EDUCATION

Schrader was honored at a White House ceremony last week for her efforts to encourage women and other underrepresented groups to pursue and excel at careers in engineering.

One of the PEAK’s staples is to allow children to embrace their creativity in hands-on applications.

“I think it was awesome,” high school Principal Kevin Conwell said of the contest and its outcome. Conwell envisions other schools’ teachers and administrators using Hamilton High School’s classrooms as a model.

Montana students accepted into WWAMI spend their first year at MSU, learning their basics, before heading off for their second year at UW (often called U-Dub), known as one of the nation’s top programs for primary-care physicians.

"This is truly a great honor and befitting of a great teacher and scholar such as Jakki. Jakki has always been a great professor; the Carnegie Foundation just got around to recognizing that!" Dr. Nader Shooshtari

If tech luminary Nicholas Negroponte has his way, the pale light from rugged, hand-cranked $100 laptops will illuminate homes in villages and townships throughout the developing world, and give every child on the planet a computer of their own by 2010.

What should undergraduates leave college knowing?