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How to Use this Site

This Website provides short, topic-driven videos. These videos are organized into four different content categories based on the following themes:

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

EDUCATION

ENVIRONMENT & STEM

CIVIL SOCIETY

You can access each video by clicking on its image or title. All videos are available for download. Each video comes with suggested discussion questions. These discussion questions are also available for download, as a Word Document or as a PDF.

Each video can be used individually but we encourage you to see them in their context, as part of a series.

Entrepreneurship

3-D Printing for the Body Thumbnail

Alexis Lewis’s Innovation Mission Thumbnail

Palmer Lucky’s Virtual Reality Revolution Thumbnail

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Thumbnail

Project Loon Thumbnail

Elon Musk’s Journey to Mars Thumbnail

Melting Electronics Thumbnail

Education

Saumil Bandyopadhyay’s Nanoscale Infrared Detector Thumbnail

Adam Steltzner Looks Beyond Mars Thumbnail

Smithsonian's Climate Change Statement Thumbnail

Bill Morrison’s masterpiece of found footage Thumbnail

A Passionate Educator Thumbnail

Is Human Evolution Over? Thumbnail

Voice of Witness Thumbnail

Expanding College Opportunities Thumbnail

Environment & Stem

Can Ocean Optimism Save our Seas? Thumbnail

What is the Future of Nature? Thumbnail

Pardis Sabeti's New Look at Infectious Disease Thumbnail

Hugh Herr’s Bionic Future Thumbnail

Why Scan a 3-D Dinosaur? Thumbnail

Visualizing One Earth Thumbnail

Can We Solve Climate Change? Thumbnail

Jack Andraka's Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough Thumbnail

Civil Society

How to Grow a Human Arm in a Lab Thumbnail

Saving the Coral Reef One Stitch at a Time Thumbnail

Teaching Coding, Empowering Girls Thumbnail

Space Shuttle Discovery's Biggest Accomplishments Thumbnail

Music’s Melting Pot Thumbnail

What Is Next in Space Exploration? Thumbnail

The Legal Crusader Thumbnail

Big Data to Big History Thumbnail