As a midwesterner, I constantly hear this refrain but did not grow up this way myself and don't see much of it in how my students are being raised. Different wo

As a midwesterner, I constantly hear this refrain but did not grow up this way myself and don't see much of it in how my students are being raised. Different worlds perhaps. That said, I also didn't have parents that knew how to support my interest in geeky stuff and would have loved a world for building gadgets. Take a look at Victor's premise. It's about expanding our capabilities for thinking about engineering and the world, not "tree fort simulator".