Introduction

Arduino. 3D printing. Wearable tech. What is all this stuff? If you are a parent, teacher, or school administrator, you may be aware of a wave that the young people in your life are riding, but you may feel like you are caught in a riptide of terminology and being towed farther and farther from land. As technologists working in this sphere, we became aware of many people who felt like you do (and we got tired of answering the same questions many times). To try to make information available more broadly than we could in person, we have written this book to answer your critical questions. What does it cost to get started with these technologies? What do I have to learn to get started? Beyond that what will I (or my kids) learn by taking ...

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