I’ve got a friend who has done the same thing. He spent 30 years in the tech industry before getting laid off a few years ago. After fruitless efforts looking for another job programming he became a bus driver and is so much happier for it. Now he’s a couple of years from retirement and getting a pension from the state.

Alton Brown on YouTube for his recent stuff. Good Eats for his original show.

Teaches why you do stuff and not just what to do.

I know you said three songs but Ghost Love Score by Nightwish is 10 minutes long and is basically 3 songs in one

I’m so pissed about it, but I’m only one vote…

At least NYC got some more progressive candidates in.

Not just country but world now. Their K-8 program is a great entry into STEM as it is both an engineering challenge with the robot game and also the project that comes along with it (usually to design or organize around a certain challenge or theme).

FIRST also does a great job with their core values. They attempt to instill what they call Gracious Professionalism in everything that the program does. Basically, FIRST can be looked at as a program that tries to build good, competent people through the mechanism of a robot competition. In fact, the highest level award in the program is based around the impact that a team has on their community rather than how well a teams robot performs.

I might be a little biased, however, as I’ve been involved with the program (in the high school level competition) for about 17 years now. I know there are other programs out there that offer similar levels of STEM training, but none that build up people in the same fashion.

Something to keep in mind with VEX is that they just split with the organization that runs all of their competitions, so there’s likely changes coming soon. Also, the company itself has had some… Culture issues, so I personally try to avoid using their products where possible.