TEI 025: Enabling Future Innovation Leaders

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you episode
025 of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad
McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved
in developing and managing products become more successful, grow
their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. Our Guest: This
episode is different from others and well worth listening to. 
It is the story about the class I helped to organize for eight
students who were 9-12 years of age. As I normally teach university
graduate courses, this was an entirely new realm for me. We called
the class FIL – Future Innovation Leaders. The premise for the
class was seeing the connection between the digital world and the
physical world. For example, creating a computer program that
controlled the actions of a robot, or making a 3D model in software
and being able to touch the model and hand it to friends after 3D
printing it. We met for 3 hours once a week for eight weeks. The
class was constructed around three piece: robotics, 3D design and
printing, and communications.