In The Press

Aug and Sept 2019
Teaching from the Inside Out with Mushroom Maestros​, Inspiring Big Wonderings with Contagion Crushers

In these blog posts from the STEM Supplies website, veteran teacher Tricia Paradis discusses the concepts of Teaching From the Inside Out and Inspiring Big Wonderings. Using examples from both the Mushroom Maestros and Contagion Crushers units she illustrates how the focus on student inquiry and cross-curricular integration in the CreositySpace units enables this teaching approach. Read post 1 here and post 2 here.

March and April, 2019
Slingerlands Elementary third graders learn about STEM with CreositySpace, Locally owned CreositySpace capitalizes on classroom curiosity 

Delmar NY - This two-part news article highlights the variety of learning that is taking place in a third grade class in Delmar, NY as they complete the packaging investigation found in the CreositySpace unit Mushroom Maestros. Read part 1 here and part 2 here.

May 21, 2017
Seattle startup founder sought a business partner, got a women's alliance instead

Seattle WA - Leslie Feinzaig had been searching for months for a business partner to join her startup, toy company Venture Kits, and was starting to feel the press of loneliness that often goes along with being a company founder. What started out as a Facebook group turned into so much more. Read about it here.

May 10, 2017
Pitches, pictures and more from the Seattle Female Founders Alliance launch party.

Seattle WA - On May 9 CreositySpace joined 8 other female founded companies on stage at the Seattle Female Founders Alliance inaugural Founders Showcase. Check out what GeekWire had to say about the event that boasted over 100 founders, investors and media from around the area here.

Dec 6, 2016
Third-graders invent, pitch products in Shark Tank-style competition

SLINGERLANDS, NY — Students from Patricia Paradis’ third-grade class at Slingerlands Elementary School will travel to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Thursday, Dec. 8, to compete against teams from Albany, Troy and Schodack in a Shark Tank-like competition where they will pitch product inventions developed over the last six weeks.....
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Nov 21, 2016
AT&T Challenge Provides Opportunity for Students to Showcase Entrepreneurial Skills

Troy, N.Y. — More than 130 elementary school students from across the Capital Region in grades 3 and 4 have been challenged to channel their creativity by developing a business or product idea as part of the Cool Kid IP Challenge powered by AT&T.
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Nov 2016
Cool Kid IP Challenge Powered by AT&T in partnership with CreositySpace and supported by Eship@RPI and Recovery Sports Grill

​Albany, NY - More than 130 elementary school students from across the Capital Region in grades 3 and 4 have been challenged to channel their creativity by developing a business or product idea as part of the Cool Kid IP Challenge powered by AT&T.  The six week-long challenge, which follows the format of the ABC hit entrepreneurial business show Shark Tank, launched on October 13.
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Spring 2016- SmartKidsNY new branding and product rollout.

Spring 2016- SmartKidsNY New Branding and Product Rollout. INTRODUCING CreositySpace, Expanded Book of Ideas, Digital Learning Modules, and GRIT Book Series!
June 30, 2015
R.P.I. grads pitch classroom development platform
Two Capital Region entrepreneurs are seeking to teach schoolchildren how to invent machines and program them with a simple development platform, funded by a recent Kickstarter campaign. Read more...
April 25, 2014
Ecovative Design's newest product encourages DIY
As Ecovative Design centers its focus on producing and selling furniture and packaging material, the Green Island, New York, company that uses mushroom technology to make biodegradable products is encouraging customers to create their own sustainable projects. Read more...
April 10, 2013
RPI students work with third graders
Students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's department of science and technology taught a module on green building to Delmar third-graders. Read more...
April 25, 2014
SmartKids NY brings businesses into schools
SmartKids NY is taking young, local scientists out of the lab and bringing them into third grade classrooms to inspire elementary school students to consider science at a time when they're envisioning what they want to be when they grow up. Read more...

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