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No Great Idea Left Behind: ProjectBoard Aims To Expand the Playing Field in STEM

The self-serve version of ProjectBoard makes it easy to develop and document project work and then showcase it virtually to private or public communities.

Most engineers start out young: whether that means building bridges and dams in the backyard using sticks and scrap wood, or taking apart a radio or a toaster and (hopefully) putting them back together again just to see how they work. For many, the love of all things science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is a lifelong commitment—from the classroom to the boardroom.

If you’re over 30 and working in STEM, the odds are good that somewhere in your house (or your parents’ house) is a bin filled with old school projects: essays, lab notes, presentation boards—all the breadcrumbs that lead from your earliest days as a budding engineer or scientist right up to graduation and beyond. Depending on how far you go, that might include newspaper clippings and—who knows—maybe a patent or two as well. Anyone who sits down with all this stuff could piece together a lot about you and your career. Of course, they’d have to find it first.

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