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Morning, morning.

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Good morning. How are you? Good
morning. Good morning, my love.

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Good morning, my love. Are you
bringing snowballs?

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getting ready for our chance.

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said, hear me say.

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I code, I count, I test, I try.

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Kids come into the world asking
questions and having a curious

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mind and curious spirit,

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and it's our job to help give
them the tools to use that

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creativity and that curiosity.

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Elementary school is where all
of the foundational skills come

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in.

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They graduate with a toolkit of
not only being able to read and

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do math fluently, but also
knowing how to code,

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knowing how to engage with
robotics,

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knowing how to solve meaningful
problems.

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My name is Adrian Reiner.

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I'm the proud principal of PS
241, STEM Institute of Manhattan.

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We really weave stem into
everything we do.

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Our ultimate goal for our
children is that we graduated students

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who were curious learners,

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students who are joyful
collaborators,

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and students who are creative
engineers.

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Jobs are changing, careers are
changing.

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It's important for, especially
with the advancement of AI,

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you have to have a strong
fundamental understanding of STEM,

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and I think it's fun. Hello
friends,

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today we're going to be learning
about the amazing playground

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and how engineers build
playgrounds.

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So what we're gonna be able to
learn is how to understand what a

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problem is.

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We're also gonna design a
solution using the engineering steps

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of think, draw, build, and test.
Look, it's in slot slot A A.

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So we go beyond just exposing
kids to STEM in hopes that it'll

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spark the interest for a career
later in the sense that it's

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connected to our ELA curriculum.

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Our social studies,

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black studies curriculum so that
it's meaningful.

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My mother wakes me. Gigi, my
princess, it is time to get up.

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We must collect the water as
part of our black studies unit,

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we read a story,

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and it was actually a true story
about a little girl that grew

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up in Africa and built a well so
that they can access water

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closer to the village.

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We've tied it into our ELA unit
as a transdisciplinary study.

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You see all of these people,

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they all come from different
places and does this water look

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clean? Yeah. Can we drink the
water like that? No.

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Do you think they can drink the
water like that?

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We are going to do an experiment
so that we can see what

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happened.

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I We want to make sure that our
kids see themselves as engineers

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and scientists and technologists
just exactly the way they are.

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I think STEM is often portrayed
as something that only super

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highly educated people do in
these like pristine labs with white

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coats, and that's not what STEM
is.

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Can you help us walk us through
it.

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So that would be 21 remainder.

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What a STEM student would be is
like they work hard,

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they work together,

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they listen to each other
because like if we work hard,

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we accomplish more things. So
building the skill of like,

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it's OK if I get it wrong the
first time,

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it's OK if I need to keep
productively struggling and pushing

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through.

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We want for kids to feel like
they're empowered to find their

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own answers to the questions
rather than this kind of old school

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idea of like I'm the teacher,

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so I'm the holder of all the
answers.

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Ultimately kids want to work
hard and take on challenges as long

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as there's meaning connected to
what they're doing.

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And as long as it's in the
context of a problem that means

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something in their lives or in
their community.

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I think this work is really
important because we want to engage

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our kids and tap into those
interests at an early age and I feel

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that if families are doing that
at home and we're doing it in

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school,

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we can have a future of
engineers and astronauts and scientists.

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Science is like the world to me
because it's creative,

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experiments come in our life and
experience actually can help

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our life.

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Because at the end,

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what could be better than being
at a STEM school and engaging in

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these kinds of powerful
experiences with our children.