I go to a lot of conferences. The Common Ground conference in Baltimore is hands down one of my favorites. The conference is for educators who want to think about how to provide a great learning experience for kids in the 21st century. I provided graphic recording a couple of years ago when the conference [...]

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The 2nd annual NASA Space Apps Challenge is coming up April 20-21, 2013! No matter where you live you can participate. And if you are in one of 75 cities around the world, you can join other developers, designers, and space enthusiasts in person to work on projects to improve life on Earth and in [...]

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I was honored to lead a visual communication excercise at TEDxTheCollegeOfWooster, as well as to have the opportunity to visually synthesize the ideas swirling around the room during the excellent presentations. Congrats to event producer, College of Wooster student Christina Haupt, and all the other folks who pitched in to create a magical event. The [...]

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Show-n-Tell 7 rocked with Rebecca Harris of the Chatham Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship talked about making it as an entrepreneur, Anne Marie Toccket, Nick Fedorek, and Katherine Camp gave an update on the Pittsburgh Hostel Project, and Derek Minto shared his journey to becoming a comedian and explained how a loved one did something very [...]

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Want to Rock the Whiteboard? Listen to what other people have to say about how I helped them develop their visual thinking skills to help them rock. “Very helpful. During the session we found creative solutions to the challenges posed by the path we chose. It was great!” Carlos Guestrin, Co-founder, Flashgroup Armed with a [...]

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The United States Federal Government is without a doubt the most powerful organization on the planet. Between the Department of Defense, the Social Security Administration, the Medicare System, and the other myriad departments that comprise the U.S. Government, US taxpayers spent 3.630 trillion (That’s $3,630,000,000,000,000) for fiscal year 2011 to provide a myriad of services.The [...]

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One of the things I love most about what I do, is the opportunity I get to hear about the cutting edge of so many fields. Last week in Boston, I got to peek into the world of pharmaceutical clinical trials, which are an integral part of the drug development process. Clinical trials are tremendously [...]

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