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  • caption: Christine Walsh began playing flute in high school. She now plays for the Boeing Company Employee Band.
    Education

    Why this Boeing test pilot keeps a flute in her toolbox

    I go to a special high school with a focus on aviation. Although I love my school, sometimes I feel like I don't get to explore my creative side. So I started asking questions: What role should art play in STEM education? And how can creativity help us to be better scientists or engineers?
  • caption: On the one month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, students at Raisbeck Aviation High School in Tukwila held a walk out. A student's sign quoted the words of Parkland student Emma Gonzalez who spoke out against current gun policies.

    Back to school in the age of school shootings

    The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our School Shootings in America podcast, we speak to teens in Seattle to see how they’ve been inspired to take action, and why this event was different than the ones before. Why now? What inspired these students to get involved in one of the nation’s most controversial policy debates, and what keeps them going?