First Grade’s Five Secrets To Success In Taiwan

The younger kid just cleared first grade, except for her centimeter-thick stack of summer vacation homework due upon return to campus. In case that sounds harsh for a 7-year-old, consider that parents do much of their children’s homework in Taiwan, or at least supervise it. Always enlist family support rather than forging ahead yourself into turbid tasks, that’s one lesson about life in Taiwan that children learn in elementary school along with basic math and language. Here are first grade’s five more persuasive lessons on life-long survival:

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MegaBots is trying to turn a giant fighting robot into a business like NASCAR


MegaBots is trying to turn a giant fighting robot into a business like NASCAR
What the founders of MegaBots really wanted to do was live out their childhood fantasies, when they fell in love with video games like the MechWarrior series. So they built a robot that they could get into and fight another robot with. And they set themselves the goal of turning that into a business.

July 26, 2015 at 07:33PM
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