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WHAT works attelle is the worlds largest independent nonprofit research and development organization. It produces products and services for government consumer industrial energy environmental health pharmaceutical and national security uses. Its mission also includes a strong commitment to community development and education particularly science technology engineering and mathematics STEM programs. Aimee Kennedy the vice president of Education STEM Learning and Philanthropy at Battelle in Columbus Ohio has a background in STEM education. She and Battelle want to demystify what STEM professionals do and pull back the curtain to see how STEM education works and why it is essential to our future. She spoke at the launch of the DC STEM Network hosted by the Carnegie Academy for Science Education. It is part of similar programs in other states led by Battelle. Kennedy emphasizes that STEM educators need to encourage students to dream beyond what is currently possible like Battelles innovators. One essential ingredient is to create classrooms where mistakes are a welcome and necessary learning tool. Putting kids in front of a computer does not make a school a STEM school she emphasizes technology in and of itself is not enough. What Works in The Private Sector STEM Partnerships Battelle in collaboration with surgeons and others conducted a decade-long project to assist the paralyzed. It serves as a model for STEM educators and students for what can be accomplished with this education. In the Battelle system a chip monitors the brain activity relays it to a computer with software which translates that activity to a language that muscles can understand to open and close the hand. The first test of the system was for a 19-year-old who was paralyzed from an accident. Image courtesy Battelle