Steve Krak, meets an Egyptian STEMer in a university near his house in USA

Steve Krak , previous Capstone Head in STEM unit and an evaluator of the first Exihibtion in Menofia STEM School, meets an Egyptian STEMer in a university near his house in USA and writes a post about this meeting saying :

Day made. This is Mohamed. He is a Denison University sophomore that, I learned only last week, graduated from the first of our Egypt STEM Schools. We have a mutual friend, another Denison student, who connected the dots and made the introduction. I can’t tell you how excited I was to meet Mohamed and hear his story (we’re not done yet). I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t emotional about it after pouring heart and soul into that project for four years. I have a new portal to his network of Egypt STEM School grads, but I love having one right here, just three miles from home.

Day made.
For those who may not know, I now work part-time for Denison University as coordinator of a resource for students called the Red Frame Lab. I run design workshops, facilitate design sessions and mentor students in design processes to tear problems apart and get at better solutions systematically. It’s not a class but a resource available to anyone, any time. We’ve done a ton in our first semester and I’m loving it. To close that loop, one of the keys to the Egypt STEM schools was the use of design processes in cooperation with the locals so they owned the design of the schools and the incorporation of design processes in the curriculum itself for students to master. So yeah, Mohamed kicked butt when he came here and got to his first Denison projects that needed a well organized process and poster presentation. But I’m not biased.
That second pic is one I coincidentally took when Mohamed was in 11th Grade during his Capstone team’s final presentation. He’s on the right … having no idea he’d be studying here in 2018, or that he’d be a calculus tutor, Arabic TA, a Leadership Fellow, volunteering in our community and a pre-med major. Yeah … I’m a little proud.

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