I’m not a big STEM education fetishist, but here’s an interesting Christmas list of kids’ “books for budding engineers” from the Engineering department of University College London via the Four Short Links email list.
The election is over, but before getting to who won I thought I’d share two proposals to acknowledge the non-winners both in the WCCUSD BOE and also at the county level. I sent them as letters to the WCCUSD BOE.
There are 7 people running for school board and 2 will be elected. My first choice, Tom Panas, is easy. My problem is deciding on the second candidate.
Updated 11/8
Here’s a smorgasbord of links for the 2016 West Contra Costa Unified School District school board election: entries in Ballotpedia and Voters’ Edge, endorsement editorials, newspaper articles, answered questionnaires, and candidate forum recordings.
I am going to try a feature so others can state why they would like to vote for a particular candidate. I will then post the statements as part of a series of posts. Here are the rules: