Teaching Teenagers Engineering: How Adolescents Convinced a Satellite Company CEO in 30 Minutes
When we approached Ronak Samantray — CEO and founder of TakeMe2Space, an Indian satellite company that builds and launches real spacecraft — about collaborating with our adolescents on a CubeSat, he was not sure adolescents could do this kind of work. He said so directly. That was the right response from him. Teaching teenagers engineering […]
From Pink Tower to Satellite: Three Montessori Adolescents at the AMI Congress
Three adolescents from Blue Blocks Montessori School in Hyderabad stood on the main stage of the 30th International Montessori Congress in Mexico, in front of 1,500 attendees from the global AMI community, and walked the audience through their work — from the foundational Montessori material every one of those 1,500 trained adults had once placed […]
What Project-Based and Experiential Learning Actually Look Like in a Montessori Classroom
Months earlier, a family in Hyderabad had lost their house key. Locked out for three or four hours, they had to find an alternative way in. Their son watched the whole thing. “It formed some impressions in his mind,” the father told us at our annual school event, Explore Montessori 2025, held on 29 November […]
Why Educational Programs That Cannot Fail Are Not Educational
For most school innovation programs, the honest answer is no. It is structured by deadlines, by adult oversight, by pre-screened material lists, by exhibition formats designed for parental approval — to ensure that what the children produce is presentable. The risk of real failure has been engineered out before the children begin. An educational program […]