What would your teenage self think of your adult life now? I know that’s a question many of us have pondered. I’ve often seen messages “to my younger self”: what people would tell their high school-age selves if they could send messages back in time. Imagine this scenario: what if, fifteen ...

Today is the day: Bots High — A Documentary on High School Combat Robots screens today on the net and around the country. Check out their free screening page for more information about screenings, and to see if one is scheduled near you. I’ve received an advanced copy of the DVD ...

This year our family hits an important milestone. One that as a Dad (Geek- or non-) you both love and hate. The day your first child graduates high school. We’re only a few days from the big day, and part of my absence from GeekDad the last couple weeks (besides an ...

Neal Bascomb’s The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts offers an insider account of Dean Kamen’s famous robotics competition for high schoolers. (See James Kelly’s review on GeekDad earlier today.) Focusing on the award-winning Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy Penguineers, and their ...

In May of 1996, a group of students at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in California put together a musical based on Star Wars (Episode IV) and performed it for a three-night run. The production featured songs with lyrics (derived from the movie, of course) by the students, set to well-known ...

Dear Mr. Dad: Help! Our son is a high school junior, but instead of planning for college, he says he wants to make a career out of playing drums in a band! He’s a talented musician, and he and his buddies play gigs at community events, but he can’...

Breast-Feeding May Lower Women’s Risk for Type 2 Diabetes: Women’s breasts are like fountains of youth, make sure your kids get a sip for everybody’s sake. (Businessweek) Clear Kids With Concussions Before Sports: “…young athletes take longer to recover than college and professional athletes…” (Reuters) Weight Loss Cuts Risk Of Pregnancy Complication: ...

For some reason, I’ve come to associate Jane Yolen with fairy tales, although she’s written a lot more than that. She’s the author of the How Do Dinosaurs… series of picture books, the Commander Toad series for young readers, fiction for adults, and seemingly everything in between. However, Foiled is ...

I may not have had the fanciest car or the spiffiest wardrobe, my lovely wife and children weren’t there to put on display, but at my recent 25th High School reunion there was one thing I had that screamed success and wrung envy from my former classmates; the geekiest, slickest, ...

When I was young, as I was in middle school I started to notice that I would get headaches and that my eyes were bothering me. Not really know what was going on my parents decided to ...