools • Slack for distance learning: https://slack.com/solutions/distance-learning • Microsoft Teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software • Google Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/ • Are The Risks Of Reopening Schools Exaggerated? https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/925794511/were-the-risks-of-reopening-schools-exaggerated • New Dashboard Tracks Coronavirus Cases In Schools Across 47 States: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/915738935/new-dashboard-tracks-coronavirus-cases-in-schools-across-47-states Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You'll also be supporting projects like the Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games or The Calculator Gator. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

Model railroading is uniquely primed for doing educational outreach today, says Stacey Walthers Naffah, President of Milwaukee-based Walthers. Walthers is a major model railroading company, distributing and manufacturing products for hobbyists around the world. Stacey discusses how the industry has a big opportunity to add to K-12 education, in history, science, technology, engineering, art, and math, whether it involves wifi-controlled trains or teaching kids to properly scale down 3D models. She shares that Walthers is looking for more ideas about how to partner with educators. Related to this episode: • Walthers: https://www.walthers.com/ • Profile of Stacey Walthers Naffah: https://onmilwaukee.com/market/articles/milwaukee-talks-stacey-walthers-naffah.html • Contact Walthers with ideas: ideas@walthers.com • Family business programs, Northwestern: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/executive-education/individual-programs/executive-programs/fambiz.aspx • NSTA blog post https://www.nsta.org/resources/building-steam-model-railroads • World's Greatest Hobby nonprofit organization: http://wgh.trains.com/ • Discovery World, Milwaukee: https://www.discoveryworld.org/ • Rail transport modelling scale standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_transport_modelling_scale_standards • Walther's National Model Railroad Build-off contest: https://trains.walthers.com/hubfs/Walthers_How_To_Submit.mp4 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs, or send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.